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opnspaces
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Dec 01, 2013

Why the butter?

I'm fairly new to trying to expand into cooking something besides what I can grill, boil, microwave, or what is a pre-packaged food item. With that being said my experience with just adding something to make a dish taste better is still a bit beyond me.

I've notices on a few different recipes here (peach cobbler, Mississippi roast, and Super_Daves cinnamon roll peach dish, ) that a bunch of butter (2 tbsp up to a complete stick) is added to the bottom of the pan or right on top of the roast.

Why is that? Is it a necessary part of the dish, or is the butter just added as an additional flavor? I know the first time I tried the cinnamon roll dish although with pears, I forgot the butter and brown sugar and the kids loved it. So the butter was really not a requirement. But would it be just awesomely better with the butter?

Thanks for helping me expand my camp culinary offerings. :)