butter - helps keep food??????

[nazar]

hi there, new to tmx (just bought one) and new to this forum (first post)......
firstly, just want to say that it took us 7 months to finally commit to spending such a large amount of money.
we have had it a month now, and i have used it quite a bit,,,,,, from a male perspective (one that seldomly cooks, and a very limited list of recipes..... - its great...... the more i can help Michelle out with the children and cooking -  the better

the question

I made up some rock cakes for the second time (out of the book you get with the machine - and everybody loves them),

But the second time I made them up – I forgot to put in the butter..

They actually turned out just as good as the first lot (with the butter in them)…

A friend told me that the butter is a keeping (or preserving) agent – so I should eat them relatively quickly??

My question is – is butter a keeping (or preserving) agent……… cos I cant find anything about it on the internet..
 
The reason I ask, is because animal products usually have a short shelf life compared to vegetables…. But then again, there might be something in milk/butter.

and i prefer not to eat butter/marg if i can get away with it..

just out of interest, i stopped eating butter/marg in sandwiches when i was a teen.. (took a couple of months to get use to it)..
but then i had a sandwich with butter or marg in, and i found it killed the taste of all the other ingredients in the sandwich so never wanted butter ever since..


any help with the above question would be great thanks

[judydawn]

Hi nazar, welcome to the forum with your first posting. I've never heard that butter is a preserving agent so I can't answer your question, it is a tricky one, but someone may come up with an answer.  Lucky wife having a DH like you who helps with the cooking etc. Lots of lovely cake and biscuit recipe on this forum, have you tried any of those?

[Merrilyn]

Hi Nazar and welcome to the forum.

I actually did the very same thing, just last weekend.  Made sultana muffins for lunch boxes but forgot to put the butter in them.  They tasted the same but became stale very quickly, so unfortunately ( ) we had to eat them up within 2 days.  No one complained so I guess they were okay 

Made with butter, they keep up to a week, so I guess it's more a case of keeping the cake moist rather than preserving it.

Just my 2 cents worth.

[cookie1]

Welcome Nazar.

[nazar]

thanks for the input, it helps.

Judy, have only tried the book that comes with the tmx  - once i work through that, i look forward to checking out the recipes here  thanks for the compliment also

merrilyn, glad they also tasted the same - thanks for the info, it makes sense that it would keep it moister over time..... thanks for telling me - i wont try no butter in cakes and muffins 

thanks heaps, anyone else with idea's ?

[CreamPuff63]

and for the newbies here is a topic on how to cut down on butter in cakes