Making your own butter can be a way of saving money when butter prices are high or when you just want a fun activity to do with the family. Homemade butter generally has a creamier textured and the recipe can be changed to suit your taste.
You can make homemade butter completely from scratch short of milking your own cow, or you can start with ready made butter and turn it into a specialty butter, such as herbed or honey butter.
Butter from Scratch
Making butter from scratch requires only two ingredients, although varying the types of these ingredients can really alter the kind of butter that you will make. it is very simple. You just need some amount of cream and some amount of salt. Some people use slightly soured cream so it doesn’t go to waste, but you can use either sweet or sour cream.
Take your cream and pour it into either a blender or a food processor. Make sure the lid is on tight (you may have to hold it on) and blend the cream for about five minutes. It will just start separating into butter and buttermilk. Let the blender rest for a few minutes. The butter will rise to the top. Once that happens, carefully pour off the buttermilk. You may want to save this butter milk to use in pancakes or waffles!
Congratulations, you have butter. But there is one more step you need to do if you aren’t eating your butter right then and there and that is to wash the butter. If you don’t wash it, it will spoil quickly.
Washing the Butter
To wash the butter pour really cold water into the blender and blend it for about half of a minute. Then pour all of the water out, squeezing the butter a little bit with a spoon to get as much moisture out as you can.
Ta Da!
Add your salt to taste and mix it in to the butter. Store in the refrigerator in a closed container. This is just yummy on homemade fresh baked bread.
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