Black butter, locally known as Du Nier Beurre in Jersey, an Island country near France, is a unique medieval recipe made from harvested apples, cider, sugar, spices, liquorice and lemons. It can be used in vegan dishes too.
You can enjoy black butter on toast, biscuits and even on its own. You can also make several sweet treats like black butter pudding and black butter crème brulee with black butter.
You can buy black butter from La Mare Wine Estate in the northern region of Jersey. It has a semi-fluid consistency and can be consumed with white meats as well.
To make a quick and easy black butter ice cream sandwich, take cookies or biscuits of your choice and add a layer of vanilla ice cream in the middle. Drizzle some black butter on top and enjoy it during hot Summer days.
If you want to make black butter at home, boil cider until it turns to jelly then add apples while stirring. Add sugar, liquorice and lemons to the mix and cook for 2 hours. In the last ten minutes of cooking add the spices.
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