Who is right, me or DH? Crucial butter question!

[JaneS]

I am about to make hot cross buns and DH is going out to get some ingredients. We need butter, but are currently (no, I'm not going there ...) arguing terminology.

I say it's a 'pat of butter'; DH says the correct term for a block of butter is a 'brick'. WTF?

Please reassure me that butter comes in pats, not 'bricks'?!

Hope you're feeling the importance of this one, btw ...

[EllenJane1]

Glad I could help. Just call me Claire Rayner.

[SlightlyScrambled]

You said it yourself in the OP. A block of butter.

And a little bit is a knob. [bugrin]

[ItsallabouttheBunnyBunnyBunny]

It's a pat. Traditionally, butter was shaped by using small wooden paddles, which pat the butter into the right size/shape.

It's definitely a pat.

[GypsyMoth]

this thread should go alongside the butter dish thread,which i think,is in classics,or maybe not

[nomorepets]

if you were buying butter its just butter

[EllenJane1]

But that's no fun, nomorepets.

[BabyDubsEverywhere]

You are all so mixed up, bless you. 'Tis okay, BabyDubs is here to put you all straight:

Butter comes in BLOCKS, TUBS, or KNOBS, obviously dependant on size, (knob small packet or good size bit for the pan) or packaging (Tub come in a tub, Block in foil)

Other than that:
Its MARSH MELLOWS (yes, even though its spelt mAllow its still pronouced mEllow) or FLUMP.
And its MOM, spelt and pronounced MOM never MUM.

No Im not american I'm from the West Midlands.

[JaneS]

Awww, what with BabyDubs, Claire Rayer's alter ego and Bunny, I feel as if Ive stumbled into an unusually well-informed WI meeting all set to train me out of my foolish young ways and into Decent Womanhood. With butter.

(Oh dear, somehow I'm not sure that image struck quite the wholesome note I was going for, did it?)

[Journey]

Pat of butter.

[GypsyMoth]

and spreadable butter,which comes in tubs,dont forget that kind!!

[EllenJane1]

Decent Womanhood! With (spreadable) butter! [bugrin]

[CareyFakes]

I call it a Block of butter, never heard of Pat of butter.

Those little butters in restaurants are called 'That little butter packet' in our company lol I'm might call them pat's now. Oi, Pat, get on my fucking roll.

[gordyslovesheep]

it's just butter surely - as in 'can you remember to buy some butter'

[JaneS]

Tiffany, don't disappoint me now: spreadable butter is not real butter, it's strange and wrong.

[WinterOfOurDiscountTents]

its a pound of butter! Or a block. A pat is, as said, a small individual portion.

So you're both wrong. [bugrin]

[EllenJane1]

I've always been dubious of anything that comes from cows and is called a pat.

[JaneS]

gordy, if only I'd started out with such simplicity I would be a happy woman, but having got into an argument about vocabulary with DH I now just want to be Right. You can understand that can't you?

[gordyslovesheep]

tell him to get Flora

[gordyslovesheep]

oh but yes - you are right - that goes without saying ;)

[JaneS]

Winter, whatever it is, it aint a pound. It's about 250 grams, as someone pointed out.

Ellen .... thanks for that image! I think you're lowering the tone of my deeply intellectual quest now.

[JaneS]

Flora?!

Not bloody likely.

Thanks for saying I'm right gordy, I'll read him selected bits of this thread and that's in.

[stream]

The wooden hands they used to use to make butter are called butter pats, so butter was also called a pat of butter.

[lubeybooby]

Block or pack

[WinterOfOurDiscountTents]

Well I buy the larger pack of butter, which weighs 454grams, which is....a pound!
You're buying 225gr then, which is just about half a pound.

[JaneS]

Ahh, thanks stream, and thanks winter. I didn't know you could buy that much butter all at once ... wow! You must bake a lot.

I think he has tacitly admitted defeat, by the way.

MN hive mind at its finest, thanks all! [winkk]