Butter Recipe
6:57PM on October 30, 2008
 HOMEMADE BUTTER
2 cups heavy cream
1/4 teaspoon salt (optional but best to use it to last longer)
Pick your way to make it!! And HAVE FUN Some one should do a group show doing it the shaking way!!!
Pour cream into a food processor or blender. Process for 10 minutes, or until the butter separates. Strain off the liquid. Press butter into a small bowl with the back of a spoon to further remove liquid.
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All you need to make a small batch of butter is some heavy cream and a jar with a tight fitting lid. A plastic jar is better since if the jar falls it will not break but if you are careful a glass jar is great. A clear jar can tell you haw your better is coming along so it is best if the jar is clear.
First of all take your jar and fill it half full of the heavy cream. Then take the jar lid and place it tightly on the jar. Then take the jar and take turns shaking the jar. It will take a while to make butter so everyone will get a chance to shake the jar of heavy cream. Make a game of it and dance as you shake the jar with the heavy cream in it. Stop and check how the cream is every so often. You will see the heavy cream changing form as you shake it. Eventually the heavy cream will stick to the sides of the jar. This is the butter taking form.
Keep shaking the jar till the sides of the jar has butter covering it in spots. The liquid you see in the jar is butter milk. Pour the butter milk out of the jar and you can use the butter milk to bake something like butter milk bread or you can drink it as it is. You should have a jar of butter after you pour out the butter milk. This butter will need to be washed before you can use it. Wash the better with clean cold water till the water comes out clear. You will have to take a spoon and mix the butter in the jar occasionally to get all the butter to touch the water. When the water comes out clear you have butter. At this point you can sprinkle some salt on the butter and mix in to the butter if you wish.
Take the spoon and take the butter out of the jar and into a container. This butter is ready to use as it is. You can take a cracker or bread and spread the butter on it and eat it. Or you can bake something with this butter. You can use it as you would butter that you buy from the store.
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