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How to Make Your Own Butter
Have you ever thought about making your own butter? About 100 years ago it was the only way to make butter, but with mass-produced butter most people just buy their butter at the store. However, when you make your own butter, you know exactly what is going into your butter, you get a good workout and you get the satisfaction knowing that you are helping the environment.
Making your own butter is environmentally-friendly because when you make your own butter, you are only buying whipping cream. You are not buying the processing needed to make butter, you are not buying additional ingredients and you are reducing the amount you buy because you will only be making butter every few weeks, while conserving what you make.
In order to make butter, do the following:
- Let the whipping cream get to room temperature.
- Put cream in jar with tight lid.
- Shake jar for 30 min. As you shake the jar, you will find that it becomes like whipped cream and then suddenly the cream will separate from the butter and it will be sloshing around in the jar. Shake for a few more minutes.
- Once done, you will see a lump of butter in the middle that will be quite soft. Pour out the cream, which is now buttermilk.
- Put cold water into jar and shake, and then pour out water. Do this until the water comes out clear.
- Get butter out of the jar and onto a plate. Put salt on it, mix it on the plate and form into a butter block shape.
- Put in fridge to chill.
That is all there is to making your own butter. When you make your own butter, you get a great workout because you are shaking the jar for about 30 minutes. This gives your upper body more strength and it can even help you lose weight. Who would have thought making butter would be good for your body and your weight?
About one litre of whipping cream will make a typical butter block. Since you are making your own butter, you will probably start conserving the butter you have, otherwise you will end up making your own butter every few days and while you will get in great shape, you will get very tired. It is worth it though, for you and the environment.
Enjoy your butter!