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Attention Master Bakers!

Discussion in 'Lounge' started by pingping010101, Jun 30, 2014.

  1. Sadly, this might have been true in the past when Anchor NZ butter was still for sale (if you like salty butter that is, which I do myself).

    However, without much publicity, the Anchor brand was sold to a company called ARLA (who also now own Lurpak) a couple of years back (maybe more). In a desperately cynical move, they renamed the product "Anchor Original Butter" and instead of being the former superb quality Kiwi product, it is now some sort of industrial British butter. I noticed a terrible change in taste during the switchover period, which was initially restricted to the regular blocks, but later applied also to the easy-to-spread stuff (which as a result, oddly, tasted much better than the blocks for a while).

    If anyone used to like Anchor but doesn't any more, the closest I have found is "Morning Fresh" salted butter from LIDL - in a yellow pack and for less than £1. It's not clear where it comes from in the EU (variable I suspect) but in my book it beats "Anchor Original" hands down on flavour and price. For a treat I do like good French butter though!
     
  2. It's because they changed the actual amount of butter in the butter.
    For treats and baking you cannot beat this

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  3. In my limited experience, olive oil makes a better loaf compared to butter.
     
  4. Try making a Naan. I cheat a bit by using one of those packets of Bread mix chuck it in a breadmaker on the dough only setting and use a large pot of natural yoghurt instead of water.

    If I did it by hand I would use Veg Ghee for the fat content
     
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