Homemade Cow Butter?

[Saltysteele]

the dairy we used to get milk from went out of business (the fella retired). otherwise he would have kept selling it to us, despite the regulations nowaday

i would love to be able to find a local source!

 

[prairiehen74369]

This is the fastest butter I've ever made put you cream in a blender blend on high until the butter seperates add ice and the butter will gather to gather in a ball' Pour off whey add more ice water to wash the butter pour off water gather together in your hands squeese out all the water add salt put in a dish and enjoy. Best on homemade bread straight from the oven yum yum.

 

[Saltysteele]

i haven't had cream in a while (straight from the dairy), so have had to buy half and half and heavy cream. i've got an antique hand-crank churn with a gallon glass jar, and an old electric churn that sits on top of a gallon jar (or sits on whatever, really)

 

[prairiehen74369]

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just noticed Mis Prissy gave this same recipe...funny ...anyone else got a recipe for homemade butter??

 

[flgardengirl]

Do you have to buy cream or can you just get cows milk to make butter? Our local feed store has fresh cows milk for sale. In Florida it is labled as pet food due to law unless you are a licensed dairy or something. It is a little pricey (8 dollars/gal) but I would get some if I could make butter with it. I don't know if it has cream in it or how much etc.
Can you just use half and half from the regular store?

 

[BarefootMom]

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butter is made from the cream- you wouldn't want half and half- you would want heavy whipping cream

 

[flgardengirl]

Okay thanks. So heavy whipping cream from the grocery store would work okay?

 

[Saltysteele]

half and half is 1 part milk to 1 part cream. yes, you don't get as much, but i wasn't always able to find heavy cream.

as far as recipes, i've not made anything other than straight butter. haven't made it in a while, but it does work better when the cream is not straight outta the fridge cold, unless your trying to make whipping cream

just churn till the butter forms, skim butter into a bowl (i've always used a wooden bowl, as i've been told by older relatives that that is what they use and it works best; don't know if it truly works best, or not). using the back side of a wooden spoon, keep smooshing it into the sides of the bowl. as you do this, more whey gets squeezed out. add salt, then start smooshing again.

to be honest, i've never measured how much salt i put in it, either :?

the only thing i don't like about fresh butter, is how hard it gets when chilled.

 

[Saltysteele]

also, if you can purchase raw milk, you'd want to make sure the cream hasn't been skimmed off. you still may get a little by letting it sit. cream rises to the top, then you skim it off, but unless it sits, it will stay suspended for a bit. dairies have tanks that keep the milk mixing so the cream doesn't separate.

otherwise, if they've skimmed the cream off already, you're paying a lot for milk that doesn't contain much of what you're looking for.

 

[halfwaynowhere]

i use the glass jar method. Pour heavy whipping cream into a glass mason jar, add a few clean glass marbles to the jar, tighten the lid, and shake. Generally I'll sit in front of the tv shaking and rolling the jar while bread dough is rising. When it clumps together, I drain it, rinse, and add salt. then I have yummy fresh butter when my bread is done baking!