Butter & pastry cloches

Porcelain clochess, often incorrectly called cloches, are used to serve fine pâtés for brunch, lunch or dinner. Eating such pâtés for breakfast is rather unusual.

The pâté or butter cloches signals the contents with its lid motif. Holst Porzellan has pâté clochess for pheasant pâté (pheasant lid motif), wild boar pâté (pig lid motif), duck liver pâté (duck lid motif) and hare pâté (hare lid motif). For all other flavours of fine pâtés, we have a neutral butter cloche jar with a button lid.

The capacity of a pâté cloche jar is approx. 30-40 g when filled to the brim and is therefore sufficient for one or two people to eat. Pâté lovers, however, claim the contents of a cloche jar all to themselves. As the pâté delicacies are used as a spread, e.g. on bread or on game and poultry, the pâté and butter cloches also belong to the large group of dip bowls.

The preparation of such delicacy pâtés is very time-consuming and often expensive. For this reason, handmade pâtés are becoming increasingly rare in the catering industry and are often being replaced by convenience pâtés, which, incidentally, are in no way inferior in flavour to game pâtés prepared by butchers or hunters.

Holst Porzellan is one of the few manufacturers that still offers these delicatessen clochess. In the last 20 years, the demand for such porcelain clochess has fallen sharply and is now mainly limited to gourmet restaurants and hunters and their wives who cook as a hobby.

To solve the name puzzle, it should be mentioned that the two-part butter cloches (its real name) consists of a cloche (upper part) and a serving dish (lower part).