As a family, the butter was almost inevitably a tub of spreadable butter kept in its plastic container in the fridge, but when my late partner came to live with me she was rather disparaging about that and bought blocks of butter which she left out in its wrapper.
One day she found a ceramic container, a duck which may have contained pâté, and started using that. It quickly became a fixture in the kitchen, then earlier this year I put a part brick of butter into the dish and pressed the top on a bit hard and split the bottom in two. I was devastated and heartbroken, it had been in the house for several decades, and I’d come to associate it with Jo, my partner.
Fortunately, I managed to find an almost identical dish through Etsy, which now sits in the kitchen with butter in it, and I was able to glue the broken dish together, it’s now holding small bits and pieces on my coffee table.
It’s funny how a simple thing like having a container to put butter in can become such an important part of one’s life, just using it makes me think of her every time.
Me. I’m the standard by which all humanity must be judged. And I’m very disappointed in all of you.
This is the only butter we may leave out for several hours at Easter time. Unless you count that tub of lard that was always near the stove at grandma’s house.
The Easter Lamb (Baranek wielkanocny) a Polish tradition for as long as I’ve been Polish. It includes the traditional lamb cakes as well.
I think it would be helpful if we more often acknowledge that “popular” conflates at least three different metrics: dominance, prestige, and frequency. Pants are popular in the almost everyone wears them. Keanu Reeves is popular in that he’s prestigious, and very well liked. The ‘popular clique’ in teen movies is dominant over their high school even though everyone dislikes them.
TikTok trends may come to dominate TikTok, but are neither frequent-in-real-life nor prestigious.
Also: given the choice, I’d much rather have to clean butter off a wooden board, than cheese. Butter, at least, melts and runs under hot tap water.
Try using a metal bench scraper. You can remove the whole surface and not put grease down your drains.
The tiny amounts of butter left after wiping a surface clean isn’t enough to matter unless you have very sensitive plumbing. And scraping a wooden board with metal every time I use it is a recipe for it not lasting very long.
Well, the wooden counters I used as a baker did not wear out over years and years of being scraped clean every day.
But… is it, though?
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