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Making Butter at Home
We made butter when I was in first grade (but engmcmuffin, I don't think your Mom was my teacher). We beat the butter with one of those mechanical eggbeater things. It was around Thanksgiving time, so we were learning about "Indians", and the foods that might have been eaten in the early days of the settlers here. This was in the early 70's (ouch!), and I cringe thinking about how non-pc it all was! But it is one of my clearer memories from that time - I guess I was already on the way to being food obsessed!
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Yes I have mad butter with my grand daughter last year in her 5th grade class last year.I was just amazed .They put cream in a jar and shock it and past it around every one got a turn. It was SO good.
Making Butter at Home
I periodically make my own butter. It's one of the simplest thing you can make and the results arne wonderful. Plus, it makes a really nice gift for friends if you do compound butters and the like. I generally just shake the jar, which I really don't think is all that dime consuming or tiring, but one certainly can make overwhipped cream instead.
Hmm, now all I can think about is buttered corn on the cob.
Making Butter at Home
As a kid we made butter all the time because my dad brought raw milk frm the farm, after boiling it the cream on top was saved every day for a week, and we'd beat it by hand every weekend... it was a treat, everyone in our family loves homemade butter.
Making Butter at Home
@DELICIOUS: I make butter regularly by pouring whatever leftover cream I have into a bowl at least 2.5 times the volume of the liquid cream and using my hand mixer on medium high. As a few people noted, you get butter from (over)whipping cream. You'll get to the point of whipped cream with nice fluffy peaks, whip it a little longer and soon you will see the smooth whipped cream becoming more granulated and a little yellow. Keep whipping until it starts to spatter (now is when you are glad to have used a large bowl). Uncultured buttermilk--which looks like watered down milk--will separate from the butter clumps.
At this point I get out my rubber spatula and squish the butter together to remove some of the excess liquid and pour that into a separate container. (note: excellent for use in biscuits and scones, but less tangy than cultured buttermilk) I bring the mixer back in to eke a little more liquid out and then smoosh the butter into a rough ball and store in a little glass jar in the fridge. I don't add salt at all, but that's a matter of taste.
@DaveFaris - Fresh made butter is free from chemicals and is much much sweeter than regular store-bought butter. It's basically extracting and refining the most delicious flavor and fat parts out of cream. If you have some warm, oven-fresh sourdough, there is not much better than a slab of sweet cream butter melting into it.
Making Butter at Home
I made butter sometime in my early teens in the blender. I think ice cubes were involved, cheesecloth to drain it. I ended up with a nice chunk of sweet butter, I can still remember how good it was. I need to do this again, soon!
Making Butter at Home
After reading this yesterday I realized I had cream in the fridge that needed to get used soon so I made butter with my immersion blender. I added a bit of salt to make it taste like really butter. It tasted so fresh and was great on corn on the cob because it melted so easily. I don't know if it was the lack of terrible preservatives or texture but I still prefer store bought to homemade.
Making Butter at Home
I made it once as a child - same method as others (shaking jar till I thought my arms were going to fall off). I remember it being the best tasting butter I'd ever had. Hmmm...I just made a loaf of bread and have a container of heavy cream in my fridge that I don't know what to do with...
Making Butter at Home
I made butter the first time in kindergarten, all of us in the class taking turns shaking a glass jar while we sat in a circle. The first adult time making butter was when I was inspired by a NYTimes article in 2007. Thankfully the article reminded me to cover my mixer with plastic wrap because it was a mess! Butter was fab, but I didn't use the buttermilk. Wasn't sure if I could use it the same way you use cultured buttermilk from the grocery store. Does anyone know if it's a direct substitute in recipes?
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@fuuchan
If you can find unpasteurized cream you can make cultured butter in the same way as normal butter. Otherwise I was reading you can add some cultured yogurt to cream, let it sit for a day to inoculate the cream then go to town with the churning.
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Anyone have any tips on making cultured butter? I do love the taste of European style butter more. I've already begun looking up places to get fresh quality cream to try this endeavor, but something about intentionally letting dairy sour in a standard fridge makes me antsy that I'll do it wrong and spoil that lovely cream.
Making Butter at Home
I make butter at home by forgetting to turn off the mixer while making whipped cream.
Making Butter at Home
I just learned today from my father that his mom made butter from scratch when they lived in Cuba... she boiled fresh milk right off the cow and took the "nata" on top to make the butter, whisking it with a fork. I wish I had known that about her when she was still alive... It was a nice Mother's Day moment learning new things about my grandma.
Making Butter at Home
When I go to the high lighted "making your own butter" nothing comes up. So for all of you who have done this. How much cream, and do you add salt? How long in a stand mixer, do you use a whisk or paddle?
Thanks in advance!
Making Butter at Home
Like many I made butter in elementary school. Actually my entire class made potato bread from scratch in either 1st or 2nd grade.
The class of 15~20 kids was split into 4-5 smaller groups. One boiled and mashed potatoes, one made dough, one beat cream into butter (*by hand* with a whisk), and I think the rest cut up some fruit and made salad.
Probably helped that our classroom had a fully functional kitchen...
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I made butter in 2nd and 4th grade as well! We passed around cream in baby food jars like mhurst's class did and shook til our little arms practically fell off. I remember the butter was so sweet and creamy, so unlike the stuff we bought at the supermarket.
I swear, I remember eating the butter on zucchini bread in the 4th grade as well! None of my classmates really liked it so more for me!
The best project yet was the lollipop making. =D
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I also made butter in grade school, 3rd grade I think. We used little baby food jars and shook them FOREVER! I remember that we ate our butter on zuchinni bread the teacher brought in. How cool is that?
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We made butter when I was in first grade (but engmcmuffin, I don't think your Mom was my teacher). We beat the butter with one of those mechanical eggbeater things. It was around Thanksgiving time, so we were learning about "Indians", and the foods that might have been eaten in the early days of the settlers here. This was in the early 70's (ouch!), and I cringe thinking about how non-pc it all was! But it is one of my clearer memories from that time - I guess I was already on the way to being food obsessed!