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This week, The Kitchn discusses how long butter can be left outside the refrigerator and explains how to prevent it from going rancid.
Also on the Kitchn, a recipe for harvest cake with goat cheese frosting, rocks that look like food, five things to do with ricotta, and tips for boiling potatoes.
- Recipe: Harvest Cake with Goat Cheese Frosting: This fall-themed cake is a riff on the carrot cake but made with carrots, zucchini, beets, and raisins, and frosted with maple syrup-flavored goat cheese frosting.
- Food Art: Rocks Resembling Food: Bill & Lois Pattillo exhibit rocks that look like food. The key lime pie almost looks good enough to eat.
- Top Five Things to Do with Ricotta: Ricotta has many uses, from enriching sauces to making moist and fluffy pastries.
- Cooking Basics: How to Boil Potatoes: Follow these simple rules for great boiled potatoes.
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3 Comments:
We leave ours out in a covered butter plate, and one stick may be out as long as a week.
We recently switched to these big, round hunks of butter from an Amish farm - akin to the butter you often see Jamie Oliver using. Only leaving a bit of it out at a time, but hopefully there's no huge difference that will lead to some sick people in our household! :D
Fillippelli the Cook at 10:23AM on 10/03/08
my mom & I used to poke around in my grandparents' cabinets after they went to bed, & one time she reached up to see what was sitting in a white dish on an upper shelf. (you probably realize where this is going.) the next thing I heard was a (whispered), "aah!" as she pulled back her now-very-greasy hand. when she grabbed the dish, the entire stick was completely smashed with a very obvious handprint, & we giggled as quietly as we could about it for the next five minutes because our snooping ways were SO busted.
...I guess I don't really have a point, but that happened about 10 years ago & it still cracks me up to this day. I suppose the moral is: get a covered butter dish?
courtguerra at 5:09PM on 10/03/08
ive wondered about this since i was in college and got sick after making some crappy rice-a-roni with my roommates butter, which had been left on the stove to melt and solidify several times over. i know leaving your butter out is ok, since thats the way my parents have done it my whole life, but dont eat butter thats been melted a few times over! i imagine the warm, melted butter [also uncovered] can attract a lot of bactieria. i know better now! the things you learn in college...
redzerostar at 7:31PM on 10/03/08