Ever fancied making your own butter, well here’s a wee video showing you just how quick and easy it is. It is a perfect time of year for making butter as there is often a glut of cream in the shops which you can often get reduced, mine cost 20p each. You can even freeze the cream and or butter for use at a later date.
Butter
https://youtu.be/ZDa60OaZCas
Ingredients
- 600mls of double or extra thick cream
- ¼tsp of salt
- Put the two ingredients into a large bowl and whisk.
- You keep whisking until the consistency changes and the cream starts to turn yellow.
- At this stage you will start to see watery milk coming away.
- Pour off any excess liquid, keeping for scones if you like.
- Whisk some more until it starts to form a mass.
- Squeeze out and remaining water or leave in a sieve for an hour or so.
- Pat into a rectangle and wrap in greaseproof paper or freeze until needed.
- It really is that simple…….enjoy.
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I remember churning butter for my Auntie Bridie, in a small hand churn. Lovely stuff – on warm potato cakes, fresh off the griddle, hung on the ‘crane’ over the turf fire – this brings the smell and the taste back, so clearly.
Another auntie (who shall remain nameless), wasn’t very good at making butter – it was always a bit watery, and….had thumb prints in it from when she shaped the pats!
I make small amounts of butter in a jam jar, using a small carton of cream. Play some loud music with a good beat and dance around while shaking the jar. 10 minutes does it.
A good idea, we did it recently when covering a walk with Vikings to Scapa beach, we had a Viking cookout and made butter in a jar.