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A year or so ago, when my favorite namesake Slashfoodie Sarah Gilbert was still blogging with us, she posted about making butter at home with her kids. Neat!
Since I can't find that post, I am pointing to a post from a site called Positron that 1) has a lot of information about butter and 2) gives you a step-by-step instructional with photos at every step on how to make homemade organic cultured butter. They use a butter churn, but I don't know a lot of people who just have butter churns lying around their kitchens, so Positron says you can just shake or roll the container.
Thanks, Holly!
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7-14-2007 @2:43PM Pille said... The Traveler's Lunchbox recently had a fascinating post on making cultured butter (see http://www.travelerslunchbox.com/journal/2007/6/21/getting-some-culture.html) - definitely worth checking out, too!
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7-14-2007 @3:52PM A New York Web Designer said... Not sure why anyone would want to do this. Looks very cumbersome.
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7-14-2007 @3:53PM Cosmonaut Creative Media said... I agree. It could be fun to apply some unique flavors.
http://www.gocosmonaut.com/
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7-14-2007 @8:44PM AS said... FWIW, when I was in Girl Scouts, we made butter once and used jars of baby food to shake the butter in. It was slightly less work than pulling taffy.
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7-15-2007 @9:19AM QSMama / Lea said... The NYT Magazine had a great article by a chef who discovered his friend was making butter in her kitchen and convinced her to share her method. Sorry, I didn't save the link, but the title is "Curd Mentality," by Daniel Patterson.
The woman uses her countertop blender, and her method takes just about 20 minutes. No manual labor necessary.
Good butter is so expensive, and you don't always get to use it all before it's not so fresh. I'm planning on trying to make some soon.
- QSMama / Lea
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7-15-2007 @11:52AM bdw said... Dynamite link. The Gorilla Snot article was fun, but this is the kind of thing that keeps me coming back.
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7-15-2007 @12:08PM charles said... Lea - Cooking for Engineers gives a similar stand-mixer approach to making butter (http://www.cookingforengineers.com/article/113/Making-Butter).
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10-05-2007 @11:25AM mpalmer said... I recently started making my own butter at home. In my area with the price of cream it's not any cheaper than buying butter, and, of course, it's more work. So right now I buy butter for cooking and baking, and make butter for "raw uses" such as on bread at dinner, etc. I'm still working on my technique, but it's a lot of fun. I can't wait to debut it at my annual Christmas brunch this season.
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