Celebrating the golden ingredient: history, culture, recipes

Butter

A glorious celebration of butter, with lashings of sweet and savoury recipes.Butter is regarded as an everyday staple – it is a reminder of the joy of real food; at its root it does not have to be complicated, after all, the best things in life are often the simplest. In this book, devoted experts celebrate the timeless craft of making butter from scratch, as well as nourishing, fulfilling and indispensable recipes using butter as the key ingredient.Beyond the secret history and culture of butter, delve into recipes for making your own cultured variations at home such as Wild Garlic or Smoked Butter. Or enjoy recipes with butter at their heart, from Poached Turbot, Steak and Toasted Danish Daal to Sourdough Treacle Tart, Brioche Butter Pudding and Buttermilk and Marmalade Gelato, there are endless tempting dishes to enjoy.A love letter to beloved butter – this is an ode to the simple pleasure of cooking with butter for your artisan kitchen. 
 
Text is extracted and updated from Bread & Butter, by Eve Hemingway, Richard Snapes and Grant Harrington

Eve Hemingway (Author) Eve Hemingway is a food writer who strives to preserve old food cultures. She believes that without books and essays to promote the hard work of specialist food producers, we're at risk of losing the knowledge and skills they devote their lives to. She currently works for Winnow, a company that supports restaurants to reduce food waste. Richard Snapes (Author) Richard Snapes of The Snapery Bakery believes that even the best can be improved. A philosophy that has cemented a life long pursuit: to make the best bread anyone has ever eaten. He launched his Bermondsey-based bakery in 2014 and now supplies bread to establishments including José Pizarro restaurants, Casse-Croûte, Bar Tozino and Garden Café. Grant Harrington (Author) Grant Harrington of Ampersand Cultured Butter is on a mission to make butter taste more buttery. He makes artisan cultured butter, buttermilk and fresh cheeses and has supplied some 20 Michelin-starred restaurants with his buttery delights. He worked under Gordon Ramsay, and has been a private chef for the Duke of Westminster and pastry chef at Fäviken, Sweden.

Richard Snapes

Grant Harrington

Eve Hemmingway

History, Culture, Recipes

Bread &amp; Butter is a love letter to two glorious, artisanal products that have graced our tables for centuries. The book delves deep into the history and culture behind the bread and butter partnership, taking a global overview that brings us to the present day.It also shares more than 50 outstanding sweet and savoury recipes that celebrate the best of both bread and butter. There are key recipes for a variety of breads (flatbreads, brioche, grain loaf) and butters (real butter, ghee, flavoured spreads), as well as recipes that bring the two together, from simple buttermilk scones or bread puddings, to a brioche and brown butter ice-cream and spelt buttermilk pancakes.Bread and butter are put on the table to be eaten and enjoyed, and this book shows you how to prepare both brilliantly &ndash; but it also explores how&#160;bread and butter are eaten across the world. It covers the traditions, the flavours and the making processes.&#160;And it&#39;s a celebration of the most humble, but arguably most important, pairings in food history.

Richard Snapes

Books by Richard Snapes

Series by Richard Snapes

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