Shake whipping cream, make butter

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Adios Pantalones

Adios Pantalones

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Made butter from online instructions. I put a pint of room temp heavy whipping cream into a quart jar, lidded, and shook. Soon you have whipped cream. Keep shaking (a bit harder- it sticks a bit) and the buttermilk separates out. Shake some more, pour it off, add water and shake to rinse it.

I was surprised- it was fun and produced a surprising amount of butter! Probably a fun project for kids.
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Might want to try this with my 4 year old, as we always have a container or two left over after holidays. I use some for Irish Coffee, but not all of it.

However, what do you mean by this statement?

Adios Pantalones said:
...pour it off, add water and shake to rinse it.
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After you pour off the buttermilk, add water to cover the butter, shake and pour that off. You want to rinse remaining buttermilk off I think because it spoils faster than butter would.
 
I don't know about butter . . . but there's nothing quite like home-made, thick whipped cream.

On a side note . . . as a kid my grandmother (Nana) used to make butter and sell it at local stores. Was pretty darn fresh since I would help my grandfather bring the milk from their cow inside. My Nana would then skim the milk and then it was put into a hand cranked glass churn. I think she must have added salt . . . there may have been some other steps . . . I just remember after cranking it would thicken up and she would press the butter into a mold and then wrap them in thick paper. Sad thing is . . . I grew up eating only margarine . . . I suspect today I would have loved that butter.
 
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Dang it. Now I am gonna have to try. Any specific cream content, or any other catch 22? I have heard of people using a food processor too, but have never witnessed it.

Ahhh...found one.
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Jags said:
Dang it. Now I am gonna have to try. Any specific cream content, or any other catch 22? I have heard of people using a food processor too, but have never witnessed it.

Ahhh...found one.
(broken link removed to http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Homemade-Butter-2/)
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I went with the "no tricity" method. I read that heavy cream is best, heavy whipping cream should work. 33+% is supposedly what you're looking for
 
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Screw that, there ain't no Nitrous to suck down and catcha buzz off of!
Whipits, I want my whipits!!!!!!!!
 
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I've done it in the Cuisinart.
 
I have one of these. I fill it up with cold cream and pass it around class to make my advanced bio organic chem lesson somewhat palatable.
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I did it in 3rd grade or something. Spread it on some crackers and it was sweet and savory.
 
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Adios Pantalones said:
Made butter from online instructions. I put a pint of room temp heavy whipping cream into a quart jar, lidded, and shook. Soon you have whipped cream. Keep shaking (a bit harder- it sticks a bit) and the buttermilk separates out. Shake some more, pour it off, add water and shake to rinse it.

I was surprised- it was fun and produced a surprising amount of butter! Probably a fun project for kids.View attachment 124672
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I like the butter dish. why the double handles? Is it a soup cup?

The buttermillk can be used in cooking.
 
Dune said:
The buttermillk can be used in cooking.
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Marinate chicken for one hour, then typical dredge in flour/egg/panko bread crumbs. Fried chicken at its best.
 
i learned this on accident when I was younger. I'm still convinced there's nothing wrong with frosting a cake with butter...mom disagrees.
 
Mmmmm...bacon cheeseburger cake with butter frosting.
 
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is there still no "double like" button?
 
Every holiday my mom made homemade butter. I learned very quickly to disappear if I didn't want to get stuck with the job of shaking a container for what seemed like hours!
 
When I was a kid milkin' and churnin' was 2 of my regular jobs, glass churn ( 2 gallon, I think ) w/crank and gearbox on top, once it got to be butter Mother took over ........... guess I wasn't trusted with the technical and sanitary stuff ...............
 
First time I ever heard of it was back in the 60's when my little cousin was in kindergarten. The teacher asked that each child bring in a half pint of cream--I'm sure it was whipping cream. They didn't even open the cartons, just shook and shook.
I remember my Aunt saying, "Kippy, tell Sue what you made in school today." His eyes got wide, his face split into a big grin as he exclaimed, "Butter!"

Great Pic, AP--also, what did you do with that REAL buttermilk? I don't care to drink it, but I would use it for making good stuff to eat.
 
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I like to use buttermilk for breadmaking......yum.
 
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