spreadable butter

ascot64

As part of my quest to not buy anything I can make last night my attention turned to spreadable butter.

I have for years bought Lurpak spreadable as it tastes fantastic and spreads straight from the fridge. But I am fed up of paying £2.41 for 500g.

Did a bit of research on the web and found a site that told me to blend 250g with a cup of sunflower oil. No need to melt the butter first just put the oil first into a jug and added the butter cut up into cubes.

I used my Bamix stick blender as I didn't fancy cleaning out the liquidiser and it took about 30 seconds of blending. Poured into a plastic container with a lid and left in the fridge overnight and it firmed up nicely.

Very happy that it only cost me about £1.10 in total as the butter was on special offer (Mr T) and I have almost as much as I used to get in a 500g tub of Lurpak spreadable.

DonnaDoop

You'll not believe this, but earlier today (while making a sandwich) I was thinking how much I could save if I could churn my own butter lol!!!! I am certainly going try this though - thanks

ragstoricheswannabe

i am so going to try this! we go through loads here. when you say a cup of oil, how many mls is that?

ascot64

My cup measure holds 250ml. Having said that I thought that next time I would try it with 200ml as it could do with being a tad firmer.

The consistency came out as very soft butter after chilling overnight and would be perfect for making sandwiches. However for putting on hot toast I would want it a little thicker. The taste was absolutley fine. Tasted exactly the same as the butter before adding the oil.

Pink.

Hi ascot,

Your recipe sounds great. I've added your thread to the existing one on making spreadable butter to keep the suggestions together.

DonnaDoop, I make butter in the food processor quite often when I see double cream reduced in the supermarket. This earlier thread has lots of tips:

Making my own butter! (merged)

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ceridwen

ascot64 wrote: »

As part of my quest to not buy anything I can make last night my attention turned to spreadable butter.

I have for years bought Lurpak spreadable as it tastes fantastic and spreads straight from the fridge. But I am fed up of paying £2.41 for 500g.

Did a bit of research on the web and found a site that told me to blend 250g with a cup of sunflower oil. No need to melt the butter first just put the oil first into a jug and added the butter cut up into cubes.

I used my Bamix stick blender as I didn't fancy cleaning out the liquidiser and it took about 30 seconds of blending. Poured into a plastic container with a lid and left in the fridge overnight and it firmed up nicely.

Very happy that it only cost me about £1.10 in total as the butter was on special offer (Mr T) and I have almost as much as I used to get in a 500g tub of Lurpak spreadable.

Thanks.

Now all I need to do is to figure out a way to make it the calorie equivalent of Lurpak Lighter spread....

bellaquidsin

ceridwen - just spread it on one half of the sandwich only.

Bella.

lizzyb1812

This brought back a childhood memory - my grandma used to mix butter and water to make the butter spread better. I'm definitely going to have a go at butter/water, butter/oil, butter/water/oil to see which tastes/spreads best as I am really sick of the taste of lower cal so called buttery spreads. If this method means I can spread butter more thinly then I'll be using less calories but still getting the taste I like. :j Thanks for the thread everyone :T

nesssie1702

Low cal spreads are full of water which is why it makes your toast go all soggy - yeuch

My granny used to make her own butter with the cream from the milk, in a butterchurn. I've got the paddle, but not the jar that she used to use..... One of these days when I've got time on my hands, I'll have to give it a try.

ascot64

I'd rather have a scraping of butter than low fat chemical laden margerine - it is one of my pet hates. Can you still buy St Ivel Gold - I hate that stuff with a vengeance.