"imported European butter" Where do I find it??? I need to find better quality ingredients and I want to start with the butter.

health food stores often carry great butter that is salt-free and dye-free, allowing you to make whiter pure buttercreams

Due to the short shelf life of unsalted butter... you may be better to look for european-style butter rather than imported...

Your freshest butter will be if you can find a local source (and yes, health food stores have often done exactly tht!)

If you can find whipping cream fresh, but not butter, you can always make your own!

If you are near some Amish areas they have freshly made butter there. You can make your own too - put that heavy cream in a jar with a screw top and shake away - you'll have butter with no additives in no time.

European butter has a minimum required content of 82% butterfat with some going as high as 86% and American butter has a requirement of 80% butterfat. There are now American producers manufacturing European style butter with butterfat contents of 82% to 86%. A search on-line may give you the location of one whose product is sold close to you.
Hugs Squirrelly

Plugra is what you're probably looking for.

if u put whip cream in a mixer with the whip attachment and just forget about itfor a while, you'll have butter

I get some imported butter from my meat place in the section where they have the cheeses and eggs...its from the azores (islands of of portugal). i use it mostly for toast and things, never tried it for baking. it salted and very tasty.

Thanks, for your responses and great advice. Are there any name brands that you prefer - that I can find in the local grocer?