Sugar Bend Farm

Making Butter and memories...

Well, after weeks of talking about doing it, we finally took the plunge and made butter. It was awesome. Megan and I started out with a mason jar of heavy whipping cream and began shaking it. Shake, shake, shake...

After a while it started getting thicker and a blob started to appear. There was a seperation of the buttermilk and the butter. We added some salt and after shaking, shaking and shaking, we divided it up into two mason jars so she could do some and I could do some. We had fun in the process. After pouring off the buttermilk and shaking some more, we then washed the butter in a cold water bath to get all of the buttermilk out. We wrapped it in plastic wrap and molded it, put it in the fridge to harden. I took some of the butter and added honey and mixed to make, "honey butter" and it was delicious!!! The whole family enjoyed toast with homemade butter and honey butter as a snack before bed time. I used the butter on hubby's breakfast toast this morning. We were all impressed with the results and will do it again.

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9:25 AM, 2008-Jan-16 .. Posted by gabbie427

What a wonderful project and I bet it was super yummy on that toast!!!! I love honey butter!!!

God's Blessings,
Amy Jo

Making Butter

6:34 PM, 2008-Jan-16 .. Posted by Purewater

My wife has done that project with the children and we all love it also! It is amazing how simple some things are that we never think about. We have a dream of having a milk cow and actually making our own butter from our own cow's milk, but that will still have to wait for a while.

Loved the pictures on this post!

Thanks for the nice comment on my blog!