Compound butter

Compound butters (French: beurre composé, pl. beurres composés) are mixtures of butter and other ingredients used as a flavoring, in a fashion similar to a sauce.^[1][2][3] Compound butters have a variety of uses. For hot dishes, a piece of cold compound butter is placed on top of cooked meat or fish before sending it to the table. Meat, fish, or mushrooms can be basted with them while cooking in an oven. Compound butters can be added as an enrichment in soups before serving. Chilled but malleable compound butters are used in pastry bags to make decorations for appetizers and cold dishes.^[4]

Compound butters can be made or bought. A compound butter can be made by whipping additional elements, such as herbs, spices or aromatic liquids, into butter. It is usually re-formed and chilled before being melted on top of meats and vegetables, used as a spread, or used to finish sauces.

Beurres composés include:

• Beurre d'auchois – anchovy butter^[4]
• Beurre Bercy – shallot butter with white wine^[4]
• Beurre à la bourguignonne – garlic and parsley butter
• Beurre d'escargot^[4]
• Beurre d'estragon – tarragon butter^[4]
• Beurre de fine herbes^[4]
• Beurre maitre d'hotel – butter with parsley and lemon juice
• Beurre de moutarde – mustard butter^[4]
• Café de Paris butter
• Garlic butter
• Beurre au citron – lemon butter

• Beurre manié, butter mixed with flour, used as a thickener in cooking
• Cannabis butter or cannabutter, butter blended with cannabis and water, generally used in baking.
• Egg butter

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