Also, knowing how to make butter is a great skill to have. Sometimes it's easier to whip up a batch of butter instead of getting out of the house to go to the store...and you never know when some basic homesteading skills might come in handy.
Bonus: making fresh butter means you also get fresh buttermilk!
Ingredients:
Cream (any quantity; I usually use a pint)
Salt (optional)
Directions:
- Pour cream into a blender or food processor. (I actually had better results this time using a bowl and my immersion blender, but you likely have a better quality blender than I do.)
- Blend the cream until it separates into butter and buttermilk. The butter will begin to look chunky and yellowish, and then a milky liquid will start to separate from the butter solids. Turn off the blender at this point.
- Pour the buttermilk out of your blender (through a strainer, if you feel you need one) into a measuring cup or other container.
Be sure to save it! Lots of recipes call for fresh buttermilk, but it's not something a lot of us have on hand day-to-day. At the very least, you can make buttermilk pancakes or use it on your cereal in the next couple of days. You will likely have to press on the butter with a spoon or spatula (or your fingers!) to squeeze out all of the buttermilk. Remove as much as you can to save it, because we're about to wash the rest away. - (This step is optional, but it makes the butter last much longer than if you omit it.) Wash the butter by adding about a cup of cold water to the blender with the butter and blending for about a minute. When you're finished, you'll have to repeat the straining & squeezing, as you did to remove the buttermilk (only there's no need to save the butter-washing water).
- (Second optional step) If you prefer salted butter, mix some salt into the butter. For a pint of cream, I find that a couple of dashes of salt is plenty.
- Eat up!

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I like the Girl Scout method of pouring the cream into a pint jar and shaking til the butter "comes", but this method is probably less work. :)
ReplyDeleteYes, my method is definitely the "lazy" one. ;) Shaking the cream could be good exercise, though!
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