The Butter Bubble Bursts Just in Time for the Holiday Baking Season

Butter, cheese prices tumble.  (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10/15/2014)

I like the juxtaposition of "butter" and "gripped the market".

The cash price for a pound of butter on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange has fallen 54 cents in three days, reversing a trend of skyrocketing prices for dairy products that had gripped the market during late summer.

What better way to celebrate the price drop -- not yet reflected in the grocery store, unfortunately -- than with this butter cookie recipe that calls for a pound of butter!!

From

A COLLECTION OF SELECTED RECIPES

Compiled

by the 

Forest Park Group

of

Bethesda Lutheran Church

Springfield, Massachusetts

1949

Related post:
Butter producers boost exports at our expense.  (7/8/2014)