SHARE YOUR BUTTERBEER!!!
By Professor Fumbleknot.

We've all read about it and we all dream about it, but what is it? Butterbeer, that is. Earlier this month I requested HOLers to share their Butterbeer recipes. Thank you everyone who contributed to this article. Your imaginative recipes were mouthwatering to read, and I can't wait to try each one over the holidays.

DOM MCDERMOTT
...Hufflemonkey

Ingredients - for a pint, of course
1 pint of milk, or just under a pint so you can fit in:
2 tea-spoons of brown / demerara sugar
1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
1 knob of butter (actual culinary term)
A pinch of nutmeg
A pinch of cinnamon
Butterscotch sauce for 'dressing'

Instructions:
1. Heat the milk in a saucepan over medium-high heat.
2. Add the rest of the ingredients, except for the butterscotch.
3. Once the butter has melted, whisk using an egg whisk or spoon if you don't have one, until nice and frothy.
4. Before the mixture comes to the boil, pour into a beaker (or tankard for effect) - don't use a glass as this will be too hot.
4. Swirl in the butterscotch sauce to taste, not too much, but not too little, and let it mix with the rest of the drink.
5. Enjoy before it cools, but be careful not to burn your lips

ELYRANNA REGINHART
...Hufflepuff

Hello dear dear Fumbly!

I'm sending you my recipe for butterbeer that I made out for my real life occupation : 40 young minds of 10 and 11 years old at a school day care. I've even bottled my butterbeer in recycled and sterilized beer bottles. Put on a cork and voila.
You can keep it for about 24 hours but no more or it will turn.....

For about 40 bottles of beers;

5 x 2litres of cream soda
2 x 500ml of 35% cream
2 x Butterscotch caramel syrup ( the one you put on ice-cream)
1/2 of melted butter
A very large cauldron

Put the cream and the caramel in the cauldron and warm at medium heat .When it's well mixed and it seems warm enough to drink like a hot chocolate, pour in the cream soda. It's better if your cream soda is flat, not cold, it will warm better. Stir in the butter. When it's well mixed, turn off your stove.

You can serve the butterbeer warm or you can wait until it's cold. You may lose a bit of the bubbles though. You can also bottle it and put it in the refrigerator. It keeps for about 24 hours this way. This recipe is delicious.

PIPER THORNE
...Gryffindor

Mystical Butterbeer

1. The first thing you need to do is to get a moonstone bowl. These are very rare, and usually quite small. Good luck! If you find one, it will be worth it!
2. You then need to get milk from a cow that's just given birth to her 11th calf. Churn it with a gold churn to make it into butter.
3. Heat the butter in the moonstone bowl by the heat of some natural hot springs, but these must be near a grove of elder trees or the recipe will not work!
4. Add four and a half drops of spring water to the mixture.
5. On the next new moon, take the bowl to the top of a sandstone mountain. Cover it with a piece of snake skin from the rare Caribbean Purple Mountain Viper and dance around it for one hour, singing a Christmas song of your choice.
6. Leave the bowl on the mountain until the full moon, about two weeks later. Add a few drops of dew from a buttercup and some sap from a highland thistle. Cover with a silver plate and bury underground near a dragon's nest.
7. Leave for a whole month. Dig it up, pour into a crystal goblet and drink. You will be surprised at the results!

NB - do not consume at the same time as Fizzing Whizbees. Just trust me. Don't.

FELICIA HARTWICK
... HuffleFlirt

*takes a long sip from her glass*

12 fluid ounces of root beer or cream soda
1 tablespoon of honey
2 teaspoons of butter

Directions-
Step 1 - Place root beer (or cream soda) into a microwave safe glass and heat for about 30 seconds.
Step 2 - Remove root beer (or cream soda) and set aside while you place butter into microwave long enough to melt it.
Step 3 - Add your warm root beer (or cream soda), melted butter and honey to the blender and blend for 5 - 10 seconds. going past 10 seconds may remove the fizziness from your root beer (or cream soda) and it won't taste the same.
Step 4 - Enjoy

*takes another long sip of butterbeer*

DOM TAROT
... Hufflepuff

1 cup (8 oz) club soda or cream soda
½ cup (4 oz) butterscotch syrup (ice cream topping)
½ tablespoon butter

Directions:
Step 1: Measure butterscotch and butter into a 2 cup (16 oz) glass. Microwave on high for 1 to 1½ minutes, or until syrup is bubbly and butter is completely incorporated.
Step 2: Stir and cool for 30 seconds, then slowly mix in club soda. Mixture will fizz quite a bit.
It's really good, at least that's what I thought.

EMMA PACIFICA
... Hufflepuff

Hello Fumbly!

Here's my recipe...It's super yummy. I actually made up this recipe for my summer campers. I run and write the summer camp programs at my science center and we do a Harry Potter camp every year. At the end of each week we do a feast for the kids and their parents as we award prefect and head girl/boy badges, and one of the things we serve is this butter beer. It's been served for two years now to hundreds of people who have all enjoyed it very much. I hope everyone else loves it just as much.

What you'll need:
2 cups of milk
One can of sweetened condensed milk
One stick of butter or margarine
Large pot
Wooden or metal spoon
Ladle (for serving)

Directions:
1) Combine milk, butter, and sweetened condensed milk in a large pot and mix well.
2) Boil gently on the stove for 10-15 minutes. Serve warm. Enjoy!
Serves 25.

CAUTION: Sip butterbeer with care...it is extremely sweet!
*For butterbeer that is not quite as extreme, you can add an extra cup of milk.

PROFESSOR TWYLANTERN
... Hufflepuff

Kids, don't try this at home (unless your parents are gone!) So sweet, it's disgusting, but probably spot on in terms of texture, looks, and taste.

You will need:

A Candy Thermometer
A Double Boiler
1 bag of Werther's toffee candies
1 pint of half and half, or light cream
1/2 to 1 pint of whole milk
2-4 Tbsps of butter (this is at your discretion; however you will need at least 2 Tbsps for it to turn out right)
2-3 liters of Polar Birch Beer, room temperature
A stomach pump

Step 1: Unwrap all the stupid little candies. Leave the wrappers in your roommate's stuff.
Step 2: Fill the bottom half of your double boiler to the appropriate line with water. Turn on the stove to about medium. Place the top have on/into it. Into the top half, place your butter and the candies, and 1/4 pint of milk. Heat and stir frequently as the candies begin to melt. If you notice a lot of sticking, add another Tbsp of butter, or some of the half and half.
Step 3: As the candy melts, gradually stir in your milk and your half and half, mixing thoroughly each time, until you get this lovely, thick cream syrup soup. Do not let it boil to hard candy!! We're trying to reverse the process that made the candy (sort of like the fires of Mordor), not reinvent peanut brittle. You want to keep your temperature between 230-234 degrees F, or where it says "Thread" on your candy thermometer. This would be the absolute highest you would want to go. Stir continuously so that the milk doesn't burn and the candy doesn't burn to the bottom.
Step 4: When this is melted and looking well blended, turn off the heat, remove the whole contraption to a cold burner, and allow to cool for several minutes, until it is on the warm side of tepid; shoot for 99-100 degrees. This is going to have to be timed by observation; stir occasionally until you see that it is cooling past the "oh my gosh I can't drink this lava", but not quite to the "so cool the candy's solidifying and separating from the cream" point. We do NOT want this stuff to separate.

When the toffee concoction is ready, ladle it out into your coffee mug/beaker. WARNING: Be extremely careful and avoid using glass containers - they could be shattered by the heat of the toffee cream! Ceramic mugs or wooden tankards are your best choice. When ladling this out, you are going to want one part toffee cream to three parts birch beer. Toffee cream goes first, THEN the birch beer. DO NOT STIR. The birch beer is sweet, and does fun things to the toffee cream. When presented, the cream fizzes and floats to the top, and looks for all the world like a foam head on a pint of "grownup" beer. For an added "New England" touch, put a tiny sprinkle of allspice on top of the foam. Come Autumn, we put this spice on just about everything, including meat. Yeah, I know, we're gross. So?

For looks and taste, it is the butteriest, most authentic looking "butterbeer" I have ever seen. You will however, have squeaky teeth afterward, and a little goes a long way - three cups at a party even makes me sick, and I am the Queen of the Sweet Tooths. Hence the suggestion for the stomach pump - well, actually, I just like making Brak references. Every time I invent a new recipe, I think of Tortelweenies.

This recipe makes about 8-12 servings depending on the size of your serving mugs and your tolerance for sickeningly sweet things. When in doubt, water it down with a little more of the birch beer. I've stretched it to as many as 14-16 servings.

KIRSTEN CASPER

Butter Beer Recipe

Makes approx 1 ¼ pints (3-4 mugs)
What you will need:

Large saucepan
Large jug
Whisk
Cling-film

1oz (25g) butter
1oz (25g) castor sugar
10z (25g) golden syrup
1pt (600ml) fat-free milk
3 fl oz (75ml) natural yogurt

1. In a saucepan, over a low heat, melt together the butter, sugar and golden syrup, stirring all the time until the sugar has dissolved (about 10 minutes). Add a little milk to the pan, then transfer to a jug.
2. Whisk in a little more milk, approx 2 fl oz (50ml) followed by all the yogurt.
3. Whisk in the remaining milk.
4. Cover with cling-film. Chill before serving.

LISA SAUNDERS

When I was very young, 7 or something, I went to this restaurant where you could fill up your own drinks with sprite, raspberry and many other things. I think this would be a wonderful recipe for butterbeer....

Grab a cup and fill it 1/4 the way up with coke-a-cola. Fill the next 1/4 with raspberry. Another 1/4 with sprite, and the last 1/4 with any other drink you want to make it suit your own tastes. The drinks have to be fizzy to enhance the superb taste of your butterbeer.

Well, I tried it again today and it actually tastes quite yummy.

DAIDA PADACK
... Hufflepuff

Butterbeer recipe (made by me..hehe)

*Butter
*root beer (not allowed to use real beer so this will work )
*Cream or milk

You pour the butterbeer into a mug or a cup. If you want to use one can only it'll do.
You melt the butter and pour it inside the mug, or cup. Use as much butter as you would like, depending on how much you like the taste of butter =).
Pour the cream or milk into the mug too. Stir and heat until wanted temperature. Tastes better when it is really hot.
And serve! Ta-da! Hehe. =) Homemade tasty butterbeer, enjoy!

PEZZIE GRANGER
... Hufflepuff

After researching about Butterbeer the one recipe I fancy is a simple one. It's also my version of Sugarfree Butterbeer, as myself I can't have lots of sugar, Diabetes Type 2. So first I tried the 'sugar way' the recipe calls for:

Cream Soda *A & W Cream Soda*
Butterscotch Ice Cream Topping Syrup

I tried this and it tasted wonderful! So I thought wow, this has a lot of sugar in it. What about a sugar free version? So I got sugar free/Diet Cream Soda and sugar free butterscotch topping the taste is still amazing.

"Sugar Free" Butterbeer (Diet Butterbeer
You would need one can of Diet Cream Soda *A & W Brand*
2-3 tablespoons of Sugar Free Butterscotch Syrup Topping *more or less for your taste*
Mix together with a straw in a tall glass, add some ice, and enjoy!

ALECIA AMETHYSTA
...Ravenclaw

Leci's Homemade Butterbeer!!

1 1/4 cup Apple Cider
1 scoop vanilla ice cream
cinnamon stick

Place one scoop vanilla ice cream in a large glass. Pour 1 ¼ cups of apple cider into a sauce pan and heat over the stove (or microwave for one minute). Carefully pour Apple Cider through a strainer and over ice cream. Stir with a cinnamon stick.
Instant Butterbeer!

PIPER HANELL

This yummy recipe was made by Piper Hanell
for all the people that like to sip hot chocolate by the fire this is BETTER.

Ingredients: soda( your favorite kind), butter, club soda, a mug, microwave, bowl and a spoon

1.Take your bowl and put ( 2 inch slice for 2 people, 3 for 3 and 4 for 4 ect) the measurement of butter that acquires to your amount of people and put it in the microwave until it melts
2. Then take the soda put it in the mug then put it in the microwave for like 30 sec and then pour the butter in.
3. For extra foam put in club soda and then let cool or drink hot.
4. Grab friends and go by the fireplace in your common room and read Harry Potter!