Name: Mixture for Salting Butter
Ingredients: ½ pound fine salt; ¼ pound pulverized loaf sugar

Mixture for Salting Butter

Ingredients

½ pound fine salt
¼ pound pulverized loaf sugar

Directions

Mix the salt and sugar together well.
Add 1 ounce of the mixture to every pound of butter to keep it sweet for winter use.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Fine salt: Preserves the butter and keeps it from spoiling, and adds savory flavor.
Pulverized loaf sugar: Adds a mild sweetness that balances the salt's sharpness in the butter.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.