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threebikesmcginty

Corn Fed Hick...
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Butter - It's really rather good!
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That is all
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Try this recipe - I think you'll like it 3BM!

We just came back from dinner at Hong Kong Cafe and had the most of desserts there. French toast. Sounds harmless until you actually see it. 2 thick slices of bread with peanut butter slathered in between, dipped in egg and deep fried to gold perfection. Served with a slab of butter quickly melting its way into the soft white bread on the inside. When you cut it open, peanut butter heated by the oil, oozes out. To top it off, you're served this with golden syrup, the sweeter cousin of maple syrup.
 
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threebikesmcginty

threebikesmcginty

Corn Fed Hick...
Location
...on the slake
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Try this recipe - I think you'll like it 3BM!

We just came back from dinner at Hong Kong Cafe and had the most of desserts there. French toast. Sounds harmless until you actually see it. 2 thick slices of bread with peanut butter slathered in between, dipped in egg and deep fried to gold perfection. Served with a slab of butter quickly melting its way into the soft white bread on the inside. When you cut it open, peanut butter heated by the oil, oozes out. To top it off, you're served this with golden syrup, the sweeter cousin of maple syrup.
 

Arch

Married to Night Train
Location
Salford, UK
(*cat put amongst the pigeons*)

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I was looking through a recipe pamphlet at work yesterday - a hand made photocopied thing, very earnest it was. I shuddered a bit at the page where they said you could get all the nutrients you needed from sprouting stuff (yes, but why live longer if you have to live on nothing but sprouts? I'd rather die). Anyway, I was on the verge of a fit of invective about it all when I turned the page to find a recipe for 'basic tofu cheesecake', and the first two ingredients were "Digestive biscuits (you can get dairy free ones)" and "Spread". That was enough. Why bother with cheesecake, if you're going to take all the fun (and cheese!) out of it?

Although I do cook with oil for stuff like pasta sauces and so on. But it's butter for white sauce and so on.
 

Baggy

Cake connoisseur
:ohmy: That looks more like mingerine to me.

I like I cant believe its not better

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Rhythm Thief

Legendary Member
Location
Ross on Wye
I've not touched "spreads" since working in the process room at Dairycrest years ago. Butter was made with cream and salt, and nothing else. Spreads (Clover and <retch> Willow) were made with two types of oil - one of which, if spilt, was difficult to melt even with a hot hose; Christ knows what it does to your arteries - an unappealing substance called watery skim, used instead of buttermilk, two types of emulsifier (one of which looked like granules of wax) and colouring which came in bottles marked with a black cross in an orange square and a warning about birth defects in pregnant women. Oh, and some actual cream.

Oh, and the other thing I learned was never to buy expensive butter. We used to pack Sainsbury's best butter (cheap), Sainsbury's English butter (more expensive), Country Life and M&S "not just butter ... it's ridiculously expensive butter" from the same vat of cream, fed to the same churn and packed on different lines.
 

Fab Foodie

hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
Location
Kirton, Devon.
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I use butter for cooking, instead of olive oil.

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Butter cooks (frys) better than olive oil because it has a better assortment of fatty acids in its composition, particularly shorter more 'polar' types. In addition, butter fat by the time it has been made into butter has very slightly degraded, making it again more polar or water loving. Lard is the same and as oft-noted frys very well indeed!
Slightly degraded oils act more like detergent and can get closer to the watery foodstuffs and transfer heat better. That's why old oil fries darker than fresh oil (which is generally a bit hopeless).
Olive oil 50:50 with butter is my fave!
 
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