No no..it's: Betty Botter bought some butter "But" she said "The butter's bitter! If I put it in my batter, It will make the batter bitter, But a bit of BETTER butter Will make my batter better" So she bought a bit of butter Better than the bitter butter And she put it in her batter And tha batter was not bitter So 'twas better Betty Botter Bought a bit of better butter.
Lots of old recipes books I have call for Best butter. I think some foods were adulterated to make them cheaper. Not sure what they adulterated butter with, but best butter would have been the unadulterated. Recipes used to call for sweet milk and sour milk too...they didn't waste anything in those days.
Georgian silver...the best cows in North Devon are usually Devon cows. They, and South Devons are the best ones to use for clotted cream anyway.