[Sca-cooks] Honey Butter

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Gretchen Beck wrote:

> (This should be a reply, but I accidentally deleted the original message).
>
> About resturants serving honey butter in the late 1960s -- I got to
> thinking, back in the mid-60s, when I was a Brownie, wasn't honey butter a
> long time girl scout tradition?  I did a google book search and found this:
>
> Cooking out-of-doors: fire building, outdoor kitchens, cookout hikes, food
> ...‎ - Page 70
> by Girl Scouts of the United States of America - Outdoor cookery - 1946 -
> 123 pages
>
> Honey Butter Vi lb. butter 1 pt. honey Cream butter, warm honey and beat it 
> until clear and creamy. Combine butter and honey and beat until well mixed.
> ...
> 
> So, I'm thinking that honey butter may be something picked up from scouting
> rather than imitating resturant food. (Or, perhaps it came from both either
> separately or individually)
>
> toodles, margaret

According to Amazon, Fabulous Feasts was published in 1976. Does it 
contain a recipe? Does honey butter show up at SCA feasts before then?

Margaret FitzWilliam, who does not own a copy