To MAKE Butter Sweet, for Winter Use
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United States
Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.
- Curing. Old curing amounts and salts may be unsafe. Use current tested guidance.
Ingredients 5 ingredients
- two pounds of butter
- a gill of water
- Salt
- Milk
- one part white sugar
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- Buy the ordinary packed butter, which is not strong or rank ;
- take out several pounds, and work it with cold water until free from milk ;
- put to each pound a small teaspoonful of fine salt, then pack it close into stone pots or wooden kegs ;
- make a brine of one part saltpetre, one part white sugar, and two of common salt.
- To each ounce of this pre})aratiou put a gill of water for each two pounds of butter;
- pour it over the butter;
- cover the pot or keg, and keep it in a cool place.
- Quite indifferent butter may be made sweet and good by pouring this brine over, and allowing it to remain for a few weeks, or longer, before using.
- Or 3^ou may pack it as directed in the preceding receipt, and arrive at the same result.
- Butter packed after these directions has been eaten in the spring of the year in preference to the best grass butter.