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Butterfly_Brain

I no longer buy butter, I make it myself from reduced cream. I made 4lbs of butter and froze 3lbs for the grand sum of £1.00 worth of reduced double cream

GreyhoundAngel

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

I no longer buy butter, I make it myself from reduced cream. I made 4lbs of butter and froze 3lbs for the grand sum of £1.00 worth of reduced double cream

Butterfly - how do you make it please ?

Oh and errrm, roughly what would that be in grams ?

Purple_kitten

Ditto to what Grehoundangel says, I would love to know how to do it BB.

Butterfly_Brain

It really is easy the fabulous baker brothers did it on their tv show ....here is the episode, much easier to watch than explain.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-fabulous-baker-brothers/4od#3373460

malamay

Wow, I think I'll be making my own butter too. I am now kicking myself for passing up large tubs of double cream that were reduced to 1p at Mr T's thinking I didn't have freezer space for tubs..

evie451

This thread is an inspiration! thanks to everyone for making me feel better to have £97 in my bank acct to last me until the 28th......I thought I was skint until I read through all these wonderful posts! :j

I read the last post about the YS cream being turned into butter and wanted to give it a go, I was in Morrisons and saw the big tubs of dble cream reduced and got all excited til I realised they go off today (not a problem) but they were still a £1 each! :eek:

I was definetly not in at the right moment might go back later.....

Thanks so much folks the thread is a great read!

Butterfly_Brain

evie that is awfully expensive for something that is on its use by date. I find the best ys deals are in Tesco.
No wonder Morrisons is struggling.

Butterfly_Brain

A pack of butter is 250g so approximately 7oz so a lb roughly equates to about 450g. I don't do metric I am a child of the 60's and 70's

Butterfly_Brain

We had a soup and pudding night tonight. I made a celery and white stilton with cranberry soup using the last of the white stilton with cranberry that I had left from Christmas. served with a sliced crusty baguette (2 for £1 in Asda so I will make a mushroom soup for lunch tomorrow and use the second one up)
OMG it was lush, the potato was from the garden, 35p for the celery that was reduced in Aldi and the cheese was a leftover so no cost = 35p plus 50p for the baguette and a splash of cream that I needed to use up so the total cost was 85p and it served four good sized bowls so approx 21p a serving.

JCL

An inspiring thread and a great read - thanks to all who contributed (although some of the off topic comments around cuts in benefits were a bit silly in my view).