Cooking with Jonny69: Aberdeen butteries

[Jonny69]

Here's one for all you crash dieters: the Aberdeen buttery. The story goes that Scottish fishermen were fed up eating ships biscuits. They got a baker to come up with something else that would keep at sea but be a bit more palatable. The solution was the buttery, a bread dough with huge amounts of salt, butter and fat folded into it to make it keep

I'm always up for some artery-stretching food and these are guaranteed to shorten your life significantly, even if you only eat one. I adapted this recipe down to 300g of flour and didn't use the lard, so that she could eat them (veggie). It's essentially a conventional white bread dough, rolled out with butter spread over it, folded, then repeated until you have about the same amount of butter folded in as weight of flour. You get a golden brown buttery, crispy-edged, layered bread item like a manly version of a croissant. I prefer it to a croissant - absolutely delicious.

The 300g recipe made 6 quite large butteries which keep for about a week. They work better if you can wake them up again in the toaster or oven.

Eating is hard work. You need to be hungry and expect to feel a bit overloaded afterwards

 

[Jonny69]

Saw these on the hairy bikers the other night.

I saw them on telly recently too, but I think it was Coast or something?

It was one of those HAVE TO MAKE THESE moments

Loving the idea of stuffing them with mature cheddar

 

[Jonny69]

Lol, I'm making some more while I work from home. I can say categorically that they are a LOT easier to make if you chill the dough in between applications of butter!