To butter or not to butter

silverlining48

Norah I like Brötchen, lovely fir breakfast, not seen them here, but never heard of stangenbrot.

Precisely why I make our bread, we like German/Austrian breads and dislike store bought breads (never seen Brotchen Suffolk).

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silverlining48

Norah I like Brötchen, lovely fir breakfast, not seen them here, but never heard of stangenbrot.

How much more exciting things sound in another language!
Nothing exotic about Brötchen or Stangenbrot - they are just bread rolls and what we often call a French stick respectively.

Why are people so obsessed by doing things the 'proper' way, rather than the way they prefer ?
Hear, hear, Monica ! We’re all grown up women so who’s checking? (Who cares?)

I lived in Brittany for some of my childhood. Butter was always on the table with everything, always with bread.
But why would you spread Brie and Camembert? I know they're soft, but squashing the daylights out of them isn't really done. You can buy crème de brie in a tub if you want to do that.

RosiesMaw2

silverlining48

Norah I like Brötchen, lovely fir breakfast, not seen them here, but never heard of stangenbrot.

How much more exciting things sound in another language!
Nothing exotic about Brötchen or Stangenbrot - they are just bread rolls and what we often call a French stick respectively.

No exotic at all, just what mum taught us to make. Simple preference.

No butter needed. Perhaps wurst needed in brotchen.

It's a matter of taste, whichever people prefer.

JudyBloom

It's a matter of taste, whichever people prefer.

Exactly, but it’s fun to know what other people like as long as they’re not insisting theirs is the proper way.

Mollygo

JudyBloom

It's a matter of taste, whichever people prefer.

Exactly, but it’s fun to know what other people like as long as they’re not insisting theirs is the proper way.

OP did ask if it was the “done thing”
It’s a thing.
It is done.

Decisions, decisions, 🤷‍♀️ As scarlet would say: I’ll think about that tomorrow.

I am a glutton for butter, and will gladly eat it with any sort of bread and cheese, but during my year in France, and subsequent visits, I was never once offered butter with the cheese course.
I don’t spread the Brie, just cut a small chunk and perch on the bread. I’m wishing there was some in the fridge now, to go with the unopened bottle of wine.
What other French cheeses do you like?

If you're questioning for a gathering - perhaps lay out breads, butter, cheeses, jams - choices. Everyone can decide what they prefer.

I got used to eating cheese in Françe with a few well dressed salad leaves, no bread or butter, each to their own.

Wouldn't the cheese just fall off if there was no butter underneath to stick it to the bread?

JackyB

Wouldn't the cheese just fall off if there was no butter underneath to stick it to the bread?

That's why I put butter on scones with my cream tea, to make the clotted cream adhere to it.
Butter first!

Norah

If you're questioning for a gathering - perhaps lay out breads, butter, cheeses, jams - choices. Everyone can decide what they prefer.

Seems obvious.
You wouldn’t butter bread/rolls whatever in advance anyway, would you?

merlotgran

^Is this to do with U and non U?^

It could well be 😂

The only U/non-U I’m aware of re bread and butter, is that you’re supposed (supposedly!) to break pieces off a bread roll before eating it (buttered or not) rather than either cutting it or biting bits off it.

Joseann

I lived in Brittany for some of my childhood. Butter was always on the table with everything, always with bread.
But why would you spread Brie and Camembert? I know they're soft, but squashing the daylights out of them isn't really done. You can buy crème de brie in a tub if you want to do that.

completely agree Joseanne

Norah

If you're questioning for a gathering - perhaps lay out breads, butter, cheeses, jams - choices. Everyone can decide what they prefer.

I love your posts norah always very respectful and kind.

I can see why the thread was started.
On here, a casual chat about something one does can lead to a storm of responses, expressing how wrong you've been getting things, and that people's mothers never did that...

U or nonU, it's up to you.

The French think it is sacrilegious to use butter with cheese. Personally, I love them together..l

Do whatever you want.

I do! 😁🍷

Not only do I have to eat gluten free bread (ugh) but am not able to eat dairy either. How I miss ‘proper’ bread, cheese and butter.

I don't need the bread! When I buy brie/(the other one) I don't wait for them to soften! I munch as they are.

For me, if I want cheese, I'll eat cheese. That and the fact French bread, have NEVER bought it since seeing someone sneeze over the packets as the ends always stick out! Those and the 'help yourself bakery' items. Kids grubby hands..... and coughers and sneezers!

This was before Covid too!