Made my own butter!!

Cherryfudge

Thanks @Longwalker! I'm only using dried milk out of last winter's emergency cupboard as I wanted to use up before it goes out of date, but I have heard of it being used as a thickener. 
Now I'm off to look for muslin...  

seatbeltnoob

Krakkkers said:

seatbeltnoob said:

Do you actually save any money with this?

4kg of butter would cost around £40.

it didn't answer my question - it just told me what the price of butter is.

Butter is all fat - fat is light. When you turn cream into butter, you extract their heaviest stuff out of the cream like water & protein. You dont get 1kg butter out of 1kg cream. You get far far less than that.

I just googled and someone on a quora discussion suggestions that from 1kg cream you get 100-150g butter.

Krakkkers

"I was fortunate a few weeks ago to get 8L of Morrisons whipping cream for £4 on a Sunday afternoon. I made just under 4kg of butter and used the buttermilk to make yogurt.
I will probably never be that lucky again, it felt like winning the lottery."

So about 500g of butter for each litre (50% fat) and 4kg of butter for £4, the information was all there.
4kg of butter from the shops would be £32-£40?

Krakkkers

Got 300ml of Yellow sticker double cream from Morrisons for 41p and got 147g of butter from it.
Double cream turns into butter way faster than whipping cream.

Cherryfudge

Krakkkers said:

Got 300ml of Yellow sticker double cream from Morrisons for 41p and got 147g of butter from it.
Double cream turns into butter way faster than whipping cream.

In addition, you get free buttermilk, which seems to cost quite a bit in the shops. Then you make the buttermilk into scones, which are also a lot more expensive than the sum of their ingredients.

My easiest butter came from some of the super-thick cream they sell at Christmas. Well worth looking out for this when they do the last minute reductions. I also had a go at turning brandy butter into cream and it worked but tasted... different.