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Or rather NOT making butter :( Has anybody made butter from the recipe in The Home Farmer? I have been shaking and shaking for half an hour, it has turned into a very very thick cream which is too heavy to move by shaking it :evil: Do you think this is because I am using a l litre milk carton and not a 2 litre? I don't have a 2 litre one :(

 

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I have made butter but never using the shaking method........I have always made it in a large bowl with an electric whisk.

 

Could you cut the top off the milk carton and get the thick cream out and finish it off with a whisk, it turns out the same the butter milk seperates and then just squeeze the lump of butter to get all the remaining liquid out shape it wrap it in grease proof paper and put it in the fridge. It seems a shame to waste it, and the butter milk makes lovely scones.

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Hi there, I'cve just made my second lot cos Sainsburys had three 600ml cartons of full cream reduced so I bagged the lot! Now I have a great big bowl of it in the fridge! :lol: But I cheated, I did the whole lot in the processor - just whisked it until it suddenly turned, all the buttermilk poured out, squeezed it, rinsed it, added a little salt and Bobs your Auntys brother. My children LOVE it dunk breadsticks into it, and there's NOTHING in it except cream and salt. So there's a healthy snack, heart attack anyone? :lol:

 

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Or rather NOT making butter :( Has anybody made butter from the recipe in The Home Farmer? I have been shaking and shaking for half an hour, it has turned into a very very thick cream which is too heavy to move by shaking it :evil: Do you think this is because I am using a l litre milk carton and not a 2 litre? I don't have a 2 litre one :(

 

Tessa

 

 

can i have the recipe and method please???

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can i have the recipe and method please???

 

Put 500ml of double cream in a 2ltr washed out plastic milk bottle, then shake it as hard as you can (took me half an hour :shock:) it goes really

thick and difficult to shake, then suddenly it seperates and you have butter and buttermilk :D Pour out the butter milk then cut off the top of the container and put the butter in a colander and under very gently flowing cold water chop it with a knife to get rid of all the butter millk. And you have made butter :) If you want salted butter add a little salt and chop and rinse it again. It is very nice btw.

 

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how much butter do you get? 500ml of dble cream is roughly £1 and 250g of country life butter is 93p so I'm just wondering if this is cost effective or did you just do it for fun :D

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how much butter do you get? 500ml of dble cream is roughly £1 and 250g of country life butter is 93p so I'm just wondering if this is cost effective or did you just do it for fun :D

 

It's certainly not cost effective Poet. I just did it to see if I could :shock: It has pros and cons for me. The pros are that I don't like salted butter and it is sometimes difficult to buy this, so making my own is great. The cons are that it has to be kept in the fridge so is impossible to spread and it has a very short shelf life so has to be used up quickly. I think everybody should try it just once, it is sort of magical when the cream turns to butter :)

 

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I've got a beautiful old "Blow butter churn" which makes fabulous butter with a lot of handle cranking. I don't make butter as regularly as I used to due to lack of time these days but I can never resist a reduced price carton of cream when we're shopping to turn into butter :D .

 

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how much butter do you get? 500ml of dble cream is roughly £1 and 250g of country life butter is 93p so I'm just wondering if this is cost effective or did you just do it for fun :D

 

It's certainly not cost effective Poet. I just did it to see if I could :shock: It has pros and cons for me. The pros are that I don't like salted butter and it is sometimes difficult to buy this, so making my own is great. The cons are that it has to be kept in the fridge so is impossible to spread and it has a very short shelf life so has to be used up quickly. I think everybody should try it just once, it is sort of magical when the cream turns to butter :)

 

Tessa

 

i was just wondering if it would be cheaper than buying butter as if it was, I was going to do it. I might try it once for fun ;)

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that looks great Kate, how much does that pat of butter weigh and how much cream did you have to use to get that much?

 

can you do an instructional video, you know like they do on video jug? ;)

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that looks great Kate, how much does that pat of butter weigh and how much cream did you have to use to get that much?

 

can you do an instructional video, you know like they do on video jug? ;)

 

:lol::lol::lol: Next time I get some cheap cream, I'll get one of the boys to do the churn cranking while I film it :lol: .

 

I'm not sure how much the butter pat weighed but that is a soup dish that it's sitting in so it's slightly longer than the blocks of butter that you'd buy in the supermarket and the tub of cream was one of the large ones. Sorry I'm a bit vague :oops::oops: . I used to make the butter using an electric hand mixer or the Kenwood but the Blow butter churn doesn't make any mess like they do as the buttermilk comes.

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