Home Butter - Homemade
"I've been making this at the holidays with young children for years. Most children don't know that butter comes from cream and not from a "fridge at the grocery store". This Thanksgiving my 3 1/2 yr old and my 18 month old had fun shaking (and cheering me on while I shook the jar) and we made a whole quart worth of butter all together for our extended family dinner."
- Ready In:
- 5mins
- Ingredients:
- 3
- Yields:
-
1/4 cup
ingredients
- 1⁄2 cup cream
- 1 pinch salt (optional)
- 1 very clean glass jar
directions
- Place a clean marble in the jar along with a pinch of salt if you are using it. The marble is optional but makes the shaking go faster, I couldn't list it in the ingredients list.
- Fill the jar no more than 2/3 full with cream.
- Screw the lid on tightly and shake.
- Shake.
- Shake some more.
- After a few minutes of hard shaking the cream will start to ball up and separate into butter and buttermilk. The first sign is the glass going from milky to clear.
- Pour off the buttermilk and shake again. Do this until no more buttermilk separates out.
- You now have real homemade butter that you can slather onto bread and enjoy.
- Yield depends on the ammount of cream you use.
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Reviews
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Fantastic! I was almost ready to quit shaking when, viola...butter! It took about 20 minutes. Honestly, I don't think I will buy stick butter again unless I need it for baking. Thanks for posting. -
it was very easy to do you see it done diffrently on tv
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Lara H
United States
I live in Arizona with my wonderful husband and our 2 beautiful daughters, ages 4 yrs old and 2 yrs old. We also have a dog and a bunch of fish.
I am a trained Montessori teacher and Parent Education Consultant. I worked full time as a teacher until just before our younger daughter was born, at the moment I am a substitue teacher and support person at an excellent Montessori School. I would love to someday be able to be home with our girls full time, but for now they both love being where they are so I try not to feel too badly about it all.
I have a huge collection of cookbooks, some of which are still in storage at my mum's. (Moving cookbooks is such a pain!) I also have 5 or 6 file boxes full of recipes, and I'm always adding to it.
