Fats and oils
Butter
Allowed — On the allowed list of the leaflet this book follows and of every hospital compared.
The leaflet this book follows asks for fat in moderation, but butter is this book's main fortifier.
Recipes using it
- Baked chicken parmigiana
- Bangers and mash with onion gravy
- Battered fish with swede and carrot mash
- Beef ragù with white tagliatelle
- Karl Marx's beetroot and potato soup
- Vanilla blancmange
- Slow-braised beef with swede and carrot mash
- Bread and butter pudding without the fruit
- Buttered brioche with warm tinned peaches
- Buttermilk pancakes with golden syrup and warm pear
- Butternut and carrot soup with a cream swirl
- Cauliflower cheese, florets only
- Cheese and potato bake
- Cheese sauce
- Cheese scones
- Chicken and ham bake in white sauce
- Beatrice Webb's chicken and leek pie
- Chicken and rice broth in a mug
- Chicken blanquette
- Honey-butter cornflake clusters
- Cottage pie for two with silky mash
- Cream cheese and Marmite toast fingers
- Cream of cauliflower soup with a cheese crouton
- Cream of chicken soup
- Creamy chicken and white wine casserole
- Creamy chicken and Parmesan tagliatelle
- The Boulevard Saint-Michel croque monsieur
- Clear dashi with silken tofu and egg ribbons
- Fish pie for two
- Semolina gnocchi alla romana
- Smooth tomato soup with cream
- Greek lemon chicken and potatoes
- Ham and cheese toastie with a cup of gravy
- Chicken and potato stew with creamed courgette
- Key lime pie for two
- Lemon curd tarts
- Macaroni cheese for one
- Marmite and cheese melts
- Warm Marmite broth
- Smooth tomato sauce
- Pasta with butter and Parmesan
- Pastina in brodo
- Pink pasta with passata and mascarpone
- Plain scones with jam and cream
- Poached chicken mayonnaise sandwich
- Potato and leek velouté
- Potato gnocchi in sage-infused butter
- Potted salmon on thin white toast
- Prawn and passata linguine
- Quorn bolognese with white spaghetti
- Rice pudding with a burnt sugar top
- Roast chicken thighs with gravy and mash for two
- Saffron risotto
- Salmon in a paper parcel with butter sauce
- Salmon and potato fishcakes with lemon butter
- Semolina with stewed apple
- Smooth cheese dip with breadsticks
- Smooth gravy
- Gramsci's soft cheesy polenta
- Lemon sole in brown butter with silky mash
- Steamed cod in white sauce
- Kollontai's steamed white fish with soy butter
- Sticky toffee-style pudding without the dates
- Steamed syrup sponge for two
- Toad in the hole for two
- Warm tinned peaches with ice cream and caramel
- Welsh rarebit on crustless white toast
- White sauce, the master recipe
- White toast, done properly