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Travelin’ Recipe Tip: Fresh Butter on the Road

By Howard Charles Best, September 3, 2007

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The only thing that you need to purchase (besides the butter) in order to very easily and efficiently dispense fresh butter on the road are 12" Disposable [Cake] Decorating Bags. You don’t need a decorating tip or a decorating coupler. My local Walmart™ sells a box of 12 of them for US$3.96 and a box of 50 for US$11.96.

Assuming that you buy a pound of butter on the road, here’s what you do:

1. Remove 4 disposable decorating bags from the box.

2. Remove the wrapper from a stick of butter.

3. Insert the stick of butter into one of the decorating bags as far in as it will go.

4. Close and seal the bag as close to the butter as possible using a bag tie or a small rubber band.*

5. Repeat steps 2 through 4 for the other 3 sticks of butter.

6. Put 3 of the butter bags into a cooler containing ice (assuming that you have one), and leave 1 of them out so that it will soften.

7. When the butter is soft, use scissors to cut off the end of the decorating bag so that a hole of approximately ¼" diameter is produced.

8. Now the butter may be dispensed by squeezing the bag as though you were decorating a cake!

9. To save the rest of the butter for later, fold over the small end of the bag and store the butter filled decorator bag in a quart sized Zip-Lock™ bag.

10. When all of the butter has been dispensed, simply throw the bag away, but you might want to save the bag tie / rubber band for future use.

* Keep in mind that a bag tie contains metal, so if you use a bag tie to seal the bag, then you shouldn’t warm the bag of butter in a microwave oven.


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