For the sponge, using a rubber spatula, combine the 3 cups flour, yeast, milk, sugar, and soft butter in a mixer bowl or another large bowl.

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But, on one recent evening, the culotte steak of wagyu, a famously butter-soft beef, arrived chewy.

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Indeed, it would be impossible not to enjoy the butter-soft leather, wood veneers and inch-thick carpeting inside.

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In his first, he told weary Britons that even New York was a war casualty, driven to burning filthy soft coal and hoarding butter.

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Cream the butter until soft and add the eggs, blending well.

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On the morning Joey Buckley got his wheelchair back, got to leave his bed and move about the hospital grounds alone, I had been up at dawn, before the Georgia sun turned the soft air yellow as butter.

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Working with a stand mixer, preferably fitted with a paddle attachment, or with a hand mixer in a large bowl, beat the butter on medium speed until soft and creamy.

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The peasant-style bread with its crunchy exterior and soft interior is often served with creamy, sweet pinon butter made from locally-abundant pine nuts.

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Continuing the theme of found food, a soft-shell crab is presented as an edible beach treasure, surrounded by amaranth grains for sand and brown-butter sauce for seawater.

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