Comments on Crunchy Chicken: Holy cow! I made my own butter

I am dying to do this but I am having trouble find...

2010-08-19T06:09:13.244-07:00

I am dying to do this but I am having trouble finding non ultra-pasteurized cream where I live in South Carolina, does anyone have any suggestions?

I live on a dairy farm. I let a gallon of milk sep...

2010-04-10T04:21:25.023-07:00

I live on a dairy farm. I let a gallon of milk seperrate(cream rises) I scoup off the cream of 2 gallons of milk and place in a blender pitcher. Turn blender on high. In 5 minutes I have butter. The buttermilk can be used for other recipes(pancakes, biscuits, etc.) Then I rinse under cold water to get the rest of the buttermilk out and add salt to desire taste.

Wow, thank you so much for the blow by blow instru...

2008-02-19T12:38:00.000-08:00

Wow, thank you so much for the blow by blow instructions. I tried this last weekend just to see what would happen, and . . . butter! Real, delicious butter. It seems ridiculous to be amazed by something women used to make on a daily basis, but there it is. Thanks for the inspiration and instruction!

I did this about 10 days ago and had to repeat and...

2008-01-29T10:16:00.000-08:00

I did this about 10 days ago and had to repeat and repeat. It really is the BEST butter...possibly because you took part in it's creation, but it's truly delicious!
http://fortheloveof-food.blogspot.com/2008/01/better-butter.html

Wow, I've been making mozzarella, ricotta, and my ...

2008-01-29T08:34:00.000-08:00

Wow, I've been making mozzarella, ricotta, and my own yogurt for a while now, but I never tried to make butter and had no idea you could make it with a food processor, mixer, or a plain old Mason Jar. Thanks for the tip!

that is pretty cool Crunchy - I want to knowhow lo...

2008-01-29T07:22:00.000-08:00

that is pretty cool Crunchy - I want to knowhow long start to finish it took to make the butter.

I learned how easy it was to make with whipping cr...

2008-01-29T05:13:00.000-08:00

I learned how easy it was to make with whipping cream and a hand blender when my girls and a neighbor's girls were helping me make some cookies one year. They were beating the whipping cream and I wanted it beat until really stiff peaks stood up. They'd stop and ask if they were there yet and I'd say, "a little more". Then, suddenly, they said, "Uh...Uh...I think we made butter!", and they had. Butter wouldn't work for our purposes, so we had to go out and buy more whipping cream.

How awesome!! I started making my own yogurt and b...

2008-01-28T19:37:00.000-08:00

How awesome!! I started making my own yogurt and bread a few months ago and now I'm addicted to finding new foods that I can make easily homemade. I definitely have to try this!

I wonder if I could use my immersion blender to do this, maybe at least at the beginning...

Wow. I think I'm going to have to try this myself!...

2008-01-28T19:20:00.000-08:00

Wow. I think I'm going to have to try this myself! =)
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So how much butter would a cup of cream make? Or a...

2008-01-28T18:29:00.000-08:00

So how much butter would a cup of cream make? Or a pint?

I don't use that much butter, but I'm tempted to do this just to try out the process and be able to say I've done it. I'll try anthing once!

I use my hand held mixer to make butter. I buy a p...

2008-01-28T16:41:00.000-08:00

I use my hand held mixer to make butter. I buy a pint of heavy cream, place it in a glass bowl and begin to beat it just like I'm making whipped cream, but once it turns into whipped cream I just continue to beat it with the mixer. After a bit you hear a sloshing sound and the butter separates from the whey. I then rinse the butter and knead it and drain it in a strainer. I sometimes add 1/4 teaspoon salt and knead it in. Fresh butter will "sweat" a little at first. I just dab it with a paper towel. It really is easy to make butter!

It goes a lot faster if you put a couple of marble...

2008-01-28T15:20:00.000-08:00

It goes a lot faster if you put a couple of marbles in the jar with the cream.

Here's a link to a butter churn on Lehmans, bu...

2008-01-28T15:00:00.000-08:00

Here's a link to a butter churn on Lehmans, but you would have to churn a lot of butter by hand for the price. http://www.lehmans.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?itemID=1002&itemType=PRODUCT&iMainCat=713&iSubCat=806&iProductID=1002

My grandmother made butter in a big gallon pickle ...

2008-01-28T14:50:00.000-08:00

My grandmother made butter in a big gallon pickle jar. She'd half fill it with her raw cream, and then set it on it's side in her lap in the rocking chair and rock until it was done. She called that her "relaxing time" *laughs*.

How exciting! I look forward to seeing pictures an...

2008-01-28T13:44:00.000-08:00

How exciting! I look forward to seeing pictures and trying it on my own.

Whey is the liquid that is left over after milk so...

2008-01-28T13:33:00.000-08:00

Whey is the liquid that is left over after milk solids have coagulated into cheese. "Buttermilk" is the traditional name for the liquid leftover from making butter. However, this is NOT the same as the buttermilk at the grocery store, which is chemically closer to yogurt than it is to real buttermilk.

I made homemade mozzarella cheese this weekend, using the recipe from "Animal Vegetable Miracle" by Barbara Kingsolver. I was afraid of doing it but wanted to for ages, and it was SO EASY I feel like an absolute ninny for waiting so long. Plus, the leftover whey can be made ricotta (although not a lot) with the simple addition of heat.

It was SO cool.

I'm a little confused. Is whey that you drain off ...

2008-01-28T12:27:00.000-08:00

I'm a little confused. Is whey that you drain off the same as buttermilk? Or is buttermilk different?

Crunchy,

Living in the Big Woods, we're aro...

2008-01-28T12:22:00.000-08:00

Crunchy,

Living in the Big Woods, we're around Amish. I'll often buy my better from them for about $1.50 a pound and brown farm eggs for about $1.00 per dozen. It's so awsome!
I know the family. Their farm is basically organic, just not certified. I know what the cow was fed and I know that it's fat and happy on grass all day!
I have been looking at her butter churn for a while, it's ridiculously easy to use and easy to make. I'll take some pics of it for you. If i ever get a cow, which I do know how to milk, I'm having Susan's hubby make me a butter churn!
As to the whey, I've used it in cooking, but I also use it on my garden. Tomatoes need lots and lots of calcium. If you give them whey, you'll have the best tomatoes you've ever eaten, and you can grow heirloom tomatoes that weigh 2# each! Try it.

Very cool! Save the whey too, you can use it for a...

2008-01-28T11:56:00.000-08:00

Very cool! Save the whey too, you can use it for a few things, namely soaking your grains (just put a few T of it in water and soak rice, oats, whatever) it increases the nutrient content and also makes it easier to digest. If you make homemade salsa or kraut you can add the whey to those too to lactoferment them.

Making butter is really cool! And tastes so good....

2008-01-28T08:52:00.000-08:00

Making butter is really cool! And tastes so good.

That's so funny! I made butter this weekend, too....

2008-01-28T08:29:00.000-08:00

That's so funny! I made butter this weekend, too. Almost for the same reason - I had expiring heavy cream in the fridge and needed to use it - but also because I was making some bread and the recipe called for 1/3 cup of butter and we didn't have that much.

I used the whey in my bread ;).

We love making butter, but I haven't found alocal,...

2008-01-28T08:20:00.000-08:00

We love making butter, but I haven't found alocal, reliable source for cream yet.

I use the Kitchen-aid mixer, too. I don't have the time or endurance to shake a jar when I have bread that needs kneaded! (Another thing I tried and never got away from! I've been making our bread for almost 10 years...)

Awesome! I'm totally going to give this a shot. ...

2008-01-28T08:18:00.000-08:00

Awesome! I'm totally going to give this a shot. The making my own yogurt thing hasn't been going so well so maybe I'll give my self esteem a break on that one and head over to butter temporarily.

Making butter is a tradition in my home. Every ho...

2008-01-28T08:09:00.000-08:00

Making butter is a tradition in my home. Every holiday I put the whipping cream in a mason jar and hand it off to the kids. They toss it, roll it and shake. It is wonderful. They are occupied with a constructive activity while awaiting company.

That's awesome! I had no idea making butter was so...

2008-01-28T07:48:00.000-08:00

That's awesome! I had no idea making butter was so easy. I'm going to have to try it soon.