" Butter, butter, butter; every meal butter.
It combines milk, sugar and cocoa butter in proportions that only your inner child could love, but when used in cooking, where its flavours and physical properties enhance the dish, it becomes a handy ingredient.
There was this guy inside (Yianni Papoutsis) going on about frying the chillies in butter and proportions of fat to meat; I knew then I was onto a good thing, and it's still my favourite burger in London.
Butter contained low proportion of solid fat, even at low temperatures.
With a high proportion of butter in the mix, the crumble should quickly come together in small clumps.
(Joël Robuchon, the king of his generation of French cooks, first became famous for a purée that had an even higher proportion of butter beaten into starch).
For vegetarians, white chocolate is a much better substitute than regular butter, as the high proportion of cocoa fat it contains stays as hard as dripping at room temperature.
Over time, I've come to know this dough: the proportion of butter to Crisco that maintains flavor yet keeps the shapes intact in the oven; the warm smell of vanilla tweaked with a bit of lemon; the firmness of the properly chilled dough.
Bakers must carefully layer the dough, paint on perfect proportions of butter, and then roll and fold this trembling croissant embryo with the precision of a Japanese origami master.
Other dishes were inspired by thoughts she just couldn't get out of her head, like the way char-grilled squid goes so well with romesco sauce or how the right proportions of butter, cream and shallot could improve the oyster pan roasts she tried at Grand Central Oyster Bar.
The men tried to survive on a diet consisting predominantly of just one major food group before shifting the proportions of butter, pemmican and biscuit in their rations until they found one that was palatable and helped them man-haul across the snow.
