{"id":85065,"date":"2014-10-17T21:51:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T11:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=85065"},"modified":"2020-06-30T20:49:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T10:49:57","slug":"beautiful-butter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2014\/10\/17\/beautiful-butter\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Butter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>October 17, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

by Jason Ford<\/strong>
\nFord on Food<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

It is often said that the three secrets of French cuisine are: butter, butter and butter.<\/p>\n

As a chef who trained in the classical French style of cookery, I can confirm this statement is \u2018mostly true\u2019.<\/p>\n

Before I go any further, I will provide a disclaimer: I don\u2019t encourage excessive consumption of butter.<\/p>\n

And I won\u2019t get into the dietary debate over replacing butter with margarine. Personally, I hate margarine, and absolutely love butter (but that\u2019s just me).<\/p>\n

However, the growth in margarine consumption has led to a generation of people who may not know the beauty of butter or even understand how it is produced.<\/p>\n

Butter could be defined as a dairy product made by churning (cow\u2019s milk) cream to separate the butterfat from the buttermilk.<\/p>\n

The watery buttermilk is a by-product that has further culinary use, while the yellow coloured butterfat (often with added salt) is compressed into blocks of butter.<\/p>\n

In fact, you can make it yourself by over-whipping fresh cream. <\/p>\n

Margarine. on the other hand, is not made of dairy and is often made of many ingredients and coloured with yellow food colouring to make it look like butter.<\/p>\n

Butter is solidified when refrigerated, becomes smooth and spreadable at room temperature, and melts to a thin liquid when heated.<\/p>\n

Butter can be used as a spread (such as garlic butter), used as a frying medium (for crumbed foods) or used as a sauce (such as lemon butter on grilled fish).<\/p>\n

Butter is also used to enrich bakery products.<\/p>\n

Even in a health-conscious era, butter has a proud and celebrated history in many cultures, and I think it\u2019s a beautiful and natural ingredient.<\/p>\n

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Salted Butterscotch Sauce<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a>One of my favorite winter warmer recipes is this rich, decadent butter enriched sauce.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s incredibly easy to make and can be served with almost any dessert, such as sticky date pudding, deep fried ice-cream or bread and butter pudding.<\/p>\n

Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n