Monday, February 12, 2007

Made from scratch

This weekend I decided to try my hand at butter making. Yep butter, made from the fat of a cow. I made sweet cream, lightly salted butter. It was easy to make and I will do it again! It takes 1 ingredient, heavy whipping cream. I got out my new food processor that I got for Christmas and poured in 1 pint of whipping cream and a pinch of salt and set it to low. After a short time it was whipped up into whipping cream. Shortly after that it started looking like clobbered milk. Soon it was fairly solid looking. I poured off the buttermilk and churned it for a few more minutes . I poured off more of the milk and scrapped it up into a ball and placed it in a wide mouth mason jar and screwed the lid on. I started shaking it churning it more using a steady shaking motion. I did this until there was no more milk coming out of the butter. I tasted it and it sure did taste like butter. Now it is time to clean it. I poured about 1/2 cup of ice cold water into the jar and started shaking again. I repeated this until I had clear water. This step is not necessary but it will allow for longer storage of the butter. I then shook it more without the water in it to dry the butter out, pouring off the water that was shook out of it. I poured it out of some waxed paper and I was ready to eat it! A warm loaf of cheese bread was waiting for me to put a pat of creamy fresh made butter on it! A juicy steak, hot potato, and cheese bread with fresh butter, a meal made for my king!

For inforamation on how you can make your own butter at home go here.

17 comments:

  1. PAT IS SOOOOOOO LUCKY TO HAVE YOU! THAT BUTTER SURE LOOKS DELICIOUS AND I KNOW IT HAD TO TASTE SO GOOOOOOOOD!!!!
    LOVE YA,
    CARLENE

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  2. wow I never knew what went into butter.

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  3. how cool! I love real butter, its much better than margarine anyday.

    this sounded hard, but Im a wuss when it comes to cooking ANYTHING

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  4. I never use anything else but butter.I cannot stand to taste margarine at all.I think this is because my mother worked on a farm as a young girl until her marriage and she made ice cream and butter all day long.So we were brought up on Best Butter.Well done it sure looks good in the pics.I bet it tasted better than it looks too.I love it on fresh baked bread.Lovely post,sorry I havn't been by my computer broke and I had to buy a new one Grrrrrr so I have only just got everything back to normal.Happy to see you are well and busy making such good things.Take care God Bless.
    Astorisand http://journals.aol.co.uk/astoriasand/MYSIMPLERHYMES

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  5. Glad you had fun....and to enjoy the "fruits of your labors" so to speak LOL....Hugs...Ora

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  6. very interesting

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  7. seems easy enough maybe I will try it...
    Donna In /TEXAS

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  8. That sounds just perfect ~ and with cheese bread even better ~ my Dad used to make butter for us children when we were young ~ I can remember how lovely it was ~ Ally

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  9. Next project: Make your own cheese!  ;o)   -  Barbara

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  10. That's pretty awesome!!  I remember when my son was in kindergarten they had the kids make butter by shaking it up in a jar.  And it was GOOD!  
    Pam

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  11. During the many years when I milked cows, I made all our butter.

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  12. Wow! I am impressed. I remember reading about Ma Ingalls making butter, and now I can add you to my list of butter makers. The cheesy bread sounds good, too. Margo

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  13. You are soo smart. I never would ever even try to make butter. It sounded like it was fun and boy to I love butter. The dinner you cooked made me hungry. glad you had fun doing it.

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  14. Oh yeah!!  Butter baked potato + cheesebread + steak = HEAVEN!!!  

    I had to grin at Margo's Ma Ingalls comment.  You totally had a "Little House on the Prairie" day!!

    Russ

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  15. Oh, we used to make our own butter when I was a girl...it tasted so much better! You've gotten me all inspired to make some, now.

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  16. That looks delicious!  Eler Beth makes home made butter sometimes, and it is really sweet and delicious.
    Lori
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  17. Now all you need is a corn cob pipe and some banjos and you're set!  LOL!

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