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The French  Butter Keeper (handmade  Bell style Butter crock Alternative) -originally called a French butter Dish is used to keep butter fresh without refrigeration.  This centuries-old butter crock design has thousands of dedicated users.  If you love butter but find it hard to keep at a spreadable temperature, this Butter Dish is what you need.
Our high quality, wheel thrown, high fired stoneware and porcelain French Butter Dishes are lead free and dishwasher safe.  Each dish holds a little less than 1/2 lb of butter.  They are handmade at James Sloss Pottery in Dayton, Oregon, USA.
Pricing: Each dish, $22.95 plus Shipping
All U.S.A  orders are shipped via U.S.P.S. Priority Mail (2 to 4 day delivery).  Canada via air post
Hand-made in the U.S.A. Click here to order 


Red variations and one of a kind glaze colors
(porcelain and stoneware).


Porcelain

High fired Stoneware French Butter Dish - Stoneware secelection

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How it's used
  

To use a French Butter Dish, "pack"  1/4 to 1/2 pound of butter into its cone-shaped lid, then put water into the base so that it is about 1/3 full (use salted water for unsalted or low-salt butter). When the lid is on, a seal is created that keeps oxygen away from the butter or margarine (oxygen is what turns butter rancid).  Your Butter will stay soft and fresh!   When you want to serve the butter, the top part rests securely on the table.
For more information see our frequently asked questions page.

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Each dish, $22.95
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We will ship within 36 hours, unless otherwise noted next to your glaze choice on our order pages.
 (except weekends, holidays and guest artist butter dishes)
All orders shipped  via U.S.P.S. Priority Mail (2 to 4 day delivery)

About us
James Sloss Pottery has been in business for the last 28 years and sells a full line of functional pottery at the Portland Saturday Market, an open-air handmade-crafts market in Portland, Oregon, USA. 
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Online review

See a review of our French Butter Dish at BetterBaking.com, the online magazine for bakers who cook.

Fresh roll and bun recipes  
Here, for FrenchButterDish.Com Visitors, courtesy of Marcy Goldman, our baking friend, (and butter dish fan), of BetterBaking.com, is a batch of fresh roll and bun recipes to go with the butter, in your French Butter Dish. Click Here

Butter spread and  Flavored Butters recipes
Also BetterBaking.com's  homemade butter spread,  Flavored Butters recipes, 

This has nothing to do with butter or pottery but here is the site of a good friend with a great book!
/www.talesoftamoor.com/

Learn more about butter on the web 
http://webexhibits.org/butter/index.html

Sister sites
www.garlickeerer,com
www.frenchbutterdish.com
James Sloss - French Butter Dish.Com - 1997-2008

Last update 08/04/2008

All our French Butter Dishes are hand-made: Slight  variations in color, design and size are normal.
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Available colors

Available colors

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Porcelain  colors-

  1. White with forest green flower design

  2. White with purple flower design

  3. White with multi-color flower design

  4. White with blue flower design

  5. White with green flower design

  6. New color- to be developed

  7. Slate blue

  8. Turquoise

  9. Cobalt Blue

  10. Black 

Reduction Fired Stoneware Colors-

  1. Stony Gray with cobalt blue flower design 

  2. Teal/brown

  3. Gray/white glaze with cobalt blue flower design

  4. Black - brown

  5. Red-brown braking to olive green

  6.  Red/purple/blue*

Learn more about Reduction fired stoneware

  

Customer Responses 
Read reviews of our French Butter Dish from some of our customers  Click here



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Please email me with any questions or comments you may have.

Each piece is handmade on a potter's wheel, then individually glazed.  This method creates a unique "one of a kind" quality that is impossible to recreate in any other way.
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