Butter Hints

Butter in Cooking

Kerrygold butter is a delicious and versatile ingredient and provides a unique natural taste, whether spread on warm crusty bread or used in cooking. For sauces, glazing or basting, butter gives the best results and is recommended by the world's most discerning chefs.

Kerrygold butter has a wonderful flavour and texture. It can transform the most ordinary foods into everyday luxuries.

Slightly salted butter is the most popular and widely available type (in Ireland) and particularly suited to cooking.

If high cooking temperature is required e.g. frying, the addition of a little cooking oil helps to prevent the butter burning.

Butter Shapes

Add a dash of style to a whole range of dishes and a touch of elegance to butter presentation by creating a variety of shapes from Kerrygold Pure Butter.

Curls To make butter curls, dip a butter curler in very hot water. Scrape the curler along the top of a 1lb block of butter. Keep the butter curls in iced water until ready to use.

Shapes Cut slices of butter approximately 0.5" in thickness. Use different shaped small pastry cutters to stamp out shapes.

Pats Spoon softened butter onto a piece of greaseproof paper and roll into a cylindrical shape. Twist each end of the greaseproof paper to form the shape. Chill the butter and slice into round pats.

Balls Using a partisan cutter (melon baller), cut out ball shapes from a block of butter

Fingers Cut 0.5" slices of butter and cut into fingers.

Round balls Using wooden butter hands, shape pats of butter into round ball shapes.

Triangles Cut slices of butter approximately 0.5" in thickness. Cut the slices diagonally to form triangles.

Zig-zags Shape butter into a block, approximately 2" inches square. Draw a fork or butter curler along the surface of the butter to form a zig-zag pattern.