What is Normandy Butter?!


Question: What is Normandy Butter?
I have heard of "Normandy Butter" as a being an vary expensive delicacy. What makes this butter so great and so costly?

Answers:

Normandy is considered the dairy capitol of France, similar to what Wisconsin is to the US. French butter, and most European butter, actually, is made from cultured (fermented) milk, so it naturally has a slightly tart taste. The butter from Normandy is considered to be especially rich and flavorful by the French.



Think how many French recipes involve butter, and how well butter goes with baking, another French expertise, and you can begin to understand that they know their butter very well. Butter and cheesemaking are closely related as both are cultured with local bacteria strains developed over a long history, and you must know how much variety they enjoy. They consume more butter per person than any other European country, and they are the largest exporter of butter. They prefer the best, not the cheapest. They institute tight controls over standards and labelling of food products.

Does this mean they have magic cows? No. They have dairy cows located in environments that are well suited to the milk products they create. Butter picks up flavors of the milk from the cows feed and environment. Butters can also be cultured with local lactobacillus strains that give a unique flavor to the region and producer. This might seem to be a lot of marketing talk, but it isn't. Butters can and do taste different when the flavor is intentionally controlled using these factors. Even sea salt can have remarkably different taste based on the local minerals, as can be easily tasted by comparing sel gris and Fleur de Sel with ordinary tablesalt. So how to explain the difference in taste? Some call it richer and having a nuttier flavor than other butters. But you really have to buy some to taste it. It's just as difficult to describe the differences of taste between cheeses from different producers, even though it's the same general variety.

I've travelled throughout France, including Normandy and Brittany, two famous dairy regions.



The only info I can find is 'butter churned from cows in Normandy'.
Butter here in Australia ain't too cheap neither!
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I have not take the Normandy Butter taste. so I cannot suggest you...........



because some one said it was
and so they can charge what they want



Viking lube.




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