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YOUR BUTTER NATURE

We bake with it, slather it on scones, melt it over steak and drizzle it over pancakes. Butter is a solid staple in our culinary adventures. So what makes one butter better than another? Well, first of all, it’s not just about what goes into the churn; what’s left out is just as important.

PURE BUTTER PRACTICES

Butter is extremely good for you if it’s pure and without additives. It’s when we start adding ingredients like preservatives that really don’t need to be included that it becomes unhealthy.

Ulli Spranz, owner of biodynamic organic dairy farm B.-d Farm Paris Creek, believes butter should be made from only fresh cream with nothing else added or removed, and no additional processing should occur.

To understand the reason behind this we need to travel back in time to before we had the modern convenience of refrigeration.

“If butter is

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