Today I put some break in the toaster and went looking for butter, only to find that there wasn’t much. It was too much of a nuisance to scrape cold butter over the toast, but I wanted something to give it more flavor. My eyes fell on the honey. I decided to try it and compare, so I spread some butter on one piece, and put a think layer of honey on the other. The honeyed toast was pretty good - different but equal to butter, I’d say. I then started in on the buttered toast. About halfway through, I had a thought - what if I combined the two? I got the honey open again, a spread a layer on my toast over the butter. That accomplished, I took my first sample of my brainchild.
Oh. My. God. Pure bliss. That was probably the best piece of toast I’ve had in ages. Simple delicious. If I wasn’t so lazy, I’d do it again… mmmm…
Even better than honey & butter on bread is honey-butter on bread. Easy to make (toss a stick of butter in a foodprocesser or mixer, add some honey and whump the bejezus out of it: It spreads easily, it’s not as sticky as pure honey and pure butter, and it’s just yummy beond words. (And it’ll keep in a sealed tupperwear container for weeks or even months)
Honey and Butter go together really well, don’t they? Of course, an ice cold glass of milk goes well with, too. Avoid like the plague margarine and other synthetic abominations.
Roman Meal bread makes excellent toast and peanut butter sandwiches, btw.
You’d think so, but if the butter’s cold (and the blade and bowl of the mixer cold too) it all works out. Start out by “blending” the butter alone, and once it starts getting “creamed”, start adding the honey.
As for the ratio, I dunno. At least a couplea tablespoons of honey to 1 stick of butter. (I just taste and when it tastes “right”, I stop adding honey.)
Cougarfang scampers back in, looking slightly shell-shocked
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Settles down in a corner, sucking paw Mmmmm… where’s the toast?
Fenris, when I was a kid, about a million years ago, my father introduced me to the butter / honey thing. My mother made the best biscuits in the world and they were the bread of choice for the mixture. I still do it from time to time, but my biscuits don’t compare to Mom’s.
" Is there honey still for tea?" Rupert Brooke
"Butter and Honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil and choose the good " The Bible
“Eating Bread and Honey” Nursery Rhyme
As you see a long tradition of bread , honey and butter
Over in these islands in the North Atlantic, that’s what we (most of us anyway) always do. Butter first, then jam, marmalade, honey, marmite, nutella, chocolate spread, etc. Most sandwiches too are made with butter. It’s particularly popular in Ireland - the only place where I’ve seen people spread butter on bread thickly, then add mayonnaise, cheese, ham, etc.
Yuk I hate honey and butter together. I like my toast very well toasted, almost burnt to a crisp in fact, and my honey a medium thickness and unpolluted by any other spread or condiment.
