How to make Butter....
 

Get some cream from the grocery store, usually called whipping cream....

Let it sit out for about 10-12 hours, yes it will sour. That is what adds to the taste, then put it in a jar, or a glass with a make-self lid on top. Shake it towards the end of the glass about a shake per second, nothing vigorous, for 3 minutes.

During this time, a solid will begin to take form, it's a chemical reaction in the cream.

After 3 minutes or 4, take off the lid, you will see a solid that's the butter, and now you need to "wash it". Run cold water into the jar/glass and rinse it out, the left over is buttermilk. Put the solid in a container and stir it up, more buttermilk will appear, wash it again, and rinse it..

Final step, add some salt for flavor and put in fridge. It will be solid when removing from fridge, so before use leave out for a bit to soften.

I watched a youtube vid to learn this, and it's true, it works. Next time look at how many ingredients are in butter from the store... crazy.

I guess the more yellow it is, means the cow it came from was grass fed...

Good stuff, thought I'd share it, sure many here already know it though.

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Just a little adder......when i grew up my Gparents made their own butter on the farm I got to shake the jar ...and later turn the curn...

If you have Farm milk (different breeds of cows have more/less cream in their milk).....let it set a bit and it will seperate......the top part will be the Cream.....the bottom part will be regular whole milk

you can use this cream as described in the previous post to make butter.

it also seems they used a press to make butter bars.....but i missed this process as by then i was tired of makeing butter and had ran off outside before they could give me another boring job :)

Gparents pretty much lived off the land.....the only thing i know they bought as stapes were.....bulk -salt..flower..kerosene..gas

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Awesome... the vid I watched was posted by a farmer, and I was just amazed how easy it really is.

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Can you post the url? There are a few there.

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I made butter once. Unfortunately, I was supposed to be making topping for desert. I wasn't the most popular grandson at that event.

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We make it all the time here.

We don't let ours sit out for 12 hours though. It goes straight into the Kitchenaid mixer. About 7 minutes later you have the butter and buttermilk. Strain off the buttermilk before you wash it though.

You can then add garlic (garlic butter) or, my favorite, honey (honey butter) or any other seasonings you can think of.

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Good tips there. I've been just shaking it, real easy and fast, 3 minutes of shaking and it's good to go. You are right just dump off the buttermilk then wash it.

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I don't have the vid, I found it just screwing around on youtube one day and didn't book mark it.

I usually use olive oil to cook but when I need butter now, I do this everytime, made it about a dozen times so far.




Edit: The post below LMAO! I'm not about to start churning butter LOL!!!!!

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Or....


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does it have to be cow's milk ?

i gather it might be possible with goat's milk.

but how about milk from other sources ? like human breast milk. or llama milk.

are the components of milk that separate out, natural to all milks produced by mammals, or is it specific to cows and a few other animals ? :confused_ma:

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I grew up in the suburbs (city boy)
But when I was in 5th grade we made butter in a jar from whipping cream like the OP

I will never forget
Best butter Ive ever had.
We ate it on saltine crackers :ok:

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You can make butter out of goat's milk and you can do it without a separator. It's kind of tedious but very possible and I think it's as good as cow milk butter. The milk fat content in goats is less than cows so it would take a couple of does giving ummm maybe a gallon each a day to give you any kind of a meaningful amount of butter.
Human breast milk....I doubt it. It would take lots of it and the milk fat content would be lower I would think. Llamas are unknown territory to me.

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We did this in kindergarten, but we used whole milk, and did not let it get sour. I remember it being very good. I thought about making my own butter with a paddle jar, but I only see them at antique stores, and they are usually like 3-4 hundred bucks.

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OK, so that's the secret. :elefant: learn something new every day

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Yuppers. Short for buttermilk fat content.

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The problem is you are likely starting off with processed cream. Isn't it pasteurized? If it is, then it is already ruined and very unhealthy. I understand the problem with finding raw dairy though.

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Yep starting with raw milk that you let the cream separate from would doubtless be best, but as you said, it can be hard to source. In some states you cannot buy it. In other states there are various restrictions. In Texas, a dairy must be certified for retail raw milk, and must sell from the farm. It is impossible to get raw milk in a grocery store in Texas.

Pasteurized cream, even ultra-pasteurized cream, will still make tasty butter. It may not be ideal, but it still tastes wonderful. I know because I just made some a couple of hours ago in my stand mixer. I got about a pound of butter out of a quart of ultra-pasteurized organic milk, along with two cups of delicious but very mild tasting buttermilk (mild and not very tangy I guess because it is not cultured). The butter tastes extraordinarily good, and nearly half of it is now safely packed into my French butter bell, the rest is in the fridge.

I dislike ultra-pasteurized milk and cream because it often has a burnt or off flavor. It's also quite dead. Conventionally low-heat pasteurized milk and cream tastes better. It's hard to find organic cream that isn't ultra-pasteurized though. I'm still looking at the stores in my area to try to find some.


I can understand why you might say that ultra-pasteurized cream is ruined. I don't understand it to be unhealthy though. Why do you believe it is unhealthy?

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I thought this video was pretty interesting.

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I sometimes buy my butter from the Mennonite store, they sell 5 lb rolls of butter. I assume that they're using raw cream. Good stuff, you can see a difference in color between winter and summer; the butter has a deeper yellow color in summer.

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I love this place it inspires me, right after reading this thread I went to the smart & final a few blocks away and bought a gallon of Manufacturing cream. and made 3 nice tubs of butter and am now waiting for a couple of loafs of honey/walnut bread to rise.
without GIM I would not be doing either. I hope to get a grain mill soon to make my own flour.

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Find a health food store and get the cream line milk in glass jars (at my place the brand Crystal Ball Farms) it has been vat pasteurized and is the lowest heating of the milk to make it legal for sale in retail stores, but it is not homogenized so the cream floats to the top.

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See my previous post, #18 above. Waiting for your answer.