I've made my own butter before. It really is very simple, but it's much easier and less time consuming to make it with an electric mixer than in a jar, like I did.

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Making butter can be a fun project for the kids, especially at holiday times. The recipe provided is a pretty good one altho we used whipping cream. The real secrect is: Use a large, squeaky clean plastic jar...(a peanut butter jar is perfect) Insert 3 glass marbles and pour on the cream. Seal tightly and take turns shaking. Add alittle salt and serve...

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Making butter is so much fun and it is very easy to do. To make a smaller portion all you need is a small glass baby food jar. I also use whipping cream because the taste is much better. Pour the cream in a little less than half of the jar and then you need to add salt to insure that it tastes good. Then shake but it doesn't take anywhere near a half hour because of the smaller portions. This is a great thing to do with children because then they can eat the final product.

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Not long ago in a tool company catalog I saw a home version of a paint mixer. Similar to the paint mixer of a paint dept. in a store. I seem to recall that it was about $70.00. Kind of expensive for making homemade butter but then it can do the double duty of mixing paints at home also which certainly beats stirring paint with a stick. And you could make butter too.

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we used to make butter all the time when I was a kid and we had a 196-acre dairy farm and 50+ head of Jersey cattle. We used one of those "paint-mixer" types that screwed onto a large jar. Jersey cows give milk with one of the highest butterfat content so we had PLENTY of cream to make the butter. I don't think we ever bought butter while we lived on the farm (2 years). Fun time.

Brian
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I used to make butter in a jar as a child -- we'd fill a jam jar with fresh milk (we had a cow) and a friend and I would roll it back and forth on the floor as we talked. Kids have alot of energy. :-)

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Is double cream the same thing as heavy whipping cream?

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I have the same question as #7 Tor Bjornrud---"what is double cream and where do you get it?

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I think you will find it is known as heavy cream in the US.

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i also make it using heavy cream and a little salt, but i use an electric mixer , much less work and it tastes great.

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We made butter as a child. My father took the paddle from an old fashioned hand cranked churn and welded it to a shaft that fit into the electric drill. That thru the lid of the original churn made quick work of churning up a batch of butter.

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This IS a good kids' activity and the butter is delicious and creamy. Plus, you control the salt content! I made it in large sized clean plastic peanut butter jars. However, watch out. Some kids will get tired of shaking the jar so long and you will end up doing it. After this activity with a science class, I ended up shaking for 3 kids and wound up with tennis elbow (and had to wear an arm brace for 5 months). Tip: let kids take turns shaking in groups of 3.

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We had a cow when I was a kid. We would skim the cream off and put it in a gallon jug and seal it tightly. Then we would sit in a rocking chair and roll it back and forth on our lap until the butter formed.

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We made butter all the time in Girl Scouts in jars. I think they had us doing it to shut us up for a while.

When I ran Cub Scout camp, we made it it plastic jars because, believe me, little boys throw EVERYTHING. So we started taping the lids with clear mailing tape before handing it to the kids. The tossing it from boy to boy actually made the time go faster.

We had them eat their creation on crackers. They acted like it was ice cream, they loved it so much

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As a child growing up, one of my punishments was to make butter. Cream was put in a gallon container and placed between the rungs of a rocking chair. I had to sit and rock until there was butter..... It took quite a while as I remembered...

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In relation to the Butter recipe...
I saw where after making the butter, the liquid BUTTERMILK left in the container was drained off into a cup. I have made butter for years with a blender and heavy whipping cream and I can't figure out how to use the BUTTERMILK drain off to produce authentic BUTTERMILK as we all know it. I understand that a live culture needs to be used but I have no idea where or how to use it. Is there a recipe to make real BUTTERMILK at home?

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Actually, "double cream" is British term for a very heavy cream...I dont think available in the US...but heavy cream should work just as well for butter,and not too fresh, the older cream works better.....when making butter from "farm fresh cream" you usually wait a few days to allow it it age...for improved taste....and you will need to add salt for taste as well. Have fun.

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a regular blender will make butter much quicker and easier than shaking the cream in a jar. it takes less than 10 minutes.

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I was making whipped cream once for mother when I was a child and I whipped it a little too long and it turned to butter. We added a little salt and ate it on toast and it was delicious. What is double cream?

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Double cream is an English term, 48% fat. Heavy cream is 36-40% fat. You probably can't find double cream in your grocery store, so I don't know why they aren't giving us American ingredients in this recipe.

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