The Butter Book

Everyone loves butter- and now there’s finally a book that celebrates the staple ingredient in all its rich, creamy glory. The Butter Book is the most comprehensive butter guide out there: packed with history, reliable kitchen wisdom, and irresistible recipes. Not to mention, it’s designed to look like an actual stick of butter with the classic vellum wrapper, blue typography and velvety yellow pages.

Drawing on years spent in test kitchens, the book’s author Anna Stockwell guides readers through the processes of buying, making and transforming butter - how to whip it, clarify it, brown it, emulsify it - into something magical. Whether butter is the star of the dish or the finishing touch that brings everything together, the recipes and techniques in this book reveal its remarkable power to elevate everyday cooking.

From turning a humble pot of rice into something revelatory to bringing richness to dishes like Butter-Basted Scallops with Beurre Blanc, Butter Roast Chicken, and Butterscotch Pudding, The Butter Book shows why butter is the ingredient cooks return to again and again. Compound butter recipes in flavours like Seaweed, Hot Honey, and Raspberry-Thyme offer fresh inspiration, while step-by-step instructions for crafting butter boards and sculptures add a touch of artistry that blends food, design, and creative entertaining.

This book isn’t just about cooking, it’s about delight. Through twenty irresistible full-colour photographs, Stockwell presents a world of collectible butter accessories, clever kitchen ideas, and buttery trivia that link this everyday ingredient to centuries of food culture and craft. Each page brims with the warm, generous spirit of butter itself. From butter boards on TikTok and restaurants serving towering “butter mountains,” to butter-yellow having its moment in fashion and home décor - The Butter Book continues the ingredient’s enduring- and ever-expanding - cultural moment, both inside and outside the kitchen.