If you've ever made hollandaise sauce, you know that clarified butter is magical. Also called liquid gold, it is an ingredient humans have been preparing and using for millennia. That said, it's a ...

Butter is an ancient prepared food, having been made by people at least 4,000 years ago. Some of the earliest known recipes for making butter call for the use of a container made from animal skin. The ...

Pick up some cream and get ready to churn. Stacey Ballis is a novelist, cookbook author, and food writer with 20 years of experience. She has authored a cookbook called "Big Delicious Life," in ...

After growing up on a farm, the Minnesota State Fair's relatively new butter sculptor says he had never dreamt of sculpting butter, but he is thrilled to be putting his hands in it. Gerry Kulzer, ...

Butter is back. After decades as a dietary pariah, it’s a star ingredient in everything from brown butter pasta to gooey butter cake, and you may have noticed the growing variety at the supermarket.

In a year of rising food costs, butter became the year's most unlikely trend—not despite economic pressure, but because of it. Here's how a dairy surplus fueled viral marketing campaigns and made ...