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CHOCOLATE WEETBIX SLICE
3 Weet-Bix biscuits
1 cup (85g) desiccated coconut
1/2 cup (120g) caster sugar
1 cup (150g) self-raising flour
2 tablespoons cocoa
150g Lard Ass cultured salted butter, melted
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 1/2 cups icing sugar mixture
Extra 1 tablespoon cocoa
2 tablespoon melted butter
3 tablespoons hot water
DAY 5: WHAT COLOUR IS BUTTER? MY FINAL DAY
Well, I’ve learned it’s not just yellow.
Butter comes from different animals, flavours, creams, diets, care practices and therefore, can be different colours. So much so that the USDA issue a colour chart for butter as a guide.
DAY 4: SO MUCH TO KNOW SO LITTLE TIME
Butter making – it’s an art and a science I have learned this week.
The science is in monitoring things like pH, temperature, TA, litres, grams, kilograms, moisture content, etc.
DAY 3: I THINK I’M DOING OK WHEN IT COMES TO BUTTER MAKING
The week is flying by and it’s the 3rd day of the butter making apprenticeship. To give you a bit of a background to students in the course, there are 9 of us enrolled and we have come from a dairy background of some sort.
DAY 2: BUTTER MAKING BATCHES 1, 2 & 3
Today we swung into action and made butter!
Our instructor today was the illustrious Robert (Bob) Bradley who in the circles of butter making is spoken about in the same vein as a celebrity.