Real Butter

So, in trying to eat a less processed diet we tried switching from margarine (which is vegetable oil based but has trans fats) to whipped butter (which has saturated fat but less than regular butter because it has more air in it than regular butter)

We learned that cooking with REAL butter (or whipped butter) when doing things like gravies, pastries etc, makes a HUGE difference. In my biscuits and gravy recipe I used to use margarine and flour to make a rou and it took forEVER to get it to mix in with the milk. When I used real butter it was almost INSTANT!

So, for those of you trying to fight the good (health) fight. For cooking, and for your health, real butter may actually be better...