A smooth paste made primarily from butter, used in cooking or as a spread.
From butter + paste. Paste comes from Italian pasta (meaning dough) and Latin pasta. Butterpaste describes any emulsified butter mixture used in cooking.
French culinary tradition elevated butterpaste to an art form—beurre blanc, beurre noir, and compound butters are all butterpastes that transform simple sauces into something luxurious through technique.
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