BUTTER is the business

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Thanks to Highfields I have rediscovered the joy of butter this weekend. Toast is DELICIOUS with butter instead of flora on it. Am thinking cupcakes will be twice as nice.

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Will literally every butter thread from now on turn into this?🙄

Btw. Damn your salted butter😂 I never knew it before I came here and I made a dessert with it! You can imagine how that went down😂

Kerrygold is bloody lovely but never on offer I find. I usually get tesco or wAitrose own. There's a few blocks in the freezer I always bake with butter. An ex made me toast one night. I took one bite and could t eat it. Flora. Nasty stuff. M&S butter is lovely too.

Greetings from the land of Lurpak .

Have you ever tried making your own butter? Plenty of salt in it (smoked salt on top even). Doesn't keep that long but tastes lovely.

I use salted butter in dessert or cakes all of the time. You can hardly taste the salt. If anything it improves the taste.

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I absolutely agree.

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If I'm baking with butter, I also use salted. I think it tastes better too, but I do love salt anyway.

Does anyone remember when lurpak did the sticks of butter with chilli and possibly lime? It was when I did my nurse training in 2002-4. It was amazing on oven baked baby potatoes. They still do the garlic version but not the other one.

DM used to make toffee with salted butter - decades ahead of newfangled 'salted caramel'.

Yes I can't be bothered to use special butter for baking than the stuff I've already got so tend to use salted.

@BuildBuildings I agree that in sponge or similar it might be good. Salt is added anyway. I was making a cake which needed honey buttercream inbetween layers and butter in the layers themselves.....🙈

Brought up at a time when there was the myth that spreads were better for you (think Flora and Gold). I completely disagree and it's butter all the way here. Two types actually !

I dislike Flora anyway, and have been using spreadable butter. I am now going back to normal butter due to the plastics issue. I bought myself a lovely butter dish today.

(How on earth did this thread turn jnto a trans debate? Butter.....Gender identuty???!!!)

Anyway. Regarding Kerrygold being/not being butter. I need to go to the shops and check again but we always have it selling in the local Nisa etc and it says it's butter, but the tell tale sign is its usually noticably cheaper than the other brands. I once checked the back carefully and it said it was a 'blend of vegetable oils and butter'. So which Kerrygold am I on about then? Is there a spreadable version that comes as a block? I clearly need to go to the shop and check again. I must be confused.

There is a block version of Kerrygold as well as the tub, I don't like it much though and only buy it if there's nothing else.

and it says it's butter, but the tell tale sign is its usually noticably cheaper than the other brands

You are clearly thinking of something else.

A) it is definitely butter

B) it’s definitely not cheaper than other brands, it’s costs a fortune.

(How on earth did this thread turn jnto a trans debate? Butter.....Gender identuty???!!!)

Are you new to the trans threads/MN lol?!
They always turn into one even if it is butter
The whole thread was blatantly not about butter in the first place as I think OP just wanted to tell us all that they were sulking/flouncing from Flora with a passive aggressive thread about butter

Kerrygold range

kerrygold.com/ie/products/

We used to get one on France - I believe it was Normandy butter - with a drawing of squirrels on the packs.

It is the MOST bizarre thing trying to sift through a mix of butter and trans related posts .

On a buttery note - we've gone back to blocks of butter in a butter dish and I won't be looking back!

Having said that, I NEVER bought marg. We've been a "fake-pak" house for years.

I went off Kerrygold ages ago, it seemed to have a weird sweet taste to me. Tesco or Asda salted are the only ones that don't have that taste actually, but I'm aware it's probably just me as DH looks at me like I've got two heads when I mention it I keep my butter in DH's gran's old fashioned metal butter dish

Anchor spreadable lighter is on special offer in Tesco. Not full butter but still nice and doesnt have to sit out all day.

I like both spreadable butter and fridge cold butter on certain occasions so I have a dinky mini butter dish which I put a chunk in so I can have the best of both worlds.

Thanks to Flora we enjoyed crumpets with Country Life butter toady, so good ! I took a picture of my purchase in the trolley to send to Upfields

@Hidingtonothing I know exactly what you mean by the sweet taste. It seems to be once butter has been open to the air for a while. Or could be hormonal