Making my own butter! (merged)

Gigervamp

Honestly, if you like cream, you'll like the butter.

ZLS1984

Ok you have twisted my arm I will give it a try. I am worried though that I have not got all the buter milk out. Is there something I can buy to help me with this?

Gigervamp

Yay! Half the fun of making things is getting to try them.

I got some wooden butter pats from ebay (also called scotch hands I think) and they help a bit, but I can never squeeze out all of the buttermilk.

ampersand

Well, all my reduced cream is out of fridge to reach room temperature - weight just over 5lbs/2.4 litres.
I suspect/hope the hardest work has been finding this Thread again - putting 'buttermaking' in the Forum search isn't sufficiently specific and I am then distracted to other Threads........
Anyway, first steps taken and will be using 'inherited' Kenwood Processor.
May report back.........depending.
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Help needed now, please.
Have made 2 lbs butter and last 600 ml of double cream is refusing to whip up.
Could it be that the Kenwood has become too warm?

nettles77

Somewhere. Thanks

Pink.

Hi nettles,

Yes it is, but it takes a lot of shaking. Have a look at the first post in this thread:

Making my own butter!

I usually make it when I've found some reduced price cream (needs to be whipping or double as single cream doesn't contain enough fat) using the food processor and it takes minutes but if you don't have a food processor or an electric whisk then the jam jar method works well...just takes more effort. If you have kids, it's a good idea to get them involved to take turns shaking the jar.

I'll add your post to that thread later to keep the suggestions together.

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craftynutters

http://www.downsizer.net/Projects/Processing_food/Making_Butter/
THIS MIGHT HELP

GreenandThrifty

you've just reminded me of my grandad he told me once when he worked as a farm hand one of his perks was to take home a jar of cream at the end of the week. He popped a couple of marbles in it then spent the evening turning the jar as it turned into butter. I must try it one day

nettles77

thanks everyone.

craftyfox

we do it as a hobby at the steam engine rallys over the summer and usually make about 2 churn worth at a time and sell it as country butter and they go mad for it - the churn we use has a motor on it but can also be turned by hand or my mother has a bottle churn which is a large jar with wooden paddles and a handle on the lid this will make about a pound of butter but shaking the cream in the jam jar is just as effective