Making my own butter! (merged)

Pont

I've always wanted to make my own butter and cheese, but have never come across a 'modern' take on an 'old' art. I've looked up all different ways of churning, such as cutting off the end of coke bottles and shaking it all about alot!!!! OP please pm with a fool proof way as I, albeit a little romantic - can remember patting butting in the scullery with Aunt Mary many moons ago - and would love the taste of authentic farm butter again.

nicola1303

DOH! I couldn't remember if it was single or double cream so left the ' reduced to 20p ' massive pots of double cream on the shelf at the Co-op yesterday. Oh well, at least I'll know for next time.

Kaz2904

http://www.allotment.org.uk/allotment_foods/Making_Butter_at_Home.php
This is the recipe I used. I made 4lbs yesterday with 12 pots of butter I got for 10p each. I was very happy with the results and can't wait to try it on my reduced tea cakes tomorrow morning . I used my K beater on the kenwood chef.

nobodyspecial

Mothership wrote: »

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

Oh God, I wish!!!!!

Never, ever, in over 20 years seen cream reduced by more than 20-30p a tub, just not economical

VoucherMan

Mothership wrote: »

but you can always find reduced cream.

Really?

You've obviously not shopped in my local supermarkets.

Unfortunately the last time I made and butter it was with Guernsey cream, and even if I could get ordinary cream cheap it wouldn't taste half as good.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

there was a post in one of there threads somewhere over or just before christmas about making butter, so i bought 3 large tubs of double crean that ahd been reduced to 11p each..... before i had a change to try and make some butter the kids and hubby had more or less used it all:mad::rotfl:

they will have cream with anything if they could

tulip12

BAGGY wrote: »

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

It does,nt work with single cream. My hubby made butter with double cream a couple of times last year and it works well. Don't forget to use the butter milk too, good for scones. I don't seem able to find reduced cream very often though.

Pee

and you can use the buttermilk for blueberry muffins.

Fantastic idea, yes, from time to time there is lots of cheap cream about.

hex2

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

they will have cream with anything if they could

same here

I make it with reduced cream and freeze it. The key things are to keep on going as it takes longer than you think, if you stop too early it doesn't melt well. Also to rinse as much of the butter milk as you can out. My DH made me some simple butter pats and it still suprises me how much more liquid I can get out.

The original magazine article I read a few years ago suggested using a washed out large milk carton as this allows you to tip and rinse the buttermilk easily, and lets you cut the butter out at the end. We did try this and it worked, but it took forever. Good for bingo wings but I wouldn't want to do more than one that way! The boys got bored and gave up long before it was ready.

I was using the food processor but last week I had a batch that just wouldn't go so I swapped to the kenwood and the k beater which did a much better job.

Quite rare to get RTC double cream here but the co-op cleared a lot of the bulk pots after C'mas. I don't think you can freeze double cream without whipping it, and if you are going to whip it then you may as well make the butter.

My mum used to have an attachment on her kenwood for making cream out of unsalted butter. I must ask her how it worked.

Pink.

I'm quite lucky to be able to regularly get lots of massively reduced cream where I live so I frequently make my own butter.

It works best if the cream is at room temperature before you begin. Try to get every last drop of buttermilk out if you can as if you don't it can turn rancid relatively quickly and don't forget that butter freezes well.

As we have an existing thread on making butter I'll add this thread to it to keep the tips and advice in one place.

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