SC - Butter - yet again
Bonne of Traquair
oftraquair at hotmail.com
Mon Dec 21 09:54:31 PST 1998
I discovered that our local Wholefoods Grocery is now carrying a locally
produced cultured butter from Maple Valley Farms in Hillsborough, NC.
$3.47 per pound. My husband tasted it and made a happy happy face and
started searching for stuff to put it on. "Aren't you going to bake
bread today?" he whimpered. He'd never said much about american butter
tasting bland, evidently it bothered him more than he let on.
I thought the butter was intersting, but if it continues to sour as it
waits in the fridge, I can see it reaching a point at which I wouldn't
like it. But I'm sure he will, rotten cheese eater that he is, if he
doesn't finish it all before that happens. I may buy him another pound
of it for Christmas. (Genevia, I could bring some to an event we are
both at if you are curious to try it. Or I'll give you directions to
the Wellsprings so you can try to stop at one going or coming from an
event. The stores in Raleigh and Chapel Hill are minutes off Interstate
40, the one in Durham is not far from I-85/I-70.)
Bonne, she with the happy husband.
>Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 10:40:57 -0700
>To: sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG
>From: Roy Wessel <rwessel at xpert.net>
>Subject: SC - Butter - yet again
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG
>
>Some time back Lord Ras and Lady Helen wrote about cultured butter as
being
>closer to what was used in Period than modern sweet cream butter. The
>distinction, if I recall correctly, was that the cultured butter is
made
>from cream that is allowed to ferment for a few hours before churning.
>Also, it contains less water.
>
>Following their advice, I purchased some Organic Valley Unsalted
Cultured
>Sweet Cream (sic) Butter. It is indeed delicious, although rather
>expensive. It is also hard to get because of the current shortage of
cream.
>Give it a try, though, if you can find it in your local health food
store or
>specialty shop.
>
>Robin Vinehall
>
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