1.   Butter is the dominant flavor of these crisp, delicate cookies dotted with tiny raisins which look like chocolate chips.

2.   Making butter was nowhere near as reliable.

3.   Nobody seriously doubts that butter is lovely stuff.

4.   Unsalted butter is better for baking.

5.   Whipped butter is expensive and deteriorates rapidly.

6.   Butter is perishable and can go rancid.

7.   Butter is one of the major ingredients in the recipe.

8.   Butter is in the supermarkets of Timisoara for the first time since March last year.

9.   And would tiger butter be ...well, better than anything?

10.   As anyone who has inadvertently overbeaten whipping cream knows, butter is extremely easy to produce.