Sentence examples for blocks of butter from inspiring English sources
Blocks of butter and headcheese, a can of raw milk, wrapped parcels, and cured bacons are stuffed onto the shelves around us.
Weekenders strolled about the outdoor market, filling their bags with blocks of butter, white disks of cow's milk cheese, bottles of apple cider and other Côte Fleurie bounty.
The three stairwells in Newport Street are where this obsessive virtuosity reaches its peak, plunging through the building in great ovoid spirals lined with creamy white brick, as if carved from blocks of butter.
In 2012's Cannibal, she recreated a food orgy inspired by the "barforama" in the film Stand By Me: a panel of gluttons stuff themselves with jelly and solid blocks of butter ("they had buckets under the table").
The fair's pedestals are generally reserved for local farm beauties willing to have their likenesses sculptured in 90-pound blocks of butter and for outstanding local artisans like the baking maestro Marjorie Johnson, poised once again to take on all comers, backed by the more than 2,550 ribbons she's won to date.
In the capacious "cold room" (jackets provided), shoppers have the opportunity to hoist into their carts huge bags of smoked neck bones, prewrapped port fatback, sweet-sausage combos, uncut blocks of butter, margarine by the three-pound tub, and pasteurized processed American cheese, sliced and bundles into unspeakably long packages.
"A solid one-pound block of butter could be made into a few dozen pats with one fell swoop.
"If you go by the way that it's traditionally made," she said, "it's like eating a giant block of butter".
I didn't expect it to change my life, but I did expect that if I ever encountered a one-pound block of butter I would be prepared.
A block of butter for the breadbasket had a hard, pale yellow ring around it, suggesting that it had begun to melt before being returned to the refrigerator.
