Category: Butters
Butters
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Clarified Butters
Read moreClarified butter is milk fat rendered from butter to separate the milk solids and water from the butterfat.[1] Typically, it is produced by melting butter and allowing the components to separate by density. The water evaporates, some solids float to the surface and are skimmed off, and the remainder of the milk solids sink to …
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Cultured Butters
Read moreCultured butter is typically created by adding live bacteria (cultures) to the butter before it’s churned, versus regular butter which is cream that just goes straight to the churning machine. The addition of the cultures does several things: Causes the butter to taste slightly tangier, due to additional lactic acid Results in a higher-fat product, …
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Margarines
Read moreMargarine is a generic term for identifying dietary fats of vegetable origin used in place of butter. Its name derives from the discovery of “marginal acid” by Michel Eugène Chevreul, in 1813, who thought he had discovered one of the three fatty acids that formed animal fats, but, in 1853, it was discovered that that …
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Organic Butters
Read moreOrganic butter is made with organic milk. Health nuts swear by the grass-fed stuff, even blending it into cups of hot coffee, because it is supposedly filled with more Omega 3s than traditional butter—but the science is still out on that one. The difference between organic butter and non-organic butter is just that organic cream …