Eat bread and butter
Each week we celebrate the love of a good snack, with genius ideas for eating for pure pleasure – either solo or with friends…
I’m not the kind of Snack Correspondent™ that would try to pull the wool over your eyes and so now feels like the time to admit: there’s no finer snack in the world than a chunk of fresh bread topped thickly with salty, silky butter.
We appear to be living through the dough years (and the d’oh years). The world is a flaming, convulsing bin, so – in the shadows – we’re baking ourselves better, hoping that a spot of kneading will distract us, that the process of creating something for ourselves that’s historically been central to our existence will make us feel like we have some control. What I’m saying is: wherever you live, you probably have access to good bread.
Let’s get into the butter, though. It has been consistently proven in clinical trials (done by me) that having a block of the salty stuff on hand improves the overall effectiveness (of you) by tons of per cent. I also conducted extensive taste tests on your behalf, and of the supermarket butters, these are three of my favourites:
Aldi Specially Selected West Country Butter (£1.65)
Trewithen Dairy Cornish Salted Butter from Ocado (£2.15)
Calon Wen Lightly Salted Butter from Ocado (£2.05)
And I don’t know about you, but for a hot minute there I forgot something I learned when I was about six: butter is simply churned cream. If you want something more heavenly and exhilarating than all of the above, the recipe below takes, I kid you not, 10 minutes.
May your snacks be salty and silky, whatever happens.