Unsalted Butter

Mine's_a_guinness

Thanks for all the replies. I used salted (Lurpak) and it tasted great. It was a Bruce Bogtrotter cake from Roald Dhal's Revolting Recipes and it really is GORGEOUS!!!

mum2kathryn

thriftlady wrote:

I think salted butter is much nicer in baking. The salt was traditionally used to preserve the butter. I found Nigella Lawson's recipes annoying because she continually called for unsalted butter and then added salt to the recipe anyway.

Loads of recipes do that - it drives me nuts!

Flimber

mum2kathryn wrote:

Loads of recipes do that - it drives me nuts!

But why rely on the manufacturers lowest-of-the-low grade industrially-derived salt when you can add your own quality salt (e.g., Maldon's) and use a top quality butter too ? Or even use no salt at all ?

Lillibet_2

Gingham_Ribbon wrote:

I've not found unsalted butter that is as cheap as salted stuff. Does anyone know a good source of organic unsalted that isn't more expensive than the salted ? And we use the betterbuy salted stuff in baking without problem, but again, if anyone knows of an unsalted one that is comparable in price I'd appreciate knowing!

Sainsburys:D Their unsalted organic butter is within 10p of their salted organic butter (varies a bit store to store I've found) around £1 ish or a bit less mark. I too only like unsalted & use organic where ever I can, as I don't regularly shop in Sainsburys I tend to buy 6 blocks at a time & freeze them;)