[Sca-cooks] salt in butter

[Carole Smith]

Even today in Sweden you can buy butter (and margerine) with extra salt from the grocery store.  Before you ask, no I didn't try any.
   
  Cordelia Toser

Volker Bach <carlton_bach at yahoo.de> wrote:
    Am Donnerstag, 22. Dezember 2005 06:21 schrieb Mark Hendershott:
> 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?

I know of 'washing' butter in earlier times, when it basically means agitating 
the butter in/under cold water. The point was to get the salt out that was 
added to preserve it. I don't know if that was still an issue in Sweden in 
'39, but salted butter is still popular in Scandinavia and if they are sweet 
baked goods, that makes sense. 

Giano



		
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