Ingredients and Equipment An empty jar with a tight fitting lid Heavy Cream Salt a marble a few energetic kids dance music Directions Pour the cream into the jar, add some salt and the marble. Put on the music and shake it up! Shake hard and keep going. Pass it around when your arms get tired...and they will.
Shake it up Baby, twist and shout...
"Shake,shake,shake, shake,shake,shake, shake your butter."
Come on over Baby, whole lotta shakin' going on.
It looks like whipped cream at first
You will see the butter start to form in about thirty minutes it will begin to solidify and form a ball
and separate
Pour off the buttermilk and remove the marble. I saved the buttermilk for Potato Soup.
This is truly the best tasting butter I have ever had. HERE is how to make it with a mixer
lol I always accidently make it with a mixer, when I "whip" the cream for too long. problem is that I add sugar to it, and no one wants to eat sugary butter .
Sounds like a fun way to make it :) Looks like the kids were having a blast!
We had a sitter (Inez) when I was young - she would look after me when I had to stay home sick. She made her own butter just as you describe. We would take turns shaking the jar! It was indeed the best butter! She would smear it on homemade bread hot from the oven. Made it hard to want to get well! hehehe!
Paula Deen Y'all. She's jealous I will tell you that.
I would have to borrow some kids to make it that way. When I was in high school, we bought milk from a couple at the edge of town who had a cow. Mom would tell them not to skim off the cream and she would use it to make butter, only she used one of these: LINK
I agree with them; creative, indeed. Thank you for sharing!
When I was little (early and mid-1940's), my mother made all our butter. She bought milk in jars with cream tops -- she'd let the cream rise to the top of the jar, then skim it off with a cream spoon. Using a hand mixer (like the beaters of an electric mixer, but turned by cranking a hand crank), she whipped the cream until it had turned to butter. She then put the butter in several layers of cheesecloth, tied it into a ball, and hung the ball from the refrigerator handle overnight with a bowl under it to catch the buttermilk. It WAS delicious -- the yellow-packet margarine that came out after the war was like pure lard, and I remember begging my mother to go back to real butter!
I needed this when my five boys were all young and bouncing off the walls.
This is a memory straight out of my childhood... haven't done it since then, but haven't forgotten doing it. Perhaps something to suggest for the kids at church.
Are you trying to butter us up?
I love homemade butter! I haven't made it in a long time though
Cool post Beth!
I started cooking really early (made my own salad dressings in kindergarten), and my grandmother would let me make butter on snow days and holidays when I was bored. It's fun!!
I really need to make butter with my kids soon. Thanks for the suggestion. :)
This looks like fun! I can't wait to try it! I bet it's delicious!
Buttery goodness and fun too. Perfect recipe!
Cute family fun. This kinda reminds me of that "Shake Weight.. As Seen On Tv" thingy..
Eee! Looks fun and wonderful. Looks like everyone had a great time. =)
@armnatmom - Haaaaaaaaa, me too when we were doing it!
I should try that at school!
Looks like everyone had a good time and it's so much healthier than the fake stuff.
Great. I remember churning butter with my sisters when we were kids and we ended up wrestling in butter!
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lol I always accidently make it with a mixer, when I "whip" the cream for too long. problem is that I add sugar to it, and no one wants to eat sugary butter
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Sounds like a fun way to make it :) Looks like the kids were having a blast!
Looks like fun
@under_the_carpet - add cinnamon and use it on biscuits!
Very creative and looks delicious!
We had a sitter (Inez) when I was young - she would look after me when I had to stay home sick. She made her own butter just as you describe. We would take turns shaking the jar! It was indeed the best butter! She would smear it on homemade bread hot from the oven. Made it hard to want to get well! hehehe!
Paula Deen Y'all. She's jealous I will tell you that.
I would have to borrow some kids to make it that way. When I was in high school, we bought milk from a couple at the edge of town who had a cow. Mom would tell them not to skim off the cream and she would use it to make butter, only she used one of these: LINK
I agree with them; creative, indeed. Thank you for sharing!
When I was little (early and mid-1940's), my mother made all our butter. She bought milk in jars with cream tops -- she'd let the cream rise to the top of the jar, then skim it off with a cream spoon. Using a hand mixer (like the beaters of an electric mixer, but turned by cranking a hand crank), she whipped the cream until it had turned to butter. She then put the butter in several layers of cheesecloth, tied it into a ball, and hung the ball from the refrigerator handle overnight with a bowl under it to catch the buttermilk. It WAS delicious -- the yellow-packet margarine that came out after the war was like pure lard, and I remember begging my mother to go back to real butter!
I needed this when my five boys were all young and bouncing off the walls.
This is a memory straight out of my childhood... haven't done it since then, but haven't forgotten doing it. Perhaps something to suggest for the kids at church.
Are you trying to butter us up?
I love homemade butter! I haven't made it in a long time though
Cool post Beth!
I started cooking really early (made my own salad dressings in kindergarten), and my grandmother would let me make butter on snow days and holidays when I was bored. It's fun!!
I really need to make butter with my kids soon. Thanks for the suggestion. :)
This looks like fun! I can't wait to try it! I bet it's delicious!
Buttery goodness and fun too. Perfect recipe!
Cute family fun. This kinda reminds me of that "Shake Weight.. As Seen On Tv" thingy..
Eee! Looks fun and wonderful. Looks like everyone had a great time. =)
@armnatmom - Haaaaaaaaa, me too when we were doing it!
I should try that at school!
Looks like everyone had a good time and it's so much healthier than the fake stuff.
Great. I remember churning butter with my sisters when we were kids and we ended up wrestling in butter!