Jan. 7, 2009
Make your own butter

Posted in Homestead Kitchen

One day last week I remembered that I had bought some heavy cream over the holidays for Moma's Favorite Cookie, which I am GOING to post the recipe for! REALLY! :)  Well, I thought with this much cream, it would be a good time to show the children how to make butter... well the easy way to make butter.
We pulled out the ole food processor.
Poured in all that cream and turned it on...
There were a few different stages that I told them we would see...
First of all we saw it just as a liquid, as it is as cream.
We would start seeing the cream slowly becoming thicker, until we had it at the whipped cream stage.
They all tried it at this point and sneered... sadly they thought it would taste like cool whip.  Pitiful, huh? I told them at the enormous amounts of 'stuff' added to cool whip and this was so much better, and that we could add a little sweetner if we wanted whipped cream, but we want butter!
Keep it moving, keep it moving...
FINALLY!
BUTTER! :) HURRAH!
Please forgive the skunk stripes down my child's hair... our New Years Party got a bit crazy! :) haha
Mmm... this butter is good, Mom!
We even took the buttermilk and put it in a jar to use later and washed the curds with ice water to help get all the milk off so the butter would last longer.
Now a solid. How crazy are we? Doing school when we are supposed to be on holiday? haha... so is the life of a homeschooler.
I hope you have a great day friends.
From My Homestead to Yours,
~Chas~
Chasity L. Burrell
Heritage Acres Farm

Comments

Jan. 8, 2009 - butter

Posted by Janetotto

Looks like fun.. we get raw milk and cream and make butter every week the kids "fought" over making it at first now after a year it is an assigned chore. LOL Nothing is better on our home made bread... do you ever freeze your butter we have started to.

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Jan. 8, 2009 - Great Butter Demonstration!

Posted by PattyMarie

I have 7 quarts of heavy cream in my freezer...our daughter is the kitchen manager for the head chef at her culinary school. When they had to clean out the fridge before the holidays, she brought me the cream--it was going to expire while the school was closed.

Just one question: Can you lightly salt the fresh butter? And if so, how much salt?

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Jan. 11, 2009 - Homemade butter

Posted by Kristin Hoffman

Good girl, Chas. Do you have a plastic (or dull metal) dough blade for your food processor? If so, I have read that it is better to use it than the sharp chopper blade....the latter can cause off flavors, I think. And if you warm your cream to perhaps 65 degrees, it will churn faster without going through the whipped stage.

You can salt butter as you like. Depends on how much you are making. 1 quart of heavy cream should make about 8 oz. of butter. Perhaps 1/4-1/2 t for that amount.

Ripening the butter (by culturing) makes a tastier, healthier product, IMO.

So when are you getting a cow? It is hard to get cream off goat milk. ;-)

Kristin
www.solarfamilyfarm.com
www.knot4fun.com

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