If I buy really nice butter

[DirtyDancing]

I can't stop eating it. I could live off really nice bread and butter. I am going to have to buy some not very nice butter so I am less tempted! I think it's my favourite thing to eat.

Anyone else adore good butter!

Oh, you people are my people. Sometimes I add extra salt to my butter.

Does anyone here like crackers with just butter?? 🤤

Ooooh. This thread is like all of Ina Garten's programmes rolled into one. Lot's of good budder .

YY to ginger cake with butter.

Crumpets were made for butter! But one of my favourites is toasted brioche spread with salty butter topped with chocolate spread.
Or try plain chocolate digestive biscuits spread with salty butter and topped with a blue cheese eg Gorgonzola.

Lurpak garlic butter is a game changer. Instant garlic bread!
Also lush stirred into pasta or on a baked potato.

@Kikkomam

I eat a very low carb high fat diet, I buy low carb rolls from an online company and eat one a day absolutely slathered with Kerrygold.

@Kikkomam who’s your low carb bread supplier/hook up? I’ve been looking for a good source lately.

@MrsClatterbuck Abernethy butter isn't Irish. It's from Northern Ireland.

Greetings, tribe!
Now, salted butter has its place (on ginger cake, yes, and also on banana bread) but for me as a complete butter tart, it's got to be French unpasteurised, unsalted butter made with cream that's been ripened.
Preferably spread on home-made soda bread (which is already slightly salty so you don't need any more)
Impossible to get in this country where we have a fear of the unpasteurised, but it can be found in France in some supermarkets or cheese shops. It has a distinct tang already, it doesn't need salt.
Can I also recommend an Italian butter called Parmareggio, sold by Ocado. It's almost white and like solid cream. Reassuringly expensive, as they say.
Clotted cream is also, er, quite nice spread on cake, I find. DS calls it 'dessert butter.'
And i have Nigella to thank for introducing me to chocolate loaf cake slices spread with slabs of cream cheese.
Fortunately I don't have a dairy intolerance.

Unsalted President on Sourdough for me.

But now going to try the French unpasteurised one and Abernethy . Where is is available, please?

@DirtyDancing kilner have a cute butter churned if you need a random gift for someone in your house?! We made it over lockdown & was very easy with this gadget-think I got it new on eBay for about £10

I eat really nice salted welsh butter. Gotta be proper butter. DH and DD are weirdos and eat clover. DS is with me on the proper butter.

Kept in cupboard in butter dish so always nice n spreadable.

I have found my people.

Hurah for all the Butter Lovers out there. I am not alone, I will not be down grading my butter but embracing it (by adding President with salt crystals to me weekly shop).

[quote buckeejit]@DirtyDancing kilner have a cute butter churned if you need a random gift for someone in your house?! We made it over lockdown & was very easy with this gadget-think I got it new on eBay for about £10[/quote]
Singing: all I want for Christmas is my own butter churned.. my husband has added it to the list!

@Heruka

Mmmmmmm kerrygold on crusty white bread…

I will have any butter, not fussy, DH loves Kerrygold, his absolute favourite. Having some delivered with our online shopping today.

dc sometimes accidentially make butter when whipping cream...

Waitrose own brand salted butter is very good too.

When I was young in Glasgow - a long time ago there was a 'dairy' below our flat - just a small shop really selling butter, cheese, cold meats, bacon etc. Our butter was taken from a huge slab ( salted or unsalted and shaped between two paddles), and was the best. Scottish morning rolls with butter were unbeatable. Alternatively we had packaged Finnish butter, Midnight Sun I think it was called.

@MrsArchchancellorRidcully

I eat really nice salted welsh butter. Gotta be proper butter. DH and DD are weirdos and eat clover. DS is with me on the proper butter.

Kept in cupboard in butter dish so always nice n spreadable.

100% yes to keeping it in the cupboard so it is always nice and spreadable.

The last time I saw butter being sold from a huge slab was in Glasgow in about 1977.
We were staying on the West Road near a hotel called The Pond, and were wandering the nearby streets on our way to catch an underground train, when I spotted a wonderful grocery shop.
Unable to resist the mound of golden butter, we watched as our butter was deftly shaped into a round with wooden paddles, and stamped with the shop’s name, then neatly parcelled up for us.
A real delight to watch, and a joy to buy. It brought back happy childhood memories for me, as many places used to sell butter that way, though not all as artistically done as that Glasgow west end shop.

My MIL is American and she goes to town (butter-town?) when she visits us in the UK as they don't have the salty butters in the US apparently, or at least not the kind we have. She's especially fond of the M&S salted butter with salt crystals in. Watching her and DH attack a tiger loaf and butter is, frankly, awe-inspiring.

DH says his autobiography will be called Love & Butter

@talkalarm

Yes you now have to recommend really good butter brands ...

Nothing mass produced is anywhere near as good as butter you can get from a farm-shop/market

I have been watching home butter making videos all morning. It's going to happen people... watch this space! I'm fascinated by the process of rinsing it with cold water, after churning and squashing it into shape. Holding butter in my hands.. what happens if I just eat it?!

@Redshoeblueshoe

Tractor why don't you just cut off a small chunk and put it in the fridge ? It keeps for ages. Does anyone else put it on Jamaican ginger cake ? My DH thinks it's strange. I love it. I love the Aldi and Lidl West country butters. Extra salty

Yes! I don't buy it very often but it has to have butter on it otherwise it's too dry.

I wished I hadn't clicked on this thread...

@EdgeOfTheSky

Unsalted President on Sourdough for me.

But now going to try the French unpasteurised one and Abernethy . Where is is available, please?

Sainsbury's and Waitrose sell this, which is (IMO) the best butter I've found widely available in the UK.

@RedCarsGoFaster

I might be someone who hides the good butter from DH as he's a philistines and doesn't treat it with the care it deserves.

Bloody toast crumbs in expensive butter? Off with his head!

Oh don't! DH considers any 'spread' to be butter. Including the horrible 'I can't believe it's not butter' stuff. I say 'get some butter' when he goes to the shop and he comes home with that? No!!!

It's enough to make me LTB really isn't it.

I like Morrisons Best Brittany Butter with salt, the one in the black wrapper. It's lovely. On fresh white bread. Mmmmm