Cenovis is a dark brown commercial seasoning mix with a strong smell and a salty taste. Like Marmite or Vegemite, it is a yeast extract, made from brewer’s yeast, “plant extracts”, and sea salt. It has a slightly clearer, and slightly smoother taste than Marmite, but as for Marmite or Vegemite, people either love it…
Spreads
Light Butter
Light Butter is a term used to refer to a butter with less butterfat content than normal. It does not refer to the colour, so don’t go looking for the opposite, a “dark butter”, unless you mean “brown butter.” Light Butter is made from pasteurised milk, and is almost always made industrially — e.g. you…
Maple Butter
Maple Spread © Denzil Green Genuine Maple Butter does not contain any butter; rather, it is a spread made from 100% maple syrup. The syrup used to be cooked down to a spread consistency. It would be formed into blocks of very thick Maple Butter wrapped in waxed paper. Keeping it spreadable, though, was always…
Potted Meats
Potted Meats is a generic term used to mean meat that is canned, or meat or pieces of meat preserved in a savoury jelly.The term broadly includes items such as Brawn, Spam, tinned or jarred meat spreads, baby food, devilled ham, canned chicken spread, confits, rillettes, and beef paste. It also includes canned meats, anything…
Spreadable Butter
Normally, butter is only spreadable if left out of the fridge for those blessed few months of the year when the cold will not make it hard, or the heat turns it into a puddle of rancid yellow oil. Consequently, many people, tired of massacring a poor piece of bread while trying to spread it…
Spreads
In the food world, the term “Spreads” generally means “spreadable fats.” The fats can be vegetable or animal in origin. Though one might immediately think of butter or margarine when one thinks of spreads, there are also meat spreads, such as potted meats or potted shrimp. And there are confectionary ones, which are often chocolate…
Whipped Butter
Whipped butter is butter that is whipped to incorporate either nitrogen gas or air. The goal is to make it easy to spread even when chilled, and to increase its volume. That being said, it is not really spreadable straight from the fridge, but it will get softer outside the fridge faster than regular butter….