Would you pay $16 a pound for butter?

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tulips4june

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OK, it was in the shape of a lamb, but 4 ounces for $3.99 was too much just
to look cute. I recall buying the lamb shaped butter many years ago for
little more than normal butter cost. And I think they were 8 ounces then
too! It was Keller's brand. Good butter, but for that kind of money, I'll
try using a magic marker and draw on a regular stick.
 
"Ed Pawlowski" wrote in message
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Maybe if I were having a dinner with a lot of little kids, I would buy one.
But probably not.

I remember being at a summer BBQ at my BIL and SIL's house. BIL was cooking
some kind of meat and then he told SIL they were out and would have to
sacrifice the lamb. I was confused. I thought he meant they were out of
meat and would have to get the lamb (meat) that they had originally planned
for something else. But this seemed an odd thing to say given the amount of
meat I saw on the platters and the number of people at the party.

Imagine my surprise when they brought down butter in the shape of a lamb.
That was the first and only time I have seen it like that. I'm sure they
are around. I have just never looked for them. I tend to buy my butter at
the health food store. I really try to buy as much as I can from them
because they go out of their way to order special foods for us, and they
have the best prices.
 
"Omelet" wrote in message
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You'd not want to melt the butter. Just get it really soft, press into the
molds and refrigerate. Then use a hot knife to melt the surface of the
halves and press them together. We used to do that all the time when I did
food prep. We used candle and chocolate molds.

Paul
 
"Paul M. Cook" wrote in message
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I just remembered a story about a fancy Italian restaurant and butter balls
on ice. I don't know why they did that. They were next to impossible to
spread on the bread.

Anyway... This happened many years ago before my brother married his wife.
I went to dinner with the two of them. I tried to get a butter ball and it
shot across the table then rolled onto the floor. I went down on the floor
to get it at the same time my SIL did. Both of us tried to get it and all
we succeeded in doing was shooting it back and forth to each other under the
table. We were down there laughing our heads off. That slippery little
thing was so hard we couldn't pick it up!

I can't remember now what we wound up doing with it. Probably kicking it to
the side under the table so we wouldn't step on it.
 
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:32:29 -0700, "Paul M. Cook"
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I'd have to pick that one up. I still giggle over the
Land-of-Lake's wrapper.

If I wanted a lamb, I'd look in Toys-R-Us in the play dough section
and get a mold. [maybe a craft store?]

Jim
 
Ed Pawlowski wrote:


For all the years that my dad carved butter lambs out of block butter, and
seeing the time and effort that went into them, I probably would.
They always ended up looking like puppies though, so we called them the
Easter Butter Puppies.
 
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Well, yeah, if one of your religious figures of speech is The Cow of God.

Felice 8-)
 
On Apr 23, 1:13?am, Omelet wrote:

Butter is usually molded by pressing soft but not liquid into the mold
-- often of wood -- and then chilling it for release. Metal is
soldered by applying molten alloy (the base metal has to be hot enough
to avoid freezing the alloy on contact) and letting it cool and
solidify. The same technique will "solder" glass or metal (and maybe
also wood) with butter.

Jerry
--
Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get.
 
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