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Using I Can't Believe It's Not Butter and salt in a recipe that calls for unsalted butter
There's a cookie recipe I'm going to make that calls for 3/4 cup unsalted butter, melted and 1/2 teaspoon salt. We use I Can't Believe It's Not Butter as a substitute for butter, however that contains ...
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Graham cracker crust too salty for cheesecake
My first cheesecake was too salty, particularly around the crust, and I want to know what could have caused it.
One possibility is that I mismeasured the salt, although I do not make that mistake ...
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Is less quality cream used in salted butter?
My room mate's mom recently told us that butter manufacturers will use a lower quality cream in their salted butter because the salt will help preserve the butter. This sounds too intuitive to be true....
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How much to reduce salt when using salted butter in place of unsalted butter
I normally don't keep unsalted butter on hand since I use it so seldom. So when a recipe calls for salt and unsalted butter among its ingredients would it be alright to use salted butter and reduce ...
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What is the purpose of kosher salt in peanut butter? Can it be replaced with something else?
From here: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/homemade-peanut-butter-recipe/index.html
Ingredients
15 ounces shelled and skinned AB's roasted peanuts, recipe follows
**1 teaspoon ...
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Water content of salted butter
It seems to be common knowledge among bakers that salted butter has a higher water content than unsalted*. How much higher?
And if there's a different amount of water, why does this nutritional data ...
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Can salted butter be used for yellow cake recipe?
I need help D:
I'm making 300 yellow cupcakes for prom in 2 days and I've purchase salted butter instead of unsalted .
- Can I use the salted butter instead of using unsalted and just not add in salt ...
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What is the expected shelf life of salted butter?
I have just purchased 250g of Lescure salted butter (Beurre Demi-Sel) with a best before date of 23 July 2011. Today is the 2nd July 2011. I thought that butter has a shelf life of months, not 21 days!...
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What different uses do we assign to salted butter vs. unsalted butter?
What different uses do we assign to salted butter versus unsalted butter?
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