Hi Amanda, There are a couple reasons that a lot of recipes call for unsalted butter: One is that the developer of the recipe feels there's enough salt in ingredients and salted butter would overwhelm the dish. The other is some authors of recipes feel less salt is healthier. For the most part, I ignore them and use salted butter anyway, and I don't find there's any problem with the end results.
hth Jennifer On 3/31/12, Penny Reeder <penny.ree...@gmail.com> wrote: > Unsalted butter is purer than salted butter. Some food processors add > salt to cover up the taste of impurities in their butter. If you buy > unsalted butter, you know that's all you're getting -- just butter! > Penny > > On 3/31/12, Amanda Wilson <moonro...@bellsouth.net> wrote: >> How come in every recipe in every book i have read they use unsalted >> butter? >> Is this because you add salt later? >> Thanks, from Amanda >> _______________________________________________ >> Cookinginthedark mailing list >> Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org >> http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark >> > _______________________________________________ > Cookinginthedark mailing list > Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org > http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark > _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark