Guest Posted January 17, 2009 Posted January 17, 2009 We are in the middle of 'How can I help you?' topic over view and we've arrived at cows and milking !! We got onto milk products and particularly butter as i had a tub in my shopping bag I fancy making some with the children and have been googling as I know you can make it with a jar and cream. I'm now upto speed and we are going to practise at home tomorrow with the handwhisk method. I wondered if anyone had tried this in setting?
Cait Posted January 17, 2009 Posted January 17, 2009 OOh i've done it lots of times - you need a lot of patience. I've always used the jamjar as it can get passed about. Remember that you don't get much from your full cream milk! Oh and you might like to sprinkle a bit of salt in - otherwise it doesn't taste like they expect it to
Shiny Posted January 17, 2009 Posted January 17, 2009 Good luck biccy!! Hope your day is utterly buttery!!
catma Posted January 18, 2009 Posted January 18, 2009 I vaguely recall sticking a butter making recipe on here sometime in the past ......could just be old age creating false memories though! Cx
catma Posted January 18, 2009 Posted January 18, 2009 Hurrah, memory fine!! Look here!! Though you might add a little salt when shaking. I'm not sure which works best. Cx
Guest Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 WOW!!! Making butter was great success. We used a large bowl, an electric hand whisk and one large tub of double cream (£1:68).Lots of interest from the children.We paused every 30 seconds, runny cream got thicker, formed peeks, started to separate "it looks like scrambled egg" and then ....a split second and LARGE lump of butter in milky liquid. The children washed it until the water was clear (stops it going rancid quickly) and then we had bread and butter while we had a story the children DEMANDED more. We buttered a full loaf and still had enough for 3 of us to take a pot home to impress our families What I have learnt 1.Making butter is easy and I will do it again with the children 2.I will never buy butter in the supermarket again its expensive 3.I will watch for reduced cream in the supermarket to make butter with and then freeze portions (homemade keeps for 3 months) 4. I will avoid cream from now on.!!! :wacko: The amount of pure fat in one small pot of cream . A great diet tip to make this and see how much fat is in cream and other milk products
Cait Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 How fantastic - I'm so pleased! The children will never look at it the same way again either!
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