[Sca-cooks] To oil or not to oil?

[Volker Bach]

Am Montag, 3. Oktober 2005 20:16 schrieb otsisto:

> What I am a bit confused about is how the container will be used. If this
> is a butter mold, from my experience, the butter is molded, chilled and
> removed with the mold being washed out after molding. Is this a different
> type of butter mold where you store the butter in the mold?
> I have seen a 1700 wood butter mold that you store the butter in where an
> inner press with the design on it inserted so that after meals the press
> would push down the butter to recreate the pattern for the next meal. I was
> told that the oil from the butter conditioned the inside and the outside
> was coated in bee's wax.

This one is for pressing in, then unmolding, so it isn't used for storing the 
butter for any length of time.  I was just concerned that the butter might 
stick to unoiled wood, and that the wood might split when drying out. I 
usually oil or wax all wooden implements out of habit.

Giano


	

	
		
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