Proper Butter!

wyebird

Sainsbury's deli counter has local farm butters.

VfM4meplse

It depends what you want to do with the butter. For baking, I find any old will do - so if I see it reduced, it goes into the freezer and I use it straight from there.

I rarely buy butter to spread on things, but the next time I do it will be the Aldi West Country stuff as its had so many positive endorsements.

Fuskercat

We want butter for sandwiches and for toast...I also use any butter or even margarine for baking. My thinking is, if the butter actually has a lovely flavour we would only need a bit of it ...in reality we would probably eat enough lovely buttery toast for it to come out of our ears!

lindens

You could make your own

Fuskercat

I could, but it really shouldn't be so hard to buy butter that actually tastes like butter

Edwardia

President is a cultured butter ie made from fermented cream. Lurpak is too, although they taste completely different ! I would guess that might be because of breed of cow, pasture, resulting fat content of the cream and the production process.

OH and I love President but the organic version isn't sold here. So we've now switched to Sainsbury's SO organic unsalted butter which is actually cheaper than Lurpak.

Jellybro

Yeo valley organic butter tasted nice and creamy to me.

jon81uk

jollyme wrote: »

I also have wondered about butter. What HAVE they done to it?
Do they whisk it and incorporate air? Or add water? I have pretty well convinced myself that something of that nature is going on.

I think a big factor on the flavour is the quality of the milk, cows eating mainly grass will make richer milk and tastier butter. Cows eating artificial feed and silage won't make as nicer milk and the poor milk makes poor butter.

Nada666

“Excuse me,
Your Majesty,
For taking of
The liberty,
But marmalade is tasty, if
It’s very
Thickly
Spread.”

Bother and Oh deary me
What a most important thread

The_Last_Username

I used to buy loose butter, hand-shaped, from Blackburn market many years ago. *sigh*
Butter (esp. Lurpak) HAS changed - but for everyday use, we like the Lidl "Morning Fresh" unsalted in the silver & red wrapper.
At under £1, it's good.



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