Super-Easy Homemade Butter!

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This is so easy and way cool - great science lesson for the kids if you've got them and way to really impress that woman who stays the night.

Buy some heavy cream or whipping cream from the store. Sterilize a glass jar and its fitted lid (empty spaghetti sauce jar, salad dressing jar, etc.) just so long as it's COMPLETELY free of food, has been scrubbed clean and has gone through either the dishwasher or a boiling water plunge. The jar should be completely cooled. It helps if the jar is clear, but it's not important to the process.

Pour enough cream into the jar to fill the jar no more than 2/3's full. Place the lid on the jar tightly and put the jar somewhere on your counter where there won't be sun or heat getting to it and where it can sit undisturbed for 12 hours - overnight works.

In the morning (or 12 hours later), grab that jar and start shaking it like you're trying to shake a ketchup jar so that ketchup comes out.

Soon it will be difficult to feel anything moving around in the jar (this is close to a whipped cream stage). Keep shakin'!

Soon after that, you'll feel a mass moving back and forth and if your jar is clear, you'll see that the whole mass resembles curdled cream cheese and kind of sticks together. Keep shakin'!

Very soon after that, you'll start to see a mass of butter forming in the middle and milk around it.

Keep shakin' for a little while longer, then pour off the buttermilk into a cup or small glass. It's yummy!! Either drink it fresh or save it in the fridge to use in baking.

Place the butter into a small bowl. The butter may still exude buttermilk - it will look like it's sweating. If your butter is doing this still, you need to shake it up for a little while longer or stir vigorously. Keep straining off the buttermilk.

You have sweet cream butter which may not look like store-bought yellow butter. If you prefer salted butter, lightly salt your butter and stir WELL. Put this on hot toast, warm muffins or fresh-made bread.

This butter is not suited for cooking with, rather dressing finished goods with. Remember to keep this butter refrigerated.

Total time: 15 minutes of shakin'.
 

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I'll be trying this ASAP. As for the 15 minutes of shaking...well, that's what kids are for.:)
 

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This is lots of fun, we've done it in school before!
I think i'll try it again though,
thanks for the reminder of it
Aqua
 
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MA-Caver said:
I can't believe it's not butter...:rolleyes:

Uhhhhhhh ..... it IS .....:whip::rolleyes:
 

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That sounds pretty cool...I'll definitely have to try it sometime.

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I'm going to start some tonight and add honey to the finished product to make honey butter - will give you the review tomorrow night.
 

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So lemme get this straight...

Im leaving milk on the counter overnight... and then shakin it, but its not BAD.

RIIIIIIIIGHT.

If this doesnt work out, YOU are coming to clean the bathrooms here.
 
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Technopunk said:
So lemme get this straight...

Im leaving milk on the counter overnight... and then shakin it, but its not BAD.

RIIIIIIIIGHT.

If this doesnt work out, YOU are coming to clean the bathrooms here.
The hell I will. :whip: Not having anything to do with Techno Poop.

Cream, man - not milk, cream. You're churning butter without the big stick you have to pump up and down. Cuz, you know ... you do enough of that .... :ultracool
 

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Aw, hell...I ain't touching that one...nope...not gonna do it...wouldn't be prudent...

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shesulsa said:
Cream, man - not milk, cream. You're churning butter without the big stick you have to pump up and down. Cuz, you know ... you do enough of that .... :ultracool
 

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shesulsa said:
You're churning butter without the big stick you have to pump up and down. Cuz, you know ... you do enough of that .... :ultracool

With 6,500+ posts, Shesulsa gets the freedom to say the things I wish I could get by with. You're my hero.
 
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Navarre said:
With 6,500+ posts, Shesulsa gets the freedom to say the things I wish I could get by with. You're my hero.
Oh, I'll likely get a warning any time now. No one is (nor should be) immune to the rules of the board.
 
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arnisador said:
I think I've dropped into Weird Al's "Amish Paradise"...

Crap! Is THAT where I've been all these years???
 

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shesulsa said:
Crap! Is THAT where I've been all these years???

Amish Paradise...for someone posting from a computer (as if you'd post from anything else...yeesh), isn't that a bit of an oxymoron?

:)

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The honey butter turned out AWESOME!!! I'm makin' more!!!

So, just follow the recipe, add a pinch of salt and start with about two tablespoons of honey. Add more if you want a sweeter taste. Great over fresh-baked cornbread!!
 

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*Stern Look to Shesulsa*.......

Ahems.. and you know the rules... Behave or else~!!!

:whip:

Q.O.P.


pssst... I remember making butter that way when we had a bicentennial celebration in my old home town.. it works and it's verrry good~!!
 
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Well, ma'am ... what is a day, really, without a tap on the behind from the Q.O.P.?

Okay, okay, I'll be good. I promise! :)
 

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