Egg and Bacon Pie Total time: 1 hour, 20 minutes Pastry for a 1-crust pie 1/2 pound slab bacon, diced 8 eggs, beaten 2 cups light cream 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste 1 tablespoon unsalted butter.

The competition between the major producers was given further impetus with the beginning of commercial television advertising in 1955 and, throughout the 1950s and 1960s, competing companies vied with each other to produce the margarine that tasted most like butter.

Creamy Gruyere Potatoes 4 medium baking potatoes, peeled and cut across into 1/8-inch slices 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt Freshly ground pepper to taste 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, cut into small pieces 1 1/2 cups half-and-half 1 cup grated Gruyere cheese.

And it was the first time that we'd ever tasted bacon, toast, butter and jam too.

Just as there are people who have never had a glass of fresh-squeezed orange juice, there are millions of Americans who may have never tasted real butter.

The long flat cookies are rough and aggressively textural and at the same time polished: you taste butter and almond, and now and then you'll crunch down on an aniseed and get an explosion of fresh licorice flavor.

But now that he had tasted enough food, tasty food, lovely desserts and butter for the vegetables and even the succulent meats-he wasn't happy to give that up.

Mashed Potatoes With Scallions 5 Idaho or Washington potatoes, about 1 1/2 pounds Salt to taste 2 tablespoons unsalted butter 1 1/3 cups milk 1/3 cup finely chopped scallions Freshly ground white pepper to taste 1/8 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg.

Brioche With Caviar And Scrambled Eggs Preparation time: 5 minutes Cooking time: 10 minutes 6 brioches 8 eggs Coarse salt and freshly ground pepper to taste 4 tablespoons unsalted butter 4 ounces caviar.