Making Butter
Posted on April 4th, 2006 By ljrobinson at 8:08 am (All, Pots and Pans)
A while back I was in an antique store with my friend, Cammie and we saw an old electric butter churn. I pointed it out and she teased me that I was going overboard if I was thinking about making my own butter. I denied that I would ever consider such a thing, but it had indeed planted a seed.
It was really the easiest thing in the world. Why doesn’t everyone make their own butter? I simply put the heavy whipping cream in my Kitchenaid® stand mixer, turned it on low with the paddle attachment and walk away until I heard the butter sloshing around in the bowl (it’s a scientific wonder how suddenly the butter forms). I found instructions for “washing” the butter at the website of Muller’s Lane Farm and just cobbled those together with my modern churning technique and, voila! We had the tastiest butter ever.
Oh, and a couple of days later, my friend who teased me about going overboard was also making butter in her Kitchenaid® stand mixer.
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December 24, 2006 at 9:39 am
[...] Ahhh, to own a farm in Orwell, Vermont. The decision regarding what to call one’s farm becomes so straight forward. Scott sent me this link to a blog about Diane St. Clair’s Animal Farm and her butter making business. According to the blogger, all one needs is a cool name and a good story to be able to sell butter for $75 a pound, delivered. To those of you who question butter being worth $75 a pound or even Diane’s more customary charge of $15 a pound just buy yourself some cream and start shaking (or break out your Kitchenaid® like I do). [...]