Crooked Creek Farm

Making Butter

We were gifted with a gallon of goats milk recently. This is the first time we have had fresh goats milk! Everyone liked it! When it was gone, and the kids went back to drinking store bought cows milk, 3 out of 4 said they liked the goats milk better!  So, sometime in the future, we will be getting milk goats (ours are meat goats, and they only produce enough milk for their babies).

In the pic below, if you look closely, you can see the milk / cream line. Right above the smudge on the left of the jar.

The cream. I got 4 cups of cream off the gallon of milk. Not as thick as cows cream, though.

 I have never made butter before. Or even watched anyone make butter before!   I went by the book. lol

That would be The Encyclopedia of Country Living: An Old Fashioned Recipe Book the BEST book to have!

Churning in the blender. You can see the butter starting to come together.

 Washing and gathering. I added the salt at this point. Having never made butter before, I just guessed at the amount of salt. And was happy that it didn't come out too saltly! lol

I had a lot of buttermilk left. I'm going to use it to make biscuits, since we're not buttermilk drinkers.  Out of the 4 cups of cream, I got approximately 3/4 to 1 cup of butter. I didn't measure it, but that's what it looks like.  Not as high a ratio of cream to butter as cows cream, according to the book.  But I'm happy with it!

The finished butter!

Pretty, and good tasting, too! At first, I thought it had a sourcream taste to it. But after chilling and eating it on bread the next day, it didn't have that taste. It's not a strong butter taste, but it's good. And I would definitely do it again.

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12:55 PM, Thursday, December 27, 2007 .. Posted by haflinger

Sounds like you had fun making butter. I never made it the way you did. I do make butter with a butter churn a gallon one hand crank lol.. Did you use cold water and wash it as you were doing it?
Country living by carla Emery good book I have two of them, I had the pleasure of her coming to our home in Maine. She was traveling the Northeast for book signing.. Her and her husband stayed the night we had great fellowship with them and she spoke at our local grange and had a book signing..I'm sorry to say she has passed on its been about two years now.
She also had a nice web site not sure if Its still there..blessing haflinger

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04:08 PM, Thursday, December 27, 2007 .. Posted by faithfarm

I've never tried to make butter with our goat's milk. I didn't think the cream was thick enough. Now I am excited to try it! Thanks so much for sharing!
Blessings,
Faith Farm

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11:56 PM, Thursday, December 27, 2007 .. Posted by maa

Wow! Four cup of cream from one gallon is a lot. I have never been able to get that much from a gallon.
Do you know what breed of dairy goat that the milk came from?
I like butter made from goats milk.
maa's mom

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01:42 PM, Thursday, January 17, 2008 .. Posted by Anonymous

Goats milk is wonderful to be certain. We have raised milk goats sense 1998 and have had a wonderful time doing it. Not only does it taste better than cows milk but it is very, very healthy for you. It is the closest thing to human milk that there is and if you are lactose intolerant most people can drink goats milk without any adverse reaction. Right now our girls (as we call them) are dry and we don't even bother buying milk we just make do without. I do freeze our excess to help us carry through. Can't wait for kidding season. Congratulations on your butter, beautiful job!
Lea