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adwred · Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 3:47 pm Post subject: Compound Butters!!

Ok, for those of you not familiar with this wonder of life, a compound butter is just a flavoured butter.

1/2 lb. softened unsalted butter
1/2 tsp. good quality salt (optional)
The flavours of your choice (try 1/4 cup finely chopped leafy herbs, such as basil, tarragon, chives, flat-leaf parsley or sage, or 2 or 3 tbsp. finely chopped fragrant woody herbs, such as rosemary or thyme; 2 cloves minced garlic; 2 tbsp. dry red wine; 2 tsp. grated lemon zest; 3 or 4 soaked minced anchovies... the list goes on and on. You can do a mixture of all the above and multiple herbs, too.)

Stir together until everything is evenly distributed. If you're adding wine, it will take a bit of extra mixing to incorporate it, but it will mix in eventually. Plop onto a piece of parchment paper and use the parchment to roll up into a log. Refrigerate until firm. Melt thin slices onto hot steak or eggs or whatever you like! Yum.

Oh, you can also stir a finely grated or crumbled strong cheese in there, too, such as Stilton or Parmigiano Reggiano.

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ReddyMcMeaty · The Boss Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 5776

They sell things like this in the grocery stores here... wonder of life indeed!! Thanks for the recipe!
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adwred · Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 9:17 pm Post subject:

Here, the only compound butter available is plain old garlic butter for garlic bread in the green foil wrapper. It's really good, though, in a pinch! I've used it on steaks. Yup

It's a wee bit salty, but if you under-salt the meat, then it's fine.
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adwred · Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 9:41 pm Post subject:

Oh and if you're a fruit eater and have some sort of control over yourself, you can mush up fresh berries and mix them with softened unsalted butter with just a pinch of salt. Smear generously onto a revolution roll or just slice and eat like the butter-fiend you are!!!!

Note: I do not do berry butter, as I could probably sit down with a spoon and a bowl and finish off an entire pound of it. Shock

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Scout Finch · Meat Devil Joined: 08 Aug 2006 Posts: 1162

I love the idea of lemon butter or orange butter => citrus butter. I will try that one.

What if you want something spicy, like chipotle butter? Is that possible? Like with the chipotle peppers in a can and chop them up fine?

adwred · Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 1:20 pm Post subject:

Absolutely. Yup

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