#cultured butter

[beccaplaying]

My stepsister has me turnt on cultured, salted butter with fresh crusty bread. When she visited recently we got specialty cultured butter and bread at Chelsea Market but I found this in a local market and grabbed bread from a nearby bakery. If it’s not as good, I’ll keep looking.

[sohannabarberaesque]

MILDEW WOLF, on seeing some "cultured butter" in the dairy section of the local supermarket: How exactly do we know eating such will actually make us cultured and sophisticated, to begin with?

[basicallybaking]

Sweet Cream and Cultured Butter

Butter recipes are from the book "Butter: A Rich History" by Elaine Khosrova. I think the recipes are great, I just need to find a better way to knead and dry off the butter because the cheesecloth I have releases fuzz onto the butter, even when freshly cleaned. It's also important, I found, to press the butter a little at a time into all the crevices of the molds, otherwise you will have many gaps and air pockets. Metal molds work as well as silicone, you just have to tap them against the counter for the butter to slide out, but the butter seems to shrink a bit so it comes out easily. The cultured butter was made with a flora danica culture but to me tastes almost indientical to the sweet cream, although the buttermilk tasted wildly different, much more like tangy buttermilk from the store than the sweet cream buttermilk, with just tasted a bit like milk. Made one of them with raw cream, which didn't seem to make a difference falvor-wise. You should be able to get around 2 cups of cream from a gallon of raw milk (roughly, I'm sure this varies).

NB: I used my stand mixer and it took about 6-10 minutes for the butter to separate out and makes a HUGE mess. Try the food processor next time, since it's contained and can't splatter.

[enfinizatics]

peak of polishness: butter sculpted into a lamb

[thesilicontribesman]

Prehistoric Keg and Bog Butter, Kyleakin, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh

In 1884, a bronze cauldron was found in a peat bog at Kyleakin on the Isle of Skye, along with several wooden kegs containing butter. One of these kegs survives, and the butter within it has been dated to 225 to 401 CE (around 1,600 to 1,800 years ago). The preservation of the wooden container is particularly important as it gives us an insight into the different woodworking techniques being used in the Iron Age.

[padfootastic]

my headcanon of the day is that harry tried his first sip of alcohol (firewhisky) with sirius.

it was during the christmas holidays from hell, after the first DoM vision and mr weasley is in the hospital and harry’s being treated like voldemort v. 2, and he’s so so sick of everyone and their grandmothers tiptoeing around him. sirius is the only one who truly understands how much (and we’re not gonna talk about how it’s bc they did the same with him, supposed right hand man of the dark lord & betrayer of his friends, nope, this is not that kind of post)

and he tries to do whatever he could to alleviate it but honestly, nothing helped. it was another evening when harry was trying to escape, hide from the accusing eyes, when he stumbled upon sirius with a tumbler of firewhiskey in his hand and, basically out of desperation, snatched it from him and gulped it down.

cue hilarity of increasing proportions bc no one ever told baby boy what would happen if one chugs such a drink, and he spent the next half hour with smoke escaping various orifices and sirius giggling in a way he’d literally never seen before so maybe, it’s not all that bad eh?

from that day, it became an unspoken ritual for both of them come together at the end of the day (or when they’d reached the end of their ropes, whoever came first) and sirius to pour himself a glass that was slightly too full, and harry who kept stealing it from him (with, thankfully, shorter sips)

[sbrown82]

This performance lives rent free in my head! 🤌🏿🔥

[exgirlfiend]

genuine question would yall be interested if I made a master doc of all of the cultural references in wotww (or at least the ones I can recognize) complete with links to name origins and visual comparisons for locations and architecture. I <3 doing deep dives into the references behind the character names and the real world locations and time periods each area is inspired by

[nickysfacts]

Cocoa butter is easily the best moisturizer, I mean who doesn’t want to have smooth chocolate scented skin!🍫

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[eosofspades]

i am a nationalist about exactly ONE (1) thing and it's that i fucking love american food. i LOVE american beverage. i love "large" drink being a whole bucket's worth i love milkshake with the thickness of concrete i LOVE going out to a diner and taking my next three meals home with me i love leftovers. i love burger and fries i love fried chicken i love pb&j i love macaroni and cheese i love traditional pancake and scrambled egg breakfast i love apple pie i LOVE ice cream sundae. enough complaining about deep fried carnival food american food is DELICIOUS and im not taking complaints anymore

[jesncin]

Firstly, I loved Lunar Boy and congrats on the Harvey nom! Also wanted to know if you have any recommendations for stories (any medium, any demographic) that you think has a nuanced take on the intersection between race and queer/trans identity? it's really easy (for me at least) to feel pretty doom-and-gloom about the overwhelming whiteness of queer rep but no! the intersectionality we crave is out there! you just have to look for it!

p.s I really enjoy your approach to criticism and have enjoyed reading your recent posts. I genuinely think it's making me a more thoughtful viewer.

Thank you for the kind words on Lunar Boy and our media criticism!! ;0; Ooh yes! Here's my list of recs for QPOC stories:

Our Dreams At Dusk by Yuhki Kamatani. While race isn't directly talked about, it's still specific to the realities of being queer and Japanese. This short manga series inspired a lot of Lunar Boy.

Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender. YA novel about a trans masc Black teen going through love triangle shenanigans and self discovery.

The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar (this author does a ton of sapphic novels I believe). YA novel about two girls starting a rival henna business but perhaps?? Love?? Happens??

The Ribbon Skirt by Cameron Mukwa. This MG graphic novel is available for preorder now, and is written and drawn by a friend of mine :3 the story is about a 2 Spirit child who wants to create a ribbon skirt to wear for the upcoming powwow.

Sergius Seeks Bacchus by Norman Erikson Pasaribu. A collection of poems (translated into English by Tiffany Tsao) covering an array of genres and stories. Beautifully touching queer Indonesian writing, I recommend anything Norman writes.

These are harder to find but for more queer Indonesian film there's Memories of My Body (coming of age story about a Lengger Lanang dancer, Indonesia's drag dance tradition), Lovely Man (a religious young woman seeks to reunite with her estranged father, who is now a waria sex worker) Madame X (extremely camp queer SUPERHERO MOVIE about a trans woman fighting a violent hate group).

Idk if this is available anymore, but I adore To All The White Girls I Loved Before by Sarula Bao. A short comic from Short Box's annual digital Comics Fair (which I recommend keeping an eye out for comics in the indie scene). It's about the author's unflattering desire to assimilate with the white girls she had crushes on. Some pages are on her site.

Those are what immediately come to mind for me but I'm sure I'm forgetting more!! These are the ones that directly engage with the intersection of being queer and POC, as opposed to a character being incidentally QPOC.

[fieriframes]

[WE PUT A LOT OF BUTTER IN THIS WHAT? WE PUT A LOT OF BUTTER IN THIS]

[cowboycthulhu]

Inspired by a conversation I had with a non-American friend. Reblogs would be appreciated for a larger sample size

[aro-culture-is]

aro culture is getting so fucking tired of people using the fact that there's a queer romance in something as a reason you should watch it. like haven't allos had enough of romance? queer or otherwise? I'm not saying queer representation is bad, of course, I'm just fed up with asking what a book is about and in response all I get is "oh it has queer people in it" cool! what is it about? having queer representation is not the be all end all of media can we please have ONE thing without romance in it. please.

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[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

Oh, so there's a person out there who eats their hard boiled eggs with peanut butter, but people still have the audacity to call me weird when I eat them with olives

we should all just save a screenshot of the peanut butter egg anon on our phones so we can show it to people who call us weird and say "at least I'm not this person"

[vegan-nom-noms]

Vegan peanut curry with sweet potato