Why this is a task, not just a recipe
In the BALM programme, a task is something you do with intention — a small, practical act that shifts what you eat towards greater diversity, more fermentation, and deeper nourishment. Making this butter is exactly that. It takes about ten minutes of active time across two days, and what you end up with is not simply butter. It is a fermented, probiotic-rich, anti-inflammatory ingredient that you spread on your bread every single morning. The cumulative effect of that matters.
Elevating your butter is one of the most effortless ways to upgrade your daily bread ritual. Rather than reaching for a block of pasteurised fat with no meaningful nutritional contribution, you are offering your gut something alive — and layering that with omega-3s, polyphenols, and botanical diversity. This is what BALM looks like in the kitchen: not dramatic overhaul, but quiet, deliberate improvement of what you were already going to eat.
You will be able to make a cultured butter and understand its benefits for gut health.
Cultured butter is made through fermentation which means that, unlike pasteurized butter, it contains good bacteria, known to benefit our gut microbiome. The flavour of this cultured butter is amazing and incredibly moreish, but more than that Miguel says "Anchovies are a great source of Omega 3 and the latest scientific consensus suggests that they are in fact a prebiotic...."
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