Recipe Home-made butter

[Morning Glory]

If you have never tried this then please do. It couldn't be easier with just 2 ingredients. Your friends and family will be impressed and probably won't know how simple it is to make! 300ml cream makes approximately 140g butter.

Ingredients
300ml double cream (heavy cream)
Salt to taste (crystals of salt are good)

Method

1. Place the cream in a large bowl
2. Using a stand mixer or an electric hand mixer with a whisk attachment, whisk and keep whisking.
3. Eventually the cream will start turning into clumps and then separate into butter curds and buttermilk (see below)
4. Drain off the buttermilk and save to use in baking.
5. Using your hands, squish the curds together, extracting excess liquid, until it forms a solid lump.
6. Add salt to taste.

Its also possible to make butter by putting the cream in a large sealed glass jar and shaking vigorously although you need plenty of elbow grease for that!

 

[medtran49]

You can also buy lovely little molds and make it fancy, or make curls.

 

[The Late Night Gourmet]

Really impressive! As simple as the process is, I can see how this can be adapted to use other sources (such as, maybe, fat free half and half to make a light butter, though I'm sure it would take longer to come together). It makes me wonder now how vegan butter can be done...

 

[Morning Glory]

Really impressive! As simple as the process is, I can see how this can be adapted to use other sources (such as, maybe, fat free half and half to make a light butter, though I'm sure it would take longer to come together). It makes me wonder now how vegan butter can be done...

I don't think half and half would work. Most light butter type spreads have added water I think. Some use buttermilk and vegetable fat.

 

[Barbarian57]

My daughter's kindergarten class (1984) made a "Thanksgiving Feast" which included butter made by each child, by shaking heavy cream in a baby food jar.