Gift Idea - Butter Crock
Today, I’m suggesting a great Christmas gift idea…. It’s getting to be crunch time on the Christmas shopping schedule, and here is one I am particularly fond of:
I like to use real butter. My husband got me away from margarine years ago. Now that I have learned about partially hydrogenated fats, I am glad that I have used butter all of these years.
Not that I’m saying butter is good for you. It’s not. But I personally believe that margarine is probably worse. Good oils, like olive oil, are infinitely better than butter or margarine, but you gotta have something to spread on your toast, bread, etc.
The trouble most folks have with butter is that you keep it in the refrigerator, and when you want a little on your toast it’s too hard to spread. You have to either warm the butter up in the microwave - which makes a mess - or butcher your toast trying to spread cold butter on it.
A couple of years ago my friend Martha introduced me to the butter crock. This is how people stored their butter before the wonderful invention of the refrigerator. Basically, the butter is packed into a crock and inverted into a little bowl of water. This forms an air-lock so that no bacteria can touch your butter. Then you can allow your butter crock to sit out at room temperature. No more cold hard butter. No more butchered toast. No more buttery puddles in your microwave.
Check it out: This link will take you to an informative page about butter crocks and there are a few links on it so you can order one for yourself if you like. I have used mine daily ever since I bought it. About once a week, I empty it, run it through the dishwasher, and re-pack it. Sometimes I think I would use two of them, so I could switch them out more easily when one needed to be washed.
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