Best - best butter

[skyep]

Our normal spread is ' Bertolli ' However, now & then we will buy best butter for a treat & sometimes feel disapointed in the lack of flavour of som. Which do you recommend?

[cruella]

Hi skyep
As a treat, we like Lurpac butter but I have used Clover for years now. I think it has a grreat taste but unfortunately it has been taken off the shelves for health and safety. Seems that something was in it that was either bad for you or something added by mistake.
So, we are now using Gold light. Not sure if I care for it ot not. Still prfer Lurpac or Clover.

[skyep]

Hi Cruella, I have bought Lurpack, although it may have been the unsalted variety, still , it didn't have a real buttery flavour. I have a distant memory of having some best butter at my nannas on some hovis bread, nothing like I have tasted recently.

[shaneystar2]

Kerrygold or Sainsburys Normandy butter.

[amonty1144]

danepak spreadable from lidl, lovely taste and reasonably priced

[society]

Kerrygold or any butter from New Zealand is delicious and pure creaminess.

[nickmo]

HI S - it all starts with the best ingredients, and the mass produced stuff can not match a true artisan product no matter what they spend on advertising to to try and suggest otherwise.

There are stacks of good butter, cream, cheese and all manner of dairy producers around the UK selling through farmers' markets and farm shops as well as at good delis.

The winner of the best butter in the country on a regular basis is Brenda Leddy with a herd of Jersey cattle in the Scottish Borders, at Stichill, near Kelso.

Her butter can be ordered - along with a Kelsae Cheese and double cream - in a pack from Caley Co. (Caledonian Conniseur) at : http://www.caleyco.com/item.asp?n=CALY232&f=1 and I can not recommend Brendas produce highly enough.

She personaly has input to all the goods - she makes a superb lemon curd by the way - and if you want a taste of real butter for the table, do order the pack... contact her direct and I'm sure she can arrange delivery of a pack direct if you fancy that. she also makes clotted cream, flavoured dips, pannacotta etc etc....! I won't pass on a tel no on this site, but just do a search on Stichill Jersey Herd and her details will come up...

There are other regional producers you can find near to you, but if its the best flavour you want - sorry, but leave the mass produced stuff alone.....

[Quizmonster]

It is now stocked by Tesco, so I no longer have to come back from France laden with the stuff! I refer to Pr�sident slightly-salted (demi sel) butter. Delicious!

[heathfield]

My own preference is Lurpak unsalted. With unsalted butters, the difference in weight is made up with extra cream, which is one reason they're a few pence dearer. (The other reason is keeping qualities - salted lasts longer, so less shelf wastage)

[skyep]

Thanks to everyone, plenty of suggestions to work through!!

[skyep]

nickmo - Thanks for your reply & link, looks delicous, will definately follow that up!!

[nickmo]

Hi S - glad to help. If you order off the site I know you won't be dissapointed...

Bon appetit!