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| Lorie Marler |
Posted - May 22 2009 : 10:28:42 PM
Does anyone make their own?
What equipment do you use?
A friend of mine wanted a butter churn to make her own butter so I have been on the look out for her and found a few but golly they are expensive. The antique ones and the new ones both.
I did find instructions for making it in a blender so am going to try this weekend. Wish me luck. If it works I am hoping to surprise her with the recipe and some butter (she doesn't have internet)
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| hill farm lady |
Posted - Jun 16 2009 : 3:04:47 PM
Lehman's catalogue (Amish, nonelectric) has a butter churn in it. Basically a glass jar with paddles. When I was a Waldorf kindergarten teacher we made butter to go with the bread that was made once a week. Oh, how the kids loved it! My own children, now all grown, all feel like they can make bread anytime they want! Teaching children to make some of their food gives them a good sense of self-worth and competence.
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| SpiritedRose |
Posted - Jun 16 2009 : 08:13:30 AM
If you add a couple marbles to the cream, it will help churn it into cream quicker.
Works in a mason jar if you're just shaking it, too. Kids love adding marbles. :) |
| arabianhorselover |
Posted - Jun 13 2009 : 6:50:00 PM
I use my DH to make butter. 
We get our raw milk from the dairy and then we pour it into a plastic container. Let it sit overnight in the fridge to seperate and then ladle out the cream, put it in a mason jar and the he starts shaking. Takes him about 20-30 mins. Then we have butter. Yummy!!!
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| lilwing |
Posted - Jun 13 2009 : 12:34:21 AM
Cheryl, I absolutely used to abhor cottage cheese but now I can't seem to get enough of it since I've been eating healthier. I have yet to try this or the butter (we have some storebought butter and am waiting til we run out) .. but I will and I will be making both and giving my own little report once I do! I hope this cottage cheese recipe is a good one! lol.
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| Tapestry |
Posted - Jun 10 2009 : 1:36:45 PM
I did it! I made real honest to goodness butter. It was amazingly easy and a very good workout for my arms..LOL. I intend to pass this knowledge on to my sons and their girlfriends. Try to get some new family traditions going. When I told my mom about doing this she said she remembered many a time at home bouncing a quart jar on her knee when she was a little girl to help her mother. She also mentioned my grandmother's butter churn and had forgotten that I have it and we shared some memories of her taking her turn at the churn too. I have to say it tastes delicious!
Thanks lilwing for finding a cottage cheese recipe. I had no idea it was that easy. I remember tasting some one of my great aunts made when I was a girl and I didn't like it at all but I'd love to try again. The whole idea of eating foods I've raised or made from scratch is very appealing. More so every time I hear another horror story on TV about food poisoning.
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| lilwing |
Posted - Jun 08 2009 : 11:35:07 PM
http://www.savvyhousekeeping.com/?p=98 -I am going to try this cottage cheese recipe soon! :)
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| MissDotty |
Posted - Jun 07 2009 : 6:37:16 PM
I just wanted to share with all the butter makers who live near HyVee groceries stores: they have organic non-homogenized milk on sale right now. |
| Contrary Wife |
Posted - Jun 06 2009 : 12:49:45 PM
I bought a hand churn with the wooden paddles at a garage sale about 15 years ago for $5 and it works great.
Jessica, Jerseys and Gurnseys have the highest butterfat content in their milk, (I think) but honestly, it will vary from breed to breed and you can have a cow that has more or less than what is considered "normal" for her breed. So I would have to say the best cow to have for butter is one that will stand still for you to milk and not kick you and put her foot in the milk bucket *GRIN*.
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| paintnpencils |
Posted - Jun 06 2009 : 09:06:45 AM
I was checking out a website listed in the mary jane mag it was www.lehmans.com they have new glass jar butter churns! it is a hand crank and says it churns 2 1/2 quarts of butter in less than 30 minutes! Does anyone know what would be the best breed of cow to make butter?
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| FebruaryViolet |
Posted - Jun 05 2009 : 06:36:43 AM
Well, I guess I'm going to have to break down and do this. I keep thinking and thinking about it, and over "processing" it but y'all have just explained it too simply. Now I have no excuses! I will make butter on Sunday, and I won't have to buy any :)
Another question....does this butter hold up to baking as well?
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| southerncrossgirl |
Posted - Jun 05 2009 : 04:10:35 AM
Okay, I made butter this morning. We had gotten a gallon of milk from the dairy farmer down the road. How much butter should it have made? I didn't seem to make that much, but it was sooo good! Do you think I didn't shake it long enough?
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| pamcook |
Posted - Jun 02 2009 : 1:32:18 PM
I read that article in Mother Earth - I don't use cultures and I still love my butter ;)
Searching for cottage cheese recipes...
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| lilwing |
Posted - Jun 01 2009 : 9:48:01 PM
Wow!I didn't know it was so easy to make butter. I am going to have to do that myself as well...
Also, I'd LOVE to know how to make homemade cottage cheese!! Yes, anyone???
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| Tapestry |
Posted - Jun 01 2009 : 04:43:51 AM
I haven't posted in awhile but this posting I had to stop lurking and jump in. We have a family "treasure" that when it comes to me will have been passed down 4 generations. It's a mason jar with a chunk of very very old butter. My great grandmother used to keep their butter in a bucket lowered into the well during the warmer months to prevent spoilage. One day while trying to fetch the bucket up out of the well she somehow managed to fall into the well. Fortunately someone heard her yelling for help and they got her out. She was hanging onto a jar of butter determined to bring some up one way or the other. She declared that jar to be her lucky jar of butter because someone heard her calls for help. I have her butter churn and while I've never tried making butter I may give it a go now that I know how easy it is. It might be fun to pass on a new generation of lucky butter along with grandma's. Along this same line has anyone ever made homemade cottage cheese and if so a recipe please?
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| urban farm girl |
Posted - May 31 2009 : 5:35:32 PM
This is weird ..just reading about making butter in Mother Earth...my husband was saying how his mom used the mixer to make butter...then I check out the forum ...man you girls ROCK!! You make it sound so simple...gotta try it now! Thanks girls! |
| Prairie Princess |
Posted - May 31 2009 : 03:47:41 AM
I did it!! Lol! It turned out very nice! I blogged about it.... and added pictures! Can you tell I'm excited about the fact I made my own butter?? 
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| Prairie Princess |
Posted - May 29 2009 : 5:38:31 PM
I am going to try making butter tonight, lol. Thanks to the inspiration of my MJF farmgirl sistas! Bought heavy cream on my way home....now wish me luck! 
~Jodi
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| theknottysheep |
Posted - May 26 2009 : 3:57:51 PM
oooo - this is going to be fun! Thanks for all the wonderful tips on making butter!
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| StitchinWitch |
Posted - May 26 2009 : 12:36:22 PM
We shook the cream in a canning jar for a few years until I found an old 1/2 gallon crank churn for a price I could afford. The kids were always willing to shake the jar. I think it was kind of the same thing as cranking the ice cream maker -- the magic of seeing one substance turn into something different.
Judith
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| pamcook |
Posted - May 25 2009 : 08:00:12 AM
I buy a pint of heavy cream from the local dairy - get it at the grocery store or from the dairy's ice cream parlor. I bring it home and pour it into a quart sized canning jar. A rather slow shaking takes typically 20 minutes to make butter. At first, it just sounds like milk sloshing, a few minutes later, you don't hear anything and you can't see into the jar. Then you start hearing the sloshing and will see the milk pull away from the sides and you can see your butter forming a ball. I pour it into my strainer, collecting the buttermilk for my waffle batter. I rinse the butter several times with cold water, roll it into a ball shape and store it in a glass refrigerator dish. DH doesn't notice if its salted or not so usually I don't bother with salting it. This amount usually lasts a couple of weeks for us.
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| forgetmenot |
Posted - May 24 2009 : 8:16:27 PM
Wow! I love this site. Just learned soooooo much about making butter! Thank you. |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - May 24 2009 : 7:27:43 PM
I am always amazed at how bright a yellow our butter is. Jersey milk has alot of cream in it...about 1 quart to every gallon of milk.
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| Betty J. |
Posted - May 24 2009 : 7:07:08 PM
Thank you for answering my silly question. I do remember my grandmother's butter being a pale yellow and the buttermilk had a bluish tinge to it. My grandparents cattle were mostly grazed on field grass--whatever grew. At milking time grandpa would sweeten the pot with a little grain.
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| MissDotty |
Posted - May 24 2009 : 6:40:00 PM
Butter from cow's milk will vary in color depending on the type of cow and the diet it ate. The yellow is from beta-carotene among other things. At one point color was a sign of quality to some, so butter was occasionally colored with annatto to make the color stronger (this also happened with certain cheeses). By separating the whey from the other components of the milk, you see the colors become more pronounced. Whey it self has a blue-green cast, which acts as an optical brightener, making milk appear whiter than it is. |
| Mamarude |
Posted - May 23 2009 : 7:56:40 PM
We have a foster child this weekend, Yesterday we picked up our fresh raw milk at the farm and he was amazed by the concept. My oldest son asked him if he would like to make butter, he was even more thrilled when I offered to make a loaf of fresh bread to go with their butter. They skimmed off the cream and made butter in a mason jar while the bread baked, the three boys ate a whole loaf, our foster friend was amazed! I love introducing kids to where food ACTUALLY comes from ! |
