Making my own butter! (merged)

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Hi paganflossy,

As your thread has now dropped down the Old Style board I've added it to the main thread on making butter where you'll find lots of advice and your questions may help others.

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mardatha

Can you make butter with ordinary blue milk?

FairyPrincessk

You might get a bit of butter out of it, but you really need cream. The thicker the better! There is only about 4% fat in blue milk, so in theory you would only be able to turn a very small portion of it into butter. However, most milk is homogenized to keep the cream mixed in as opposed to floating to the top, so I'm not even sure if it would work that way.

FairyPrincessk

I should have added-I wish! Considering the way the price of butter keeps rising! I'd start buying jugs of milk and making OH shake it!

mardatha

yes LOL ! I agree!

thriftwizard

All I can say is, it's b****y hard work! We have a small butter churn, bought off Ebay as part of a home-ed project, and any thoughts the DDs had of being dairymaids in a post-carbon localised economy fled after the first attempts - there are definitely some things better done on an industrial scale! And certainly not cost effective - you'd need a heck of a lot of gold-top milk if you're not using cream.

THIRZAH

During the war my grandmother made butter using the top of the milk but you'd need to buy bottled milk for that.She also used to whip it up with a little pump type thing that fitted in a beaker to make "cream

rachbc

i know how you trun cream to butter but daft q of the day -how do you get cream from milk?

meritaten

You dont rach! the milk we buy has already had the cream, er, 'creamed' off, then you have to buy a little carton of it!

mardatha

We still get bottles of real milk here, but I dont fancy making butter with it.. couldn't remember if it was milk or cream you used. TY !