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.