Anyone ever made butter?

[northernhord]

I imagine you'd need as much milk as there is water in Lake Windermere to make a half pound block.

Any of you rural folksies ever dabbled in the art of butter making?

 

[Stig]

Butter is easy!

Get some cream.

Put it in a jar

Shake it and Shake it and Shake it and Shake it and Shake it and Shake it and Shake it and Shake it and Shake it and

Just when you get really bored and you're about to give up,

it will go 'splosh splosh splosh Thump! it's that instant. Instead of cream there will be butter and whey water.

Put tap water in it, rinse it out, and what's left will be lovely pure butter. If you're me, you'll want to get it in a bowl and mix a bit of salt in with a fork. Job done.

 

[Stanley Edwards]

Oh yes.

I know how to make butter and butter milk.

Firstly, you need proper fresh whole cream milk and a butter churn (or, a Kenwood Chef circa 1978 with special butter churning attachment).

Actually, that's all you need. A couple of pints of full cream will give an ounce or, so of real butter and some lovely chilled buttermilk.


If you don't have the automaton you just beat forever with a big stick. All good things come to those who wait.


e2a: Jam jar method works also.

 

[northernhord]

Butter is easy!

Get some cream.

Put it in a jar

Shake it and Shake it and Shake it and Shake it and Shake it and Shake it and Shake it and Shake it and Shake it and

Just when you get really bored and you're about to give up,

it will go 'splosh splosh splosh Thump! it's that instant. Instead of cream there will be butter and whey water.

Put tap water in it, rinse it out, and what's left will be lovely pure butter. If you're me, you'll want to get it in a bowl and mix a bit of salt in with a fork. Job done.

I,m avin a bit of that defo

 

[Stig]

Can't remember what sort of cream. I only ever did it once as as an experiment. I reckon you'll have to have a go at all of them, but I imagine if I ever bought cream it would be bog standard supermarket either double or single, I hardly ever buy whipping or clotted or anything else, so there's a start...

 

[northernhord]

Can't remember what sort of cream. I only ever did it once as as an experiment. I reckon you'll have to have a go at all of them, but I imagine if I ever bought cream it would be bog standard supermarket either double or single, I hardly ever buy whipping or clotted or anything else, so there's a start...

cheers stig
*Waits for reduced priced cream at poopermarket*

 

[mrs quoad]

Ummmmmmmmm.

Oh! Yes!

I wrote a few utterly filthy poems about butter in my yoof Mostly about the length of 2-3 text messages conjoined

Utterly butterly smutterly were certainly three of the rhymes

HOWEVER.

After this thread, I are make butter too

 

[Stanley Edwards]

Just using cream is cheating.

For the full-on butter milk plus butter experience you need proper unadulterated full cream milk

gets yourself a Kenwood Chef plus attachments.

 

[Stig]

Just using cream is cheating.

For the full-on butter milk plus butter experience you need proper unadulterated full cream milk

gets yourself a Kenwood Chef plus attachments.

Using electricimety is cheating.

Why waste the earths resources and your elecktrickery bill on it when you can shake it in a jam jar?

If I want easy butter, I'll just buy some butter.

If I want to make my own, I want the whole 'shake shake splosh splosh thump' experience.
It is an amazing thing. Why would you want to miss that?

 

[Guineveretoo]

I once made it by accident by trying to use an electric whisk to whisk double cream and not realising how quick it would whisk it.

Of course, that when was when I was a Yoof, Hippy, Communard etc. etc. who knew nothing, including how to use an electric whisk!

 

[Stig]

I once made it by accident by trying to use an electric whisk to whisk double cream and not realising how quick it would whisk it.

Of course, that when was when I was a Yoof, Hippy, Communard etc. etc. who knew nothing, including how to use an electric whisk!

Did you eat it though?

I still don't know how to use an electric whisk. Never had one of them things.

 

[Guineveretoo]

Too right I ate it. It was gorgeous, particularly because it was back in the days when everyone thought that butter was bad for you, so we had to eat this disgusting margarine stuff made from petrol and whale blubber or similar. It was a treat, it was.

I don't own an electric whisk, but I think I know how to use one

 

[northernhord]

I wonder if you could use one of them windey up eco machine thingies to make the budder in?

 

[Guineveretoo]

what is a "windey up eco machine thingy"?

 

[northernhord]

what is a "windey up eco machine thingy"?

Ssoz about the vagueness, a bit bladdered here, its an environmentally friendly washing machine that runs without electricity, it has a winding arm on the side that you wind the drum round with that contains your washin

 

[story]

Like one of these, northernhord?

New-fangled gizmo for Guineveretoo

 

[Guineveretoo]

Didn't butter used to be made in something just like that?

Isn't it called a butter churn, in fact?

 

[pennimania]

I made butter when I was staying at Tinkers Bubble, a low impact community in Somerset.

The milk was straaight from the cow

There was a thing like a big jam jar with a screw on top and a windy handle - we passed it round when our hands got tired.

It tasted utterly delicious,

 

[northernhord]

Like one of these, northernhord?

New-fangled gizmo for Guineveretoo

That's the Baby

 

[northernhord]

I made butter when I was staying at Tinkers Bubble, a low impact community in Somerset.

The milk was straaight from the cow

There was a thing like a big jam jar with a screw on top and a windy handle - we passed it round when our hands got tired.

It tasted utterly delicious,

As a side line, good to see that Tinkers Bubble kicked ass in court

 

[pennimania]

As a side line, good to see that Tinkers Bubble kicked ass in court

Tinkers rule

 

[northernhord]

Tinkers rule

For sure

 

[mrsfran]

If there's two of you, you can save aching arms by rolling the cream in a jar back and forth between you

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I made butter in primary school in 1964. A teacher collected all the cream from the top of every bottle of free milk provided to children (glass bottles, one third of a pint size) and we all had a go and churned it and we all had some on a cream cracker after lunch. We learned to card and comb wool from the school sheep too. One of the teachers sheared it (somewhat inexpertly). This was a London primary. I didn't realise how amazing it was till my own kids were primary age.

 

[mr steev]

Isn't it called a butter churn, in fact?

It is

I remember making at primary school too (from milk I seem to remember, not cream)

 

[guinnessdrinker]

Using electricimety is cheating.

Why waste the earths resources and your elecktrickery bill on it when you can shake it in a jam jar?

If I want easy butter, I'll just buy some butter.

If I want to make my own, I want the whole 'shake shake splosh splosh thump' experience.
It is an amazing thing. Why would you want to miss that?

but some of us are getting on a bit. what we need is a wind powered butter churn.

 

[Xanadu]

So how long do you have to churn/shake it for?

 

[zoooo]

I made butter in primary school in 1964. A teacher collected all the cream from the top of every bottle of free milk provided to children (glass bottles, one third of a pint size) and we all had a go and churned it and we all had some on a cream cracker after lunch. We learned to card and comb wool from the school sheep too. One of the teachers sheared it (somewhat inexpertly). This was a London primary. I didn't realise how amazing it was till my own kids were primary age.

I did both those things too! In the 80s.

 

[geminisnake]

I made butter in primary school in 1964.

I made butter at school too, about 10 yrs later
We used a churn and took turns at turning/stirring the thing. Stig's jar idea sounds so much easier, but you have to keep it moving I've been told(a few years ago)

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

butter churn? pah

use this

paint mixer and milk