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How to butter a dish or a mould easily

Name: How to butter a dish or a mould easily
Prep time: 1 min
Total time: 1 min
Yield: 1 dish
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 1 knob butter

Often when making gratins, crumbles or other oven-cooked dishes, you will need to butter the dish or mould. To butter (or grease) means to rub inside the mould with a knob of butter to prevent the mixture sticking too much.

Instead of putting a knob of butter in the dish and wiping with paper, here is a smart and quicker way.

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1 min.

Easy

1 dish

1 Ingredient

Last modified on: February 21^th 2011

For 1 dish, you will need:

1 1 knob butter
Total weight: 10 grams

Times for this recipe

Preparation: 1 min.

Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - ⌛ 1 min.

How to butter a dish or a mould easily : Stage 1

Remove butter from wrapper, and put in a dish. Use the butter paper to rub inside the dish or mould.

Usually, there is enough butter still on the paper so you shouldn't need to add any more.

After use, wrap butter in its paper again.

Source: Home made.

Nutritional information

	Proteins (gr)	Carbohydrates (gr)	Fats (gr)	Energy value (in k-calories)	Energy value (in k-joules)
Whole recipe	0	0	8 RDI=1 %	80 RDI=4 %	320 RDI: 4 %
Per 100 g	0	0	80 RDI=10 %	760 RDI=40 %	3,180 RDI: 40 %

Possible allergens in this recipe: milk

How much will it cost?

For 1 dish : 0.10 €

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This recipe uses (among others)

Butter

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