 Lee I bought a half pint of heavy cream poured it into a sterilized qt jar and screwed the lid on tight and just shook away for about 20 - 30 mins. added a little salt and pinch of sugar and shook some more. You can also add a little yellow food coloring if you like. I shook until the entire contents became solid. I then poured it into a small sieve and ran cold water over it for just a second and patted it with paper towels, put into a small covered bowl and put it in the freezer for 10 mins. Whalaa....Butter. It is very good. Wayne Yes the fresh stuff tastes so different you got to wonder what the "butter" you buy really is. Hilda OOOOOH that sounds so good. I've shook that mason jar and made butter many a day. For some reason when I was growing up Mama always gave me that job. Except we made it from the milk and cream from mama and daddy's cow. And it was sooooo good. But I guess that's why real Butter isn't good for you,it tastes good. LOL Susan That sounds soooo good! On some nice warm homemade bread.......Boy you all sure make it tough for a girl to lose weight here......oh well there is always tomorrow.....next Monday....whatever!!!8^0)) Mary Lynn Lee I used to take cream to Vacation Bible School class when I was teaching the little ones.. I would give them all turns a shaking.. They were amazed at the butter.. I let them have it on snack crackers at snack time.. Oh how they loved it..
When we were raising foster kids we used to buy lots of milk.. We had
some friends that owned a dairy.. We knew it was safe and clean so we
got it unpasteurized.. It was soo cool.. The cream came to the top and I
would take most of the cream off and make lots of butter and still the
milk was soooo good and creamy..
Darlene I never did much in a jar, but I still have my old Daisy churn, wooden paddle for working the liquid out of the butter & a wooden 1 lb mold. Up until a few years ago we had our own cow for milk & butter. When I was a kid my Grandmother had a crock churn that had a a wooden plunger like affair that you worked up & down until you had butter. The top had a hole that the plunger fit through & cream would spatter out, so she wrapped newspaper around the churn & brought it up above the top to keep spatters off of the floor. Sometimes we had sweet cream butter, sometimes sour cream butter. Churning butter was my job. Those were the days! Carol My grandma had some kind of separator that separated the cream from the milk. I used to love to watch her milk the cows, then use the separator, and then make butter. She used the handle of a silver spoon to make designs on top of the butter after it was made. Sammy
Darlene I still have a cream seprator in the barn. You could hand crank it & it has a electric motor. You have never done a nasty job until you have washed a cream seperator! You have to take it all apart & it is full of metal disc to wash. Not a fun job! Fay There is another way to make butter. Put a pint of whipping cream into your mixing bowl, turn on beaters, beat it too long and you have butter. Very embarrassing when you have dinner guests waiting for their dessert. How do you explain that instead of whipped cream on their dessert they will have butter???? Shirley IT'S BEEN SO MANY YEARS SINCE I TASTED HOMEMADE BUTTER! Vel I AGREE HOME MADE BUTTER IS SO GOOD. I COULD EAT SOME RIGHT NOW WITH WARM BREAD. I SURE REMEMBER MAKING IT IN JAR AND IN THE CHURN. ALSO WE HAD THE SEPARATOR AND I HAD TO WASH THAT TOO. WOMENS WORK WAS NEVER DONE IN THE KITCHEN, I DON'T WANT ANY PARTS OF RETURNING TO THE GOOD OLD DAYS ON A FARM. JUST LOOK AT MY SIG. THAT IS ONE REASON TOO. I DON'T LIKE IRONING NOW CAN YOU SEE WOMEN DOING THAT KIND OF IRONING NOW. WE ALSO HAD THE IRONS HOT AND WRAPPED IN FLANNEL AND PLACED IN FOOT OF BED TO GET OUR FEET WARM. Sarah We had a cream separator at home too. It blew up one day while my sister was using it and a piece broke her leg. Had it hit her on the head, it would have killed her. I churned a lot of butter and hated every minute of it. I think I disliked it so much that I didn't even like the butter i made. We never made it in a jar. I might try beating it with a mixer and see if I like the butter now. Darlene LOL! I too had that happen, but didn't have company. June I too would make butter this way from the milk we bought from a farmer when my daughter was little. The milk was only 50 cents a gallon back then!! Barbara N I have never made butter. I was born on a farm but moved into town when I was very young. I could never drink the well water. I thought it tasted awful! Kath Only had one experience with well water, and we were lucky we drilled and hit an artesian well vein. It was the clearest and tastiest water I ever drank.. However others in the area were not so fortunate, their water had sulphur in it and tasted really bad, I now understand that it is supposed to have lots of healing power.. if you can stand the smell and the taste. |
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