I've begun making my own butter and it couldn't be easier. You literally dump heavy cream into your Kitchen Aid stand mixer, cover the bowl with a cloth napkin, turn it on and gradually increase the speed over 10 minutes or so and when you hear it going bump, bump, bump you switch it off and voila, BUTTER. You scoop up all the butter bits, squish them together and run the ball of butter under fresh, cold water for about 30 seconds, pack it into a butter bell and it lasts for a couple weeks.
No commercial butter can even compete in taste in texture. Aside from being simple as can be it is less expensive than butter in a tub or in stick form. Enjoy!
-Jess
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Do you salt yours? I like to salt mine a bit. Do you remember making butter with Granny Mae in the gallon, glass jar and all the shaking we had to do? I thoroughly enjoyed that. :o)
I do remember it and MUCH prefer the Kitchen Aid mixer! It was a lot of shaking...
No, I don't salt mine.
I do this and use the buttermilk to make pancakes and then use the butter on the pancakes. YUM!
Wha what? Okay, now, I really need to come stay with you for a week and see what you do. :) You have time to make butter. What am I doing wrong? BTW-I'm not joking!
I just bought a butter crock on Amazon and paid $3.99 for it to arrive tomorrow. I am most certainly making butter this weekend!!!
Sounds wonderful. I love butter.
I'll have to try that once the 2 younger kids aren't allergic to dairy anymore.
BTW, gotta make homemade bread to go w/that homemade butter! We make all our own bread to avoid the nasty preservatives and corn syrup in store bread. Although if I have to buy the Archer Farms Balanced brand isn't bad. I've got a super easy recipe for bread w/the Kitchen Aid if you need it.
Carrie, I make most of our bread too. Sometimes in the bread maker, sometimes in the K.A. Depends on what time I've got and how much I need. I have a great No Knead Bread recipe I got out of Mother Earth News awhile ago that we all love around here.
I made the butter! So cool...and so yummy. I added salt to mine
Can you imagine what women years ago would have thought if they had this wonderful technology? Wow. I remember our "home ec" teacher having us make butter the "old fashioned way" with a churn. It was a great learning experience... Anyway, what a great idea. You know exactly what's in it. Thanks!
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