[Sca-cooks] freezing butter

[Mark Hendershott]

At 09:26 PM 12/21/2005, you wrote:

> > Somewhat related question.  I acquired a reprint cookbook originally
> > published in 1939.  Some of the recipes for baked goods say to wash
> > and dry the butter.  Is this significant?  Maybe 1939 butter
> > (Swedish butter as it happens) needed cleaning?
> >
> > Simon Sinneghe
> > Briaroak, Summits, An Tir
> >
>
>Washing butter is a standard part of the butter making process, or should be,
>as is letting it dry once you've washed it. In modern terminology, it would
>be a rinse- trust me, you don't use soap ;-)
>
>Phlip
>_______________________________________________
Yeah, I was aware of that.  I was wondering why wash presumably 
storebought butter.

Simon