Compound butter

Butter mixed with other ingredients

A New York strip steak topped with beurre maître d’hôtel, served with potatoes and creamed spinach Kronfleisch (skirt steak), a traditional Bavarian dish. Served with onion rings, rye bread, compound butter (with herbs and garlic – beurre à la bourguignonne), and horseradish

Compound butters (French: beurre composé, pl. beurres composés) are mixtures of butter and other ingredients used as a flavoring, in a fashion similar to a sauce.[1][2][3]

Compound butters can be made or bought. A compound butter can be made by whipping additional elements, such as herbs, spices or aromatic liquids, into butter. It is usually re-formed and chilled before being melted on top of meats and vegetables, used as a spread, or used to finish sauces.

Beurres composés include:

* Beurre à la bourguignonne – garlic and parsley butter
* Beurre maitre d'hotel, butter with parsley and lemon juice
* Café de Paris butter
* Garlic butter
* Beurre au citron – lemon butter

## See also

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* Beurre manié, butter mixed with flour, used as a thickener in cooking
* Cannabis butter or cannabutter, butter blended with cannabis and water, generally used in baking.
* Egg butter

## References

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1. ^ Auguste Escoffier (1903), Le Guide culinaire, Editions Flammarion
2. ^ Julia Child (1961), Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Alfred A. Knopf
3. ^ Larousse Gastronomique (1961), Crown Publishers
(Translated from the French, Librairie Larousse, Paris (1938))

## External links

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* Media related to Compound butters at Wikimedia Commons

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