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All Buttered Up

Whether cut into flour for scones or piecrust, laminated into dough for puff pastry, creamed with sugar for cakes and cookies, or simply brushed onto a bread loaf warm from the oven, butter just can’t be beat. But with so many options available, it can be hard to know which to choose. Here’s the Bake from Scratch guide to butter.

There are numerous brands and styles of butter to choose from, but all butter is created the same way: cream is churned or stirred until the solids and liquid separate. The liquid is buttermilk, and

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