How To Make Your Own Butter With a Mixer
- January 7, 2009
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Writer
Kathryn_Kellinger
Music
The Way It Is
Voice Over Artist
Darcie Champagne
Why make something that you’ve been buying your whole life? Well, it’s fresh, folksy, and environmentally-friendly.
You Will Need
- 6 c. organic heavy cream, preferably unpasteurized
- A stand mixer with a whisk attachment
- A kitchen towel or plastic wrap
- A large mesh strainer
- A bowl
- Clean hands
- Parchment paper or a butter bowl
- A refrigerator
- 1 tsp. salt
- Excellent bread, fresh or toasted
Step 1: Mix cream
Pour the cream into the bowl of the mixer. Start on a low speed and cover the top of the bowl with the towel or plastic wrap.
Step 2: Increase to high speed
Gradually increase to a high speed. The cream will start to look fluffy, like whipped cream. Then it will turn from white to pale yellow and begin to separate.
Step 3: Stop mixer
After about 7 minutes, the cream will start getting chunky and begin to give off its liquid, which will splash in the bowl. Stop the mixer.
Step 4: Strain cream
Pour the contents of the mixing bowl into a strainer set over a bowl.
The liquid that drains through is actual buttermilk. Use it for pancakes or ranch dressing.
Step 5: Extract liquid
With clean hands, press on the butter in the strainer, extracting whatever liquid remains. Let it drain.
If you prefer salted butter, add a teaspoon of salt to the butter and blend it by hand.
Step 6: Roll butter into log & chill
Remove the butter from the strainer. Roll it into a log and wrap it with parchment paper, or press it into a pottery bowl. Chill.
Step 7: Spread on bread
For an immediate treat, spread the butter on the most delicious bread you can find—and enjoy its fresh taste and an I-did-it-myself satisfaction.
Butter is simply whipped cream that’s been whipped for too long—you may have made it by accident before.
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Comments (2)
I'm definitely going to try this!
over 3 years ago by HeatherM
coool ... thanx
over 3 years ago by Hawajes
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