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Making salted butter during the butter shortage

This is not an economical way to make salted butter.  I'm only posting because there has been a butter shortage in Israel this year, and when I can find butter in the store, it's the small sticks of sweet butter, not the salted larger sticks we usually use in the Shaffren residence. Making butter is fun, you might want to do this with the kids. This is a "quick and dirty" way to make salted butter.  You'll need: sweet whipping cream, sold as "shamenet metukah", 38%, I usually see this in 250 ml sizes in the local supermarket a milchig blender two small milchig bowls like the kind you'd use for your morning cereal a place to put the butter when you're done so you can mold the finished butter - you can use aluminum foil, I use a regular butter tray Leave the container of cream out until it is at least at room temperature.  It's better to leave it out overnight.  Yes, that's what I said.  But room temperature will do if you're ...

Brownies

Posted by a friend on Facebook, this looks positively evil: Hershey's Brownies 3/4 cup oil 1 1/2 cups sugar 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla 3 eggs 3/4 cup flour 1/2 cup cocoa 1/2 tsp. baking powder 1/2 tsp. salt Mix everything. Pour into 9 inch round pan. Bake about 40 minutes at 350. Take out when still slightly jiggly in the middle, if you like your brownies gooey.