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Caramelized onion topping with rosemary and toasted pine nuts, slow-cooked in butter and olive oil. A savory make-ahead spread for crostini, pizza, roast meats, or tossed with pasta.

Foamy orange sauce is a holiday-favorite hard sauce traditionally served over Christmas pudding, gingerbread, or bread pudding. Whipped butter, powdered sugar, and orange juice make a citrusy, cloud-like topping.

Kay's shortbread cookies made with butter, powdered sugar, flour, and a touch of cornstarch for an ultra-tender crumble. Makes five to six dozen bite-sized cookies with optional cherry centers.

Carrot apricot casserole baked with dried apricots, brown sugar, butter, and slivered almonds. A sweet-glazed holiday side dish where tender carrots meet plump fruit and a buttery caramel-topped crunch.

Pull-apart cinnamon monkey bread made with refrigerated biscuits rolled in cinnamon sugar and baked in a bundt pan. Warm butter sauce soaks into every crevice for sticky-sweet breakfast bliss.

Creamy leek soup blends sauteed leeks and onion with vegetable stock, then enriches with a butter-flour-milk-cream bechamel. Smooth, silky pureed soup for a cool-weather starter or light lunch.

Kaesmus or Rallenmus (German cheese mush): a rustic Swabian dish of tiny flour-and-egg crumbs simmered in milk with cheese and topped with browned onions in clarified butter. Ready in 30 minutes.

Buttery Italian-style shortbread cookies made with powdered sugar, vanilla, and three-quarters of a pound of real butter. Chill the dough, roll it out, cut your favorite shapes, and bake until golden.

Classic Swedish spritz cookies made with a cookie press from a rich butter dough. Decorate with candied fruits or colored sugar for a festive holiday cookie tin that yields 3-4 dozen.

Oysters au champagne is a classic French appetizer: fresh oysters poached in champagne and oyster liquor with garlic butter, plated over a bed of wilted spinach, and cloaked in a silky roux sauce.

Fried rabbit simmered first in salted water with peppercorns and bay leaves until tender, then dredged in flour and pan-fried in butter until golden. A two-step method for crispy, juicy rabbit.

A vibrant Persian beet and yogurt dip with golden butter-fried onions and crushed garlic. Earthy, tangy, and stunning in color, Borani-ye Choghandar is a beautiful addition to any mezze spread.

Oysters a la Grand Isle sauteed in butter with onions, then stirred into cream of mushroom soup off the heat and served on crackers. A quick Gulf Coast oyster appetizer with just five ingredients.

Cheese potato puff is a baked mashed potato casserole with cheddar cheese, butter, and beaten eggs that puffs up golden and souffled in the oven. A make-ahead side dish that feeds a crowd.

Veal scaloppine Modena-style: thin cutlets dredged in flour, pan-seared in butter and olive oil, then finished in a balsamic vinegar and chicken broth pan sauce. The Emilia-Romagna classic ready in 30 minutes.

A flourless chocolate torte for Passover made with cocoa, eggs, toasted almonds, and butter. Baked thin in a jelly-roll pan and cut into layers, this elegant Pesach dessert rises on whipped egg whites alone.