Making my own butter! (merged)

youngie

well done brilliant bit of money saving I've never tried this but you have inspired me to keep an eye out for reduced cream and give it a go and yes I'd like to see you recipe

Dizzy_Ditzy

i made my own for the first time yesterday, and i was well pleased with the result

will definitely be doing it again

frankie1star

I made my own for the first time this week 8 x 330ml double cream for 80p, nothing to lose really, have frozen and will use for cooking

BAGGY

Can you use single cream or does it have to be double or whipping?

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Wonderful.

Pity my local supermarkets would rather throw cream in the bin than take more than 20p off the price.

maverick18

Hi Mothership

What a fantastic post!! I must say I am very interested to try this so will keep an eye out for some reduced cream and give it a go.

Once again thanks very much xx

VfM4meplse

Great idea. It only ever seems to be the 600ml tubs that are reduced in my local supermarket but this seems like a good use of them.

mummyjane

What a bargain! I keep looking out for whoopsied cream, do you know if you can freeze the cream as it comes to use later? I presume you can.

ladylouise62

I never see cream reduced by much.

Terrysdelight

Mothership wrote: »

I made 5 batches of butter from 5 x 600 ml tubs of Double Cream I got reduced for 20p each.

It took approximately 10 min to make each batch. One tub at a time.

The first batch was made with just the cream and was quite firm, I will use that for cooking, I added 100 ml of Rice Bran oil to the next batch, (sunflower or olive oil would be just as good.) I also added half teaspoon of salt, just perfect much nicer than Lurpack.

Whip the cream until it peaks then add 100 ml of oil, place the whipped cream in a tupperware tub, it works best if the cream half fills the container, (one with a tight fitting lid).
Now all you do is shunt the container from one hand to the other, moving the contents from side to side as you go, after a while the butter begins to form and it releases the buttermilk. Open the container and have a wee taste, if its too soft , shunt it a little more , empty the contents into a sieve over a bowl and gently squeeze the liquid to release as much of the buttermilk as possible, take care not to press too hard or it will stick to the sieve. Transfer the butter onto a board and shape to fit the container your storing it in, then turn the board over and pop in the butter in the fridge. I used the ones from Home Bargains 5 for 79p.

From the 5 x 600 ml tubs I also got 1 Litre of buttermilk, which I froze most of for making scones.

I made a batch of scones using the first lot of butter I made with some of the buttermilk, absolutely yummy!

Easy to make, great fun! And ... You can freeze it.

If anyone wants the scone recipe I'd be happy to post it.

You don't often see reduced butter, but you can always find reduced cream.

That's brilliant - I would never have thought of making my own butter - just didn't know you could. Please post the recipe - I'd love to give it a try - thanks.