Salted butter

Beurre demi-sel

What it is

Brittany was exempt from the gabelle, the salt tax that crushed the rest of France, so Breton dairies salted their butter freely while everyone else could not afford to. A tax boundary drawn centuries ago still divides French breakfast tables.

In the kitchen

Reduce the salt elsewhere in the recipe, especially in baking. Demi-sel carries enough to matter in a cake.

Goes with

T65 bread flour Maple syrup Radish Dark chocolate Apple Buckwheat groats Honey Potato

Same species

Churned butter

Also used with

Roscoff pink onion Dry sausage Liège syrup Andouille Buckwheat flour Rye flour

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