{"id":15900,"date":"2018-08-05T15:54:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T22:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/?p=15900"},"modified":"2020-04-16T11:18:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T18:18:26","slug":"homemade-butter-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/homemade-butter-spread\/","title":{"rendered":"Homemade Butter Spread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INGREDIENTS<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 stick Tillamook or Fleishman&#8217;s (high quality) butter<\/li>\n<li>2 TBL whole milk &#8211; DO NOT use skim or low-fat<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>STEP BY STEP<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Let butter come up to room temperature<\/li>\n<li>Put into mixing bowl (not a food processor &#8211; too fast)<\/li>\n<li>Add warm milk<\/li>\n<li>Whip with a mixer at low speed for 1-2 minutes<\/li>\n<li>Increase speed to high for 2-4 minutes until light and creamy<\/li>\n<li>Store in the refrigerator when not in use.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>NOTES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first mixing at low speed is to mix the ingredients well.\u00a0 The higher speed will incorporate some air bubbles into the butter spread<\/li>\n<li>Ten seconds in the microwave is an additional step the I take<\/li>\n<li>Cover tightly in the fridge.\u00a0 Tupperware works very well.<\/li>\n<li>Butter will keep for a couple of weeks, but will tend to get harder (due to evaporation) the longer it sets.<\/li>\n<li>If you are serving this with French bread, mix 1 TBL powdered garlic into the spread right at the very beginning.<\/li>\n<li>If you are looking for a dessert spread, mix 1 TBL cinnamon and 2 TBL sugar in right at the beginning.<\/li>\n<li>A citrus butter is good with muffins, waffles or pancakes.\u00a0 Mix in the zest and juice from one orange &#8211; skip the milk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INGREDIENTS 1 stick Tillamook or Fleishman&#8217;s (high quality) butter 2 TBL whole milk &#8211; DO NOT use skim or low-fat STEP BY STEP Let butter come up to room temperature Put into mixing bowl (not a food processor &#8211; too fast) Add warm milk Whip with a mixer at low speed for 1-2 minutes Increase &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/homemade-butter-spread\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Homemade Butter Spread&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-condiments-sauces","category-beatitudes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17577,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15900\/revisions\/17577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}