By the age of seven, John was assisting at the store with such tasks as mixing butter from the different dairies with which his father dealt to produce a standardized blend.

The sauce, is made by heating and mixing butter, tomato puree, Khoa and various spices, often including cumin, cloves, cinnamon, coriander, pepper, fenugreek and fresh cream.

For the pie dough, mix the sugar and butter until it is light and fluffy.

They are constantly mixing and measuring butter, eggs, sugar, flour, nuts, chocolate, fruit and spices that ultimately become delicious cake, cookies, pies and pastries.

Chefs who were once judged by technique, by their ability to deftly mix flour and butter and cream into sauces that would glorify and embellish, are now judged by their ability to enhance, not disguise.

In a bowl, mix together cookie crumbs and remaining butter.

Meanwhile, in a large bowl, mix the flour and butter together with your hands until smooth.

For the buttercream, mix the icing sugar, glucose, condensed milk, flavouring and butter with an electric mixer in a bowl until smooth and light, then beat in the baking margarine until smooth.

To serve, mix the spinach, butter and nutmeg together.

Belinda asked, sitting down at the kitchen table across from Sara and mixing butter and brown sugar together with a fork until it was brown goo, which she then spread on her toast.