10,000 butter recipes

Oyster pudding layered with buttered saltine cracker crumbs, cream, and Worcestershire sauce, baked until crusty on top. A traditional 5-ingredient New England side dish.

Whole trout or salmon baked on a bed of sliced vegetables with bacon draped on top. Just four ingredients and 30 minutes for a no-fuss fish dinner with built-in sides.

Beer-braised venison chops grilled with butter, onion, and garlic salt until charred and smoky. A quick 25-minute wild game recipe that's rustic, bold, and built for the backyard grill.

Elaborate Swiss hazelnut torte with meringue layers, sponge cake, and buttercream. Traditional Solothurn specialty dessert featuring roasted ground hazelnuts throughout.

Flourless peanut butter cookies made with just three ingredients: peanut butter, an egg and vanilla. Naturally gluten-free, soft and rich, baked in about 15 minutes. No flour, no fuss.

Broiled filet mignon brushed with butter and oil, cooked fast under high heat for a seared crust and a rosy, tender middle. A simple steakhouse classic you can nail at home in 10 minutes.

Traditional Swiss Basle flour soup (Basler Mehlsuppe) made with just butter, flour, and stock. The flour is toasted to a deep chestnut brown for a rich, nutty flavor topped with grated cheese and nutmeg.

Texas-style chocolate sheet cake with buttermilk, cocoa, and a hot fudge icing poured over the warm cake. A 30-minute one-bowl chocolate sheet cake that feeds a crowd at potlucks and church suppers.

An elegant sophisticated Masterchef dinner. Duck with wine sauce, bone marrow and sautéed spinach.

Czech kolaches made with soft yeast dough and a homemade apricot filling. These pillowy rolls get an indentation pressed in the center to hold sweet fruit puree.

This recipe includes a very simple sauce that enhances sauteed, broiled or baked fish. It can be made in camp if you brought parsley and usually impresses any old "fried fish angler."

Forest fettucine with morels and breast of pheasant: handmade morel-powder pasta tossed in a morel cream sauce, topped with seared pheasant breast and buttered fiddlehead ferns. Spring foraging season on a plate, fine-dining style.

Roast chicken with 40 cloves of garlic in a French-style white wine pan sauce. Garlic mellows to a sweet, spreadable paste. Pureed back into the sauce for unbelievable depth.

Amy Scherber's bakery-quality pecan sticky buns. Soft yeasted dough with autolyse rest, caramel-pecan bottom, cinnamon swirl. The classic NYC bread shop sticky bun at home.

Award-winning shortbread with just butter, sugar, flour, and salt pressed into thick cutouts: crisp edges, melt-in-your-mouth crumb, adorable sheep shapes with chocolate eyes optional.

New England stuffed quahogs baked in the shell with chopped clam meat, mushrooms, onions, and buttery breadcrumb topping. A Rhode Island clam shack classic.