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Food safety is at the heart of Cottage Butters because every jar should be handled with the same care from the first ingredient to the final handoff. Clear procedures for sanitation, refrigeration, labeling, allergen awareness, and batch traceability help protect product quality, support consistency, and give customers confidence in what they are bringing home.

Cottage Butters is a small-batch refrigerated butter business built around simple ingredients, careful handling, clear labeling, and consistent food-safety practices. Our butter begins with commercially pasteurized Great Value Heavy Whipping Cream, and our current products are House Butter, Honey Cinnamon Butter, and Roasted Garlic Jalapeño Butter. House Butter contains butter made from heavy cream, milk, carrageenan, mono- and diglycerides, and polysorbate 80; Honey Cinnamon Butter contains that same butter base along with Great Value Raw Honey and Great Value Ground Cinnamon; and Roasted Garlic Jalapeño Butter contains the butter base along with Great Value Minced Garlic in Water, whose ingredients are garlic, water, citric acid, and sodium benzoate as a preservative, plus fresh jalapeño pepper. All current Cottage Butters products contain milk and are labeled Contains: Milk. Ingredient brands and formulations can occasionally change, so the ingredient statement on the jar should always be used as the most current product reference. Before production, food-contact equipment, utensils, jars, work surfaces, and the production area are cleaned and sanitized according to our written procedures, and ingredients and packaging are inspected before use. Finished butter is packaged in 4 oz jars, labeled with the product information, KEEP REFRIGERATED, Net Wt. 4 oz (113 g), our Oklahoma registration number OLFFA-001286, a Made On date, and a unique batch code that allows each jar to be connected to its production, ingredient, release, and delivery records. Finished jars are refrigerated promptly after packaging and remain under Cottage Butters controlled refrigeration through direct local delivery, with an internal cold-holding target of 40°F or colder. Cottage Butters delivers refrigerated orders directly to customers rather than leaving butter unattended, and our regular local delivery window is Saturday from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM. Customers should place their butter into refrigeration promptly after receiving it and keep it refrigerated between uses. Because Cottage Butters has not established a fixed validated refrigerated shelf life, our jars use a Made On date rather than an unsupported Use By date, and freshness, appearance, smell, or taste should never be used as proof that a food is microbiologically safe. We do, however, stand behind our products with a 7-Day Freshness Guarantee: if you are not satisfied with the freshness or quality of your butter within seven calendar days of delivery, Cottage Butters will offer a full refund or replacement provided the product was kept refrigerated at 40°F or below. Returned perishable butter is never restocked or resold. Cottage Butters also offers a reusable jar program for our own 4 oz glass jars. Customers receive a $0.25 credit for each accepted Cottage Butters jar toward a future purchase. Returned jars must be free of cracks, chips, damaged rims, embedded residue, or other damage before they can be accepted, and every accepted jar is inspected and fully washed, rinsed, sanitized, and air dried before it is ever used again. A brand-new lid and brand-new ring are used every time, even when the glass jar is reused. Before any finished batch is released for customer delivery, we verify product identity, jar condition, labeling, net weight, refrigeration, batch information, and traceability, and any product with an unresolved safety, temperature, contamination, labeling, packaging, or traceability concern is not released for sale. Cottage Butters is registered with the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry under ODAFF / OLFFA Registration No. OLFFA-001286, and our goal is simple: simple ingredients, small batches, fresh butter made with care.