Is Your Bread Buttered?
>> Saturday, 21 February 2009
I was 17, it was my first job and someone in the office innocently asked what each of us had for breakfast that morning. Sean sat upright in his chair and said boldly with dignity and pride, “I had buttered bread.” Everyone grew quiet; there was awkwardness in the room. Suddenly we all got busy, mumbled about having a busy day and buried our heads into the files on our desk. Clearly we all thought the same thing – poor Sean, all he had for breakfast was bread and butter...
Why the awkwardness you ask? Read the column and you'll understand why.
Butterflaps have long been a favourite on the Guyanese food-scene, these days I don't think that they are as popular and I'm not sure why. I can guess though that it probably has to do with the quality not being up to standard.
Butterflaps are white bread dough that's been cut into pieces, rolled, liberally spread with butter and folded over twice (hence the flap) and baked. Just as they come out of the oven, they are loving caressed with some warm, melted butter! Oh gosh, I want one right now (lol)
For excellent butterflaps you have to start with a really high-quality salted butter. I recently brought a can of some good Dutch salted butter that I used in this recipe. For a step by step demo of the process along with instructions, follow this link. You can use any white-bread dough recipe, however if you prefer to use the one I used, email me and I'll send it to you right away.
It's party time in the Caribbean this week, Trinidad & Tobago is celebrating Carnival and Guyana is celebrating it's Republic Anniverary with Mashramani! Have a great time everyone!
If you're Roman Catholic and looking for a Caribbean-European-styled recipe for Pancakes to make on Shrove Tuesday, click here for my recipe. See here also.
69 comments:
I would be that person saying buttered bread, well, acutally buttered whole grain bread. I bet those rolls smelled D I V I N E while cooking.
FABULOUS!!
I love their unusual shape! I bet they taste really good!
Cheers,
Rosa
Oh Gosh! I want one right now too!!!
A wonderful coloumn cynthia, yeah we were all once naive like that.
I have to tell you when i was young we never had bread only when we were sich and sometimes mom gave us bread if she was in real hurry and it was also butterd bread slices or with jam, having both together was like luxury :-)
I love the shape of the bread so sweet looking.
I love this article Cynthia, it evokes some real feeling considering the state of the economy and food prices.
When I bake bread, my husband and kids devour it smeared in butter and then want nothing more at the next meal. Add some cheese, grains and herbs and your bread is a hearty meal! :)
Wow...the shape is different...
Great column! I want one of those buttered breads right now too!!
Love the flaps Cynthia...and oh yes I like my bread buttered ! I feel like joining two to make butterfly wings...lol.
Those look gorgeous...how simple yet so elegant.
cynthia, what beautiful, buttery pillows of bread these are. im quite surprised to hear they arent popular any more.i will have to try these soon :)
They look gorgeous! and the butter in the middle....oh my...sinful! But I can't wait to have 1 with kaya =)
Oh, wow -- I've never seen anything like this before. This bread is WELL buttered. Oh, what a luxury. Thinly sliced bread and butter with honey (whole grain) is the best!
I just discovered your blog--wish I had found it sooner! Anyway, OMG does this sound good. My husband and I are not big bread eaters, we do not eat it with every meal the way some do, BUT when I make homemade bread he will arrange his day around getting home in time to eat the bread while it is hot, slathered in good European style salted butter. So I know we would love these. Thanks for sharing.
OMG!! your description of butterflaps just makes me wanna grab some!!!
I love fresh hot breads & butter!!That could be a luxurious breakast for me:-) I can almost smell these breads Cynthia! what an unuusal shape they have.
Oh, my. That's some serious buttered bread! We used to love the cultured butter - European - but now ... now we eat the lower-your-cholesterol stuff. Sigh. ;)
Those have my mouth watering!! They would be perfect with the soup I'm making tonight!
The bread buttered has a "low reputation", God I ve eaten all my school life Baguette and butter! Not even our indian breakf!
This bread is simply a luxurious one!
Cynthia, these little buttered breads look amazing, really appetizing!!MMMM....I am from Belgium & we can buy this lovely butter!
I'll have mine buttered, please and thank you!
Cynthia, I am drooling over the last pictures, if only I could get my hands on one of them...
I have not read the column, but Sean would have got the exact same response if he were in my class too. Back home we ate bread and butter only when were sick but these butterflaps you have here are special.
Off to read the column to find out!
Cynthia,
What a teaser you are ;-)
With a roll like that you need nothing else but some hot tea or hot cocoa for breakfast.
I'm glad that you like this butter too.
How pretty looking and what an unusual shape!
WOw, bread and butter is a luxury :-) it is funny how cultural the different opinions are. I absolutely loooove fresh warm bread with a dollop of butter, if that was supposed to mean i cannot afford anything else, I probably would nto want to anyway :-)
Great column, Cyn...
Looks yummy Cynthia! All the buttery goodness! Absolutely divine. Hurrying to shoot an email to you :)
Life can never be good without butter..what great great buttered bread this is. Flapping good Cynthia!!
These look so delicious! I am going to try this with my usual bread recipe.
In my opinion bread, butter and a bowl of hot chocolate is the most beautiful breakfast in the world.
Emailed ya!
Almost sounds like Puff pastry, looks delicious. I would have one for breakfast easily, don't care what people say. Life is too short to worry about that! ;D
Hey, if you add garlic and herbs with butter, you will have a fab garlic butter bread!
We have Shiva Ratri festival tomorrow, am busy cooking, veg only dishes. Have a fun Sunday, see you next week! :)
These look so phenomenal!
ooh, they look so cute..not a term I often use for food! :)They look like playful little smileys :) Would love to have one right now...
I just had my dinner but I want me some butterflaps right now!!! :)
Butter inside and out???? How sinfull can you get!!!!
Wow when you work with comfort foods you should be generous. That is what with butter also. Yummy bread.....
sounds divine and I bet the aroma was just as good! I've had some similar bread like this where it is folded over with a piece of butter and baked...I could just eat it by itself.
Cynthia, you never stop surprise me with the beauty of simplicity! Wish I could fly to your house right now and taste that butterflaps!!!
ooooooh lala...and reading this in the morning, you know what it does to me
lol, I laughed when I read this. My grandmother, my mom, and now myself--all of us LOVE toast with butter and have it for breakfast every morning with coffee :)
Fresh bread out of the oven is one of my favorite smells and tastes!
The rolls look fabulous! I love the shape!~
Butter Bread, butter flap, bread-n-butter, buttered bread, hot bread with butter... they are all the same to me. Bread IS my weakness period. Nuff said!
You know already my fondness for breakfast and its main characters (to me): bread and butter !
I've never tried butterflap, but they look indeed very good !
Between my little girl and I, we definitely can pop a few of those down within a minute. :) Who can resist the great butter smell n taste.
Okay I want those NOW! I love fresh bread and butter .. sounds like the ideal breakfast to me :)
I LOVE Butter Flaps, the ones you made look lovely. Im trying to change my eating habits, so no butter flaps for me this time, but soon!
Happy Carnival Cynthia! I have never heard of butter flaps before, but their buttery wrinkle would be great for opening and filling with more butter and jam. They look like golden-brown breads from heaven!
My fries are buttered, definitely! Pop by and have a look :)
These remind me of Parker house Rolls. Yumm.
I also share Happy Cook's view. Even we ate bread only when we were sick. I don't really understand the reason even now. The butterfly bread looks so cute and tempting.
Great article Cynthia! My mouth is watering just looking at them and I'm still full from dinner!
They look so lovely, Cynthia. though i would feel guilty about making up a whole batch, I would love to beg, borrow or steal a few from your kitchen ;-)
These butter flaps look delish!!I love bread and butter--it's a classic..
Butter upon more butter. How could that be anything but good? ;)
wow, the bread looks so tempting.
HOW CUTE ARE THESE??? I just want to keep popping them in my mouth!
Hi Cynthia! These butterflaps looks wonderful, and sound soooo good! That little guy in class who said he had bread and butter for breakfast would get along just fine with me! lol Bread...its just addictive, isn't it? :-) I love the perfect shape of the rolls too.
my hubby would love your butter bread!! he live with butter bread daily! ..I love the shape,nicely done!
Yeah, I wonder what the origins are - "bread well buttered on both sides" and "not enough money for jam, just bread and butter" - I mean, it looks like luxury in one and subsistence in another.
When we were kids, a cow/buffalo would be brought home everyday to be milked and we would get fresh white butter too - put that on thick slices of bakery bread and smear it with some jam - that was such a wonderful treat!
Mmm looks yummy, would be good for breakfast right now. :)
Happy belated Carnival! I love these...and I love that tin can of butter!
I love buttered bread and these rolls with butter inside and out look super delicious :-)
These resemble "Parker House rolls", well to me it does. You are pure at heart! These rolls look smashingly good!Butter me up baby!
Cynthia, these buns look amazing. I love the color and shape. Yummy!!
More beautiful bread!
We al have these moments in our lives, Cynthia. But if we can learna s we go along in life, then its fine.:)
Those butterflaps look very tempting.
It must be flaky and soft anddelicious because of the buttered flaps ...mmmmm yummy :)
Looking for something to bring to the mingle...and obsessed with bread of late...do these fantastic, gorgeous, mouthwatering butterflaps count as a good recipe for her theme this month??
Even if not, must make them. The butter right now is excellent locally...lots of spring grass...so these would celebrate that perfectly.
Oh I love the butterflaps! Twice-buttered bread - what's not to love?!
Thanks for the butterflaps recipe and permission, Cynthia. I have made them many times since then.
In fact, my daughter is eating one as I write this comment. :)
I finally posted my version on my blog. Though they're not as pretty as yours, they taste excellent.
http://mydiversekitchen.blogspot.com/2009/07/butterflaps.html
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