Any Home Bakers Here?

[theuglyduckling]

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lol i started making my own butter and putting it on my own loafs of bread for toast i dont know if it makes it taste better (the butter taste better or not) but it taste like heaven!!

do you really make your own butter? how do you do that? i never thought of doing that before but it seems like it would be cheaper.

 

[Bridebeliever]

do you really make your own butter? how do you do that? i never thought of doing that before but it seems like it would be cheaper.

Homemade butter is so easy it's done many times in pre-school class in a jar for the little children to see how it's done! They add cream to the jar and keep shaking and passing it around until it gets solid!
Here's the basic recipe:
1 pint heavy cream
Salt to taste (I use kosher because it dissolves easily, about 1/4 tsp.)
Whip with a stand or hand mixer until it becomes solid and the liquid separates. I then chill it and then squeeze it with cheese cloth to get more liquid out. FYI, you can use that liquid (like buttermilk) in recipes!

 

[Jesusfreak101]

I just fill half a jar with heavy whipping cream and shake the dickens out of it until i start getting butter milk and some round ball like object(butter) then take the butter and rince it under cool water (while kneading it) and the add salt to it if i want to.

 

[theuglyduckling]

Homemade butter is so easy it's done many times in pre-school class in a jar for the little children to see how it's done! They add cream to the jar and keep shaking and passing it around until it gets solid!
Here's the basic recipe:
1 pint heavy cream
Salt to taste (I use kosher because it dissolves easily, about 1/4 tsp.)
Whip with a stand or hand mixer until it becomes solid and the liquid separates. I then chill it and then squeeze it with cheese cloth to get more liquid out. FYI, you can use that liquid (like buttermilk) in recipes!

now even pre-schoolers are smarter than me

I just fill half a jar with heavy whipping cream and shake the dickens out of it until i start getting butter milk and some round ball like object(butter) then take the butter and rince it under cool water (while kneading it) and the add salt to it if i want to.

now i feel stupid, this is too easy. cant believe i never thought of doing this.

 

[ronott1]

now even pre-schoolers are smarter than me
now i feel stupid, this is too easy. cant believe i never thought of doing this.

You can make butter using a mixer. It is as easy as making whipped cream. I did this once by accident because I thought if I whipped it longer it would last longer in the fridge. Instead I got chunks of butter!

There is a rinsing process you are supposed to do when making butter.

 

[Bridebeliever]

now even pre-schoolers are smarter than me
now i feel stupid, this is too easy. cant believe i never thought of doing this.

Don't feel dumb! How do any of us know how to do anything until we are shown or we read it! I didn't make butter until I was an adult...a neighbor friend accidentally over whipped her whipping cream and headed right in to butter...never knew it till then myself!

 

[wyoDreamer]

When he was young, my husbands mom had the kids make fresh butter for Easter dinner - it kept the kids occupied and out of trouble for a little while.

I made another French Silk Pie for Easter. this time I put the sugar in the blender before adding it in to the filling. It was better, but still slightly gritty. Next time I will try using powdered sugar. Should I measure cup for cup, or use weight?

 

[Jesusfreak101]

Hey i found a link on line of how to make butter we cant find something out until we ask question you never stop learning as long as there a question to be answered lol. And yeah butter is super and easy and a great work out i dont have a mixer so thats why i use the jar method. I am glad to say there never a stupid question cause i can ask alot of those. And just for this evening fun take chance get messy make mistakes!! (Magic school bus my favorite cartoon in the history of cartoons well educational one loontunes is me favorite goofy one same with tom and jerry

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[Jesusfreak101]

Wyo i would think cup for cup would be fine (the pun makes me laugh) any ways lol

 

[Bridebeliever]

When he was young, my husbands mom had the kids make fresh butter for Easter dinner - it kept the kids occupied and out of trouble for a little while.

I made another French Silk Pie for Easter.  this time I put the sugar in the blender before adding it in to the filling.  It was better, but still slightly gritty.  Next time I will try using powdered sugar.  Should I measure cup for cup, or use weight? 

It takes approximately 1 3/4 cups of powdered sugar to substitute for 1 cup of granulated sugar.