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KingAHolic

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DiO'Bolic

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My mother lived with her aunt in the late 40's & early 50's for some time while growing up in Ireland, after her father remarried to the wicked witch of the east, and the kids were brought back from the orphanage. Her aunt was a country girl at heart and had cows and chickens, and sold butter and eggs in the village. Her aunt’s husband hated that she did it as he was the village doctor and didn’t think it was something a doctor’s wife should be doing, but the women on my mother’s side are pigheaded. My mother relayed the story of how, once, a mouse had gotten into the butter churn, and all the butter that day had mouse pieces and hair in it. Her aunt made my mother pick out all the mouse pieces so the butter still could be sold as she refused to let it go to waste. It was a lovely pale shade of pick which her aunt told the customers is was a new recipe she tried.
 

Dana Jean

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My mother lived with her aunt in the late 40's & early 50's for some time while growing up in Ireland, after her father remarried to the wicked witch of the east, and the kids were brought back from the orphanage. Her aunt was a country girl at heart and had cows and chickens, and sold butter and eggs in the village. Her aunt’s husband hated that she did it as he was the village doctor and didn’t think it was something a doctor’s wife should be doing, but the women on my mother’s side are pigheaded. My mother relayed the story of how, once, a mouse had gotten into the butter churn, and all the butter that day had mouse pieces and hair in it. Her aunt made my mother pick out all the mouse pieces so the butter still could be sold as she refused to let it go to waste. It was a lovely pale shade of pick which her aunt told the customers is was a new recipe she tried.
OH. MY. GOD.

I broke out in a cold mousey sweat reading that.
 

Grandpa

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I've had people tell me that they can most definitely tell if their food was cooked with butter or margarine, or what types of each, and.... yeah, well I can't. They have a better dairy palate than I, I guess.

I was told I had to use real butter, unsalted, for some recipe. So I bought some. It's fine, but the supply is dwindling down slowly. It cost enough that I only use it for special dishes when a small increment of taste (to someone other than me) might matter.

Hey, we also liked the Mexican Parkay commercial that ran a few decades ago.
 

Neesy

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I've had people tell me that they can most definitely tell if their food was cooked with butter or margarine, or what types of each, and.... yeah, well I can't. They have a better dairy palate than I, I guess.

I was told I had to use real butter, unsalted, for some recipe. So I bought some. It's fine, but the supply is dwindling down slowly. It cost enough that I only use it for special dishes when a small increment of taste (to someone other than me) might matter.

Hey, we also liked the Mexican Parkay commercial that ran a few decades ago.
This has always puzzled me about some recipes that call for unsalted butter, then tell you to add 1/2 tsp of salt as well - what is the difference really?

I bake and I am pretty good at it after so many years (well, actually right from the beginning) and I know how important it is to measure accurately with baking.

So why say to use unsalted butter and then add a bit of salt as one of the ingredients, I wonder?
 

Spideyman

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This has always puzzled me about some recipes that call for unsalted butter, then tell you to add 1/2 tsp of salt as well - what is the difference really?

I bake and I am pretty good at it after so many years (well, actually right from the beginning) and I know how important it is to measure accurately with baking.

So why say to use unsalted butter and then add a bit of salt as one of the ingredients, I wonder?
Salt content in salted butter can vary. When using unsalted and then the recipe calling to use salt, you can adjust to your personal taste.
When baking bread, salt can stop/ slow down the activity of the yeast and the salt is usually added in a specific order.