Spreading hard butter on soft bread has always been a problem. When I was a child growing up in Tasmania my mother battled with this while trying to make our school lunches in winter. Her solution was to put the butter in a bowl then melt it
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She was an eccentric genius, credited with some thirty inventions. Many had a domestic application; including stitch-less buttons (an early press stud), boneless corsets, and a folding clothes line that could accommodate 280 ft of washing in an area of just 12ft by 6ft. Mrs Farrell claimed
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