SC -Don't Like Chocolate?!?

[Laura C. Minnick]

Hey, Balthazar, what's a "knob" of butter? I've always wondered, since I
have a few British Isles cookbooks, and the term is frequently used.
I've never seen it mentioned in any equivalency charts or anything....
- --Maire

CBlackwill at aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 4/29/00 3:45:46 PM Pacific Daylight Time, troy at asan.com
> writes:
> 
> > but generally lose the momentum when
> >  > confronted with a tantalizing piece of cheese wrapped in bacon and deep
> > fried
> >  > in fat.  Num Num!
> >  >
> >  > Balthazar of Blackmoor
> >
> >  Hey, don't get me wrong. I love all the components therein, and if
> >  sufficiently hungry could cram down almost two ounces of the lipidinous
> >  delights. It's just, well, too much of a good thing. Kinda like eating a
> >  stick of butter.
> 
> Um...guilty.  I'm not proud of it, but I do have a rather profound fondness
> for unsalted butter.  One knob for the sauce, and one for the Chef...
> 
> >
> >  Another consideration is what you eat this with... maybe with a good
> >  salad of, say, watercress, endive and Boston lettuce, maybe a
> >  mushroom-stock vinaigrette (sherry vinegar, ooh baby!), I'd have less of
> >  a problem than with the dish showing up as an accompaniment to a shell
> >  steak.
> 
> Agreed.  Your dinner shouldn't be served with a complementary "medic alert"
> bracelet.... Nor should your waiter be seen warming up the defibrulator in
> the service alley...
> 
> Balthazar of Blackmoor
> 
> Words are Trains for moving past what really has no Name.
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