We’ve spent the last four posts exploring the role of butter in ganache and other confections, and now it’s time for a little substitution experiment. A good guideline for the addition of butter to a ganache is to add 15% of the weight of the cream and chocolate combined. So in…
Published May 12, 2015
Published March 23, 2015
My parents were visiting me this week, and we talked a lot about our family history. Remember when I said that my grandfather made me butter sandwiches? Well, he came by it honestly – his father, my great grandfather, would signal the end of a meal by reaching for the…
Published February 28, 2015
Butter sweet butter! I’m going to admit it, I love butter. I grew up in a culture where the culinary legacy is a weird hybrid of Eastern European and pioneer food – my family is known to joke that the only spices are fat, sugar, salt, and pepper. I come…
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