Garlic Butter for Garlic Bread, Escargot or Shrimp

Description: The garlic butter blend can be used for scampi or escargot by simply broiling shrimp or the snails in it! Copied from a community cookbook.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup unsalted butter
• 4 -5 large garlic cloves
• 1/2 teaspoon oregano
• salt, to taste
• 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/4-1/2 teaspoon basil (optional)
• 1 loaf French bread or 1 loaf Italian bread
• olive oil, to coat bread

Steps:

1. Melt butter in saucepan over low heat and remove from heat.
2. Crush garlic in press and add it to melted butter. Cook over medium heat, watching carefully not to let garlic burn, about 3-5 minutes, in a slow simmer. Stir in dried spices. Remove from heat.
3. Add salt to taste.
4. *If using as a sauce, use to coat and cook in broiler.
5. If making bread, use immediately on bread cut on the diagonal into slices or on a bread cut in half lengthwise. Add some olive oil and wrap in foil. Bake at 350 degrees F. about 20 minutes.