Posted on 09/28/2022 8:36:12 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
When it comes to cooking and baking, it’s a truth universally acknowledged that butter just makes things better.
But with the holiday season coming up, many may have to scramble to find enough butter for their baked goods. That’s according to the Wall Street Journal, which recently reported on a dairy shortage in the U.S. due to staffing issues and lower milk production.
With less butter on shelves and in storage facilities (reportedly the lowest since 2017), that means the price of the yellow stuff has gone up. Over the last year, butter prices have gone up by more than 24.6%, the Wall Street Journal reported, with overall store prices going up by 13.5%
However, the dairy industry is well aware of the issue and is working to supply Americans with the products they need in the months to come.
“We want to run the assets we have harder when we can get more milk off farm,” Joe Coote, chief executive at Darigold Inc, told the Journal.
Those gearing up for the big baking season ahead, should note butter does freeze well, and that there are plenty of substitutes for recipes including: Crisco, olive oil and coconut oil.
No, butter is good! Really good! Especially the butter from pastured cows. I live for Irish Gold butter lol.
I like to mix the heavy cream until it is close to butter and put it on English muffins with strawberry preserves. Almost like clotted cream.
Paula Deen will be on suicide watch.
just in time for the holidays!!
Nooooo!!
Frozen, here, it lasts until the next hurricane................😁
Sounds great, the story about a butter shortages is meant to scare or rile people up when equal or better alternatives exist although not a convenient as buying sticks of pre made butter in the store
The milk section at my local Midwest grocer has been rather bare recently. I can still by milk, but over half of the shelves are empty.
lmfao!
Bought butter last week. six dollars a pound.
“We’ll just dip into the Strategic Butter Reserve.”
LOL!
Save your bacon drippings and make a Poor Man’s Cake.
Exactly!!
Strategy: Create a scarcity of an item (like butter) real or imagined. Raise the price. Sell it out fast to hoarders at the inflated price. Make lots’a money!
Rinse & repeat.
In addition scare people into believing that government comes to the rescue who probably has millions of tons of butter in stockpiles
“A butter shortage isn’t going to help the President’s effort to end hunger in America. “
...I get the biggest kick out of seeing the average “hungry” American. Some people in my office organize a “feed the hungry” thing every year. They take pics for Facebook of course, because why would you do anything charitable without trying to make a buck from it. Everybody in line for food is 50lbs minimum overweight, wearing Air Jordans and have Apple 12’s or whatever. Pathetic.
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