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Anyone make actual butter anymore? #7734767
12/04/22 09:15 PM
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Decided to try and cook more with actual fats like butter and lard for a while to see if it helps me in any way and as I'm looking at the butter section in Walmart just about everything says 30-50% vegetable oil butter spread.... Like does anyone make 100% butter anymore or ???


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Re: Anyone make actual butter anymore? [Re: Wolfdog91] #7734809
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Haven't made butter in 45(?) years. My grandfather had a dairy farm and when we were kids we got fresh milk right out of the milk tank. My mom would skim off the cream and put it in an antique glass churn with a hand crank. I don't recall if anything else was added, maybe salt. Been a long time.

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Danish Creamery Salted
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Re: Anyone make actual butter anymore? [Re: Wolfdog91] #7734822
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several options for real butter here

we actually still have a anti margarine law but no store pays attention to it

it is Illegal in WI to sell colored Oleo aka margarine

at walmart there will typically be about 200 sq feet of space given to Margarine with 50+ useless to me products and about 3 square feet to actual butter where there will be 2-3 options

I only use butter , lard , peanut and olive oil


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When I was a kid there was a dairy right down the road. The cows were Guernseys not Holsteins. They were fed corn silage and hay. They don't have near the amount of milk that holsteins have but twice the cream. We would skim cream off and put it in a quart jar. Just shake it to make butter. The cream that didnt turn to butter is butter milk. Tastes nothing like what they sell in grocery stores. Best biscuits and pancakes are made with that stuff.

They put olive oil or whatever in commercial butter to make it spread better for people to lazy to warm it up a bit.

you can buy 100% butter here in any grocery store. it tastes fine to me


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Re: Anyone make actual butter anymore? [Re: Wolfdog91] #7734854
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Land o Lakes is pretty good. I like to use it more for spreads. Cooking butters Ill use about anything. Usually the unsalted variety or you can run into some oversalting in some recipes.

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Every store I've been in down here sells butter. It looks like this.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Sweet-Cream-Salted-Butter-16-oz/132893363?athbdg=L1600


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Re: Anyone make actual butter anymore? [Re: Wolfdog91] #7734857
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I would if I could use the total output of a milk cow and calf.

We use butter for almost all of our cooking but a gallon of milk lasts a good while unless the grands are here. And I'm not about to learn cheese making.

The calf wouldn't be an issue though as we do eat beef.

That and I ain't got the land to feed a cow/calf.


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Re: Anyone make actual butter anymore? [Re: danny clifton] #7734862
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Originally Posted by danny clifton
When I was a kid there was a dairy right down the road. The cows were Guernseys not Holsteins. They were fed corn silage and hay. They don't have near the amount of milk that holsteins have but twice the cream. We would skim cream off and put it in a quart jar. Just shake it to make butter. The cream that didnt turn to butter is butter milk. Tastes nothing like what they sell in grocery stores. Best biscuits and pancakes are made with that stuff.

They put olive oil or whatever in commercial butter to make it spread better for people to lazy to warm it up a bit.

you can buy 100% butter here in any grocery store. it tastes fine to me

Same here , think jerseys milk has more cream , not sure been years since I got good Guensey milk.
I get holstien milk when I can from certain small farmers.


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Re: Anyone make actual butter anymore? [Re: Brian Mongeau] #7734863
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Originally Posted by Brian Mongeau
Haven't made butter in 45(?) years. My grandfather had a dairy farm and when we were kids we got fresh milk right out of the milk tank. My mom would skim off the cream and put it in an antique glass churn with a hand crank. I don't recall if anything else was added, maybe salt. Been a long time.

Salt is sometimes added to help it clump up.
But it isn't nessary.


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Re: Anyone make actual butter anymore? [Re: Ohio Wolverine] #7734883
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We are fortunate in WI there is butter availble in all the stores we shop at.
When a kid with the one cow (Holstein) We drank a lot of milk with 6 kids. We would skim off the cream and store until we had a 2 quart jar about 3/4 full or a bit more. We would then take turns turning and shaking while listening to the radio etc. We then had butter and butter milk for pancakes and waffles too! We did not add any salt or coloring. We just used it as butter fat. We use a lot of lard too when we butchered the hogs.Made a lot of doughnuts with lard.

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Re: Anyone make actual butter anymore? [Re: yotetrapper30] #7734890
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Originally Posted by yotetrapper30
Every store I've been in down here sells butter. It looks like this.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Sweet-Cream-Salted-Butter-16-oz/132893363?athbdg=L1600


That's the butter we buy. We mostly cook with lard. We both just had our cholesterol checked and we both had low cholesterol.

Keith

Re: Anyone make actual butter anymore? [Re: Wolfdog91] #7734892
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Last time was 30 years ago when we had a dairy. Today it's a lot less work to drive 0.5 miles to the store and buy in bulk when it's on sale.

And I can remember as a kid my parents driving the family from Milwaukee to the Wisconsin/Illinois border to buy a couple of cases of margarine.


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Re: Anyone make actual butter anymore? [Re: Ohio Wolverine] #7734893
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Originally Posted by Ohio Wolverine
Originally Posted by danny clifton
When I was a kid there was a dairy right down the road. The cows were Guernseys not Holsteins. They were fed corn silage and hay. They don't have near the amount of milk that holsteins have but twice the cream. We would skim cream off and put it in a quart jar. Just shake it to make butter. The cream that didnt turn to butter is butter milk. Tastes nothing like what they sell in grocery stores. Best biscuits and pancakes are made with that stuff.

They put olive oil or whatever in commercial butter to make it spread better for people to lazy to warm it up a bit.

you can buy 100% butter here in any grocery store. it tastes fine to me

Same here , think jerseys milk has more cream , not sure been years since I got good Guensey milk.
I get holstien milk when I can from certain small farmers.


I'm kind of partial to Brown Swiss as dad had one when I was a kid. Can't recall the butterfat content but I do know that the best milk comes straight from the tap. And I liked her fuzzy ears.

Some young doc somewhere would have a conniption fit over that today.


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Margerine is vegetable oil and you dont want to eat that stuff. Makes your joints ache, its poison for humans. In fact if you put it on the ground nothing will eat it.
Sadly it is added to much of the commercial foods made nowadays, peanut butter is full of it as are most other foods.

For cooking eggs, I use butter/, olive oil, for deep fry oil, I use lard, I rendered my moose fat this year and, its real good. Beef tallow is good, I also save bacon grease and use that.

Bear would be good too.

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Make your own.Its easy.


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Brown Swiss have a high butter fat/cream % can't remember how much , but some holstien dairy farmers added a few to their herd to up the fat content or cream whatever you want to call it.


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Originally Posted by upstateNY
Make your own.Its easy.

I'm looking into it


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The best butter in the Midwest is made by 3 people, 3 miles from my house. The Hope Creamery, in Hope,MN. It is noticeably better than standard butters.

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We buy unsalted butter from Sam’s Club. I’ll get Kerrygold for a party if we want something rich


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Originally Posted by GREENCOUNTYPETE
several options for real butter here

we actually still have a anti margarine law but no store pays attention to it

it is Illegal in WI to sell colored Oleo aka margarine

at walmart there will typically be about 200 sq feet of space given to Margarine with 50+ useless to me products and about 3 square feet to actual butter where there will be 2-3 options

I only use butter , lard , peanut and olive oil


So peanut oil is better then veggie ? Bet


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Originally Posted by KeithC
Originally Posted by yotetrapper30
Every store I've been in down here sells butter. It looks like this.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Sweet-Cream-Salted-Butter-16-oz/132893363?athbdg=L1600


That's the butter we buy. We mostly cook with lard. We both just had our cholesterol checked and we both had low cholesterol.

Keith

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Had headaches for a couple years , and they couldn't find any reason , until I told the nurse to check my right arm , as they always checked my left arm.
Felt strange like a fever and pressure in my head, so had her check it.
50 points difference between arms.
Ultra sound found it then , I saw it on the screen.
When to have stints put in , and watched the whole thing.
They went in through my left arm.
My cholesterol has always been low , and still is , but because of the stints , he said I need it.
I tasted margine one time and never ate it again.
Real butter or nothing.
I can make it but getting lazy , but it once a year when it's on sale , usually 12 pounds at a time, never froze it , but you can.
Just keep in in the refrigerator.
I buy it at the Amish store .


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Donovan, if you want good butter buy Kerygold, it's expensive but you are a single guy

LandoLakes makes good butter, also not cheap. Any dairies around? If so get some cream and make your own. It's easy and delicious. Also make your own lard from pig fat. Tough to beat and very simple to make

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Just make a road trip to Wisconsin and you will solve your problem.

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Originally Posted by Wolfdog91
Originally Posted by GREENCOUNTYPETE
several options for real butter here

we actually still have a anti margarine law but no store pays attention to it

it is Illegal in WI to sell colored Oleo aka margarine

at walmart there will typically be about 200 sq feet of space given to Margarine with 50+ useless to me products and about 3 square feet to actual butter where there will be 2-3 options

I only use butter , lard , peanut and olive oil


So peanut oil is better then veggie ? Bet


Yes, but not that much better. its full of omega 6 that also causes joint pain and inflammation and not really digestible like animal fats are.

We get Darigold butter in the store here, it has two ingredients, salt and cream. Good stuff.

I remember we used to get butter in can to bring on to the trapline cabin. cant remember the name, had canned bacon then too.

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Do people actually still use margarine on bread? Yuck.

I remember back about 1970 when we didn't know any better and used margarine that came in those little round tubs; my mom would save those tubs for various uses.

My mom was out of town for about a week once, there was a margarine tub in the fridge and we were using the spread on our toast and other stuff. My mom got home a week later, she opened the margarine tub for some reason and said; "what happened to all my chicken fat"? It had tasted close enough to margarine for us.

The only thing I use vegetable oils for now is deep frying; maybe six times a year. There are usually many better ways to cook food than deep frying, it just takes a little more work. Otherwise, just butter and olive oil.


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It’s easy Wolfie. In its simplest form. Get a qt mason jar and a pint of cream. Let it come to room temp ( makes it happen much faster). Add a little salt if desired. Start shaking. When it separates into butter, stop shaking. Pour off buttermilk for other uses. Wash butter in cold water. Keep washing until all buttermilk is removed. Kneed it by hand under the cold running water. Then let it drain and put it in a storage container, bowl etc. no refrigeration needed if used in a reasonable amount of time. Month or so. Otherwise refrigerate if it makes you feel better. It will get hard.

If you want to do it more frequently invest in a churn. Places like Lehman’s have them in various sizes. They will also have water bath storage crocks and butter molds.

If you want cultured butter and buttermilk let the cream sit at room temp for a few day to a week then do the same process. The buttermilk will be bitter and taste more like the buttermilk from the store. It is cultured.

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We also just get the store brand butter normally from kroger or publix. Both have no added ingredients. We have made/are making the switch away from vegetable oils also. I made two quarts of lard the other day. Trying to talk my wife into us just raising a couple pigs so we dont have to buy pork anymore

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Originally Posted by Wolfdog91
Originally Posted by GREENCOUNTYPETE
several options for real butter here

we actually still have a anti margarine law but no store pays attention to it

it is Illegal in WI to sell colored Oleo aka margarine

at walmart there will typically be about 200 sq feet of space given to Margarine with 50+ useless to me products and about 3 square feet to actual butter where there will be 2-3 options

I only use butter , lard , peanut and olive oil


So peanut oil is better then veggie ? Bet


I only use the peanut when I am frying and that isn't very often any more not because it is the healthiest but just because it works very well for crispy fried stuff.
If I am going to use one I might as well also get good results.

there is also a difference in vegetable oil and the vegetable oil in the "spreads" what is in the spreads is hydroginated to make it a solid at room temp


I mostly use butter, Olive Oil daily.


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Wolf the real stuff comes in 1 lb box with 4 sticks per box. The stuff un tubs is fake


You can shake cream in in a jar and make your own. But if you have a rocking chair you can attach the jar to the bottom of it and sit and rock and shake it that way. But once you marry that woman and the kids get about 4 and up thay will like taking a short turn at shaking it.

Once you get used to making your own you can experiment and make things like strawberry butter.

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Just make a road trip to Wisconsin and you will solve your problem.


Yea, it sure will. I live a few miles outside of Reedsburg, WI which hails itself as the "Butter Capitol of the World". Every small town
has to have a claim to fame it seems. Through the 60's and 80's the facility there produced more butter than any other in the nation.
Every town in south central Wisconsin had a creamery and many still do. There are old butter facilities still standing but in ruins
out in rural areas here that farmers would haul their milk to by horse and wagon, rather than take it to town.

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This is what we use, only 2 ingredients cream and salt. My wife works at the plant where they make it. It is sold under at least a dozen brand names but this is their brand. This butter has won lots of awards for it's quality and taste.

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This is what we use, only 2 ingredients cream and salt. My wife works at the plant where they make it. It is sold under at least a dozen brand names but this is their brand. This butter has won lots of awards for it's quality and taste.

Good butter.As good or better than Land-O-Lakes.


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What ZionHertitage said!! I make it this way all the time. The only difference is I wash mine in a bowl and work the cold water through it with a big spoon, then salt to taste after washing. The butter will be tastless before you add salt, after you add the salt it will have the butter taste. Sprinkle salt a little at a time and mix until you get the taste you want. Now is the time to add other ingredients if you like. I like honey in mine but any kind of herbs for compound butter will work. What Zionheritage said, make sure it gets to room temperature first. When you shake the jar it will look like whipped cream, keep shaking until it "breaks" and turns from cream to watery buttermilk, you see the chunk of butter after that. Good luck

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I keep a couple old Jersey cows around with the herd for butter and cheese and if I have a orphan calf I'll put them to her. There two calves are also my family's beef for the year.

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Jerseys have the highest BF percentage of all the common dairy breeds and the highest total solids per CWT, Guernseys are 2nd, Swiss and Ayrsires are about the same in 3rd and the Holsteins are the lowest.
Holsteins still produce the most total solids on average per lactation as they produce the most milk.
The industry switched to a component and solids pricing system a couple decades ago and the Holsteins have increased their component averages a lot with genetics and rations.
Putting a calf on a Jersey with that high energy milk will really make them grow well.

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They don't happen to have little butter making machines you can just add ingredients to and make butter do they ?


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Originally Posted by Wolfdog91
They don't happen to have little butter making machines you can just add ingredients to and make butter do they ?


Of course they do. It's called a churn.

Originally Posted by ZionHeritageFarm
It’s easy Wolfie. In its simplest form. Get a qt mason jar and a pint of cream. Let it come to room temp ( makes it happen much faster). Add a little salt if desired. Start shaking. When it separates into butter, stop shaking. Pour off buttermilk for other uses. Wash butter in cold water. Keep washing until all buttermilk is removed. Kneed it by hand under the cold running water. Then let it drain and put it in a storage container, bowl etc. no refrigeration needed if used in a reasonable amount of time. Month or so. Otherwise refrigerate if it makes you feel better. It will get hard.

If you want to do it more frequently invest in a churn. Places like Lehman’s have them in various sizes. They will also have water bath storage crocks and butter molds.

If you want cultured butter and buttermilk let the cream sit at room temp for a few day to a week then do the same process. The buttermilk will be bitter and taste more like the buttermilk from the store. It is cultured.


I've made it in my kitchen aid mixer as well, or like the above post order one from a place like Lehman's or I'm sure amazon.


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Using a stand mixer



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Wolf put in in a jar and tape to the rocking chair and rock. Or shake it but rocking is easier.

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Originally Posted by Providence Farm
Wolf put in in a jar and tape to the rocking chair and rock. Or shake it but rocking is easier.


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Thats a cool video. my first thought, has anyone cold smoked their butter?


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Real butter is fairly expensive. I still use it though.


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Flies will eat crap, but they won't touch margarine. That should tell you everything you need to know about margarine. Margarine is one hydrogen bond away from being plastic. It's some of the worst stuff you can put in your body. I went to culinary school for desserts and pastries, used thousands of pounds of butter over the years, margarine isn't allowed in a commercial kitchen that actually cares about its products.


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Originally Posted by sneaky
Flies will eat crap, but they won't touch margarine. That should tell you everything you need to know about margarine. Margarine is one hydrogen bond away from being plastic. It's some of the worst stuff you can put in your body. I went to culinary school for desserts and pastries, used thousands of pounds of butter over the years, margarine isn't allowed in a commercial kitchen that actually cares about its products.

Well said, sir.


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Originally Posted by Wolfdog91
Originally Posted by Providence Farm
Wolf put in in a jar and tape to the rocking chair and rock. Or shake it but rocking is easier.


..... What about my brass tumblers grin

I used a food processor years ago , a blender may work as long as you use a low speed .
I used to get fresh milk all the time , it's not easy to get around here any more.
Some Amish might sell it to you, but noticed they seem to be going more with goats now.
I never washed mine , just pressed out the buttermilk , worked it til it didn't have any milk left.
If I do it again , I'll try washing it , looks a lot faster and easier.
You get real fresh cows milk , leave it sit over night , everything on top is cream, you can see the line between the cream and milk..
Take most of the cream for butter , leave some to make the milk taste better.
Just shake it to get it mixed back in.


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Originally Posted by Wolfdog91
Originally Posted by Providence Farm
Wolf put in in a jar and tape to the rocking chair and rock. Or shake it but rocking is easier.


..... What about my brass tumblers grin



So to young yet to own a rocking chair and enjoy it. You will probably buy one once your first child is born. At least I recommend one be on the list anyway. wink

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Find an Italian and strap the jar to their hand. Then have a conversation with them. You'll have butter in no time!


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I hit the report button accidentally. It's a great thread so far.


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When I was a kid and family went to visit my aunt and uncle's or to cousin farm. I recall us kids taking turns shaking a mason jar butter milk on the trip home. We would shake that jar and by time we got home from that 30-40 mile trip. There was maybe a tennis ball size chunk butter in the jar. That was probably 50 years or more ago?
My only experience making butter other than doing the same in grade school. In grade school we walked up the road couple 100 yards to small dairy. We came back from that dairy with a mason jar that got passed around the classroom to be shaken. When the ball of butter was finally made. We all got a taste smeared on a cracker. I'm guessing something like that could never happen in a public school now days. I don't recall any of us kids getting sick from that.
Wife and I still use butter just buy it from store. WI is dairy state so plenty of options here.

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We ONLY cook in olive or avocado oil, butter, ghee, tallow or lard.... period.

Start doing some research for yourselves on seed and vegetable oils, you will rethink using them.

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Thanks ksp ill look into it.


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My wife makes our own, she also makes cheese too!

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Using a stand mixer


Same way I make mine.But I knead salt into it after.Half tea spoon per lb. of butter.Some folks like more salt.Adjust to your own taste.

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Wolfie, I got around to making some butter today. My pictures suck. I basically do exactly what the guy does in the video.

Starting it out in the kitchen aid.
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What it looked like after I took it out of the mixing bowl.

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Finished product. Yum yum. Quart and a half of cream gave me shy of 1.25 pounds of butter and another approximately 1.5 cups of buttermilk. We will be using the buttermilk for making waffles tomorrow.
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Made some a couple days ago after watching the video.

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Originally Posted by Steven 49er
Wolfie, I got around to making some butter today. My pictures suck. I basically do exactly what the guy does in the video.

Starting it out in the kitchen aid.
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What it looked like after I took it out of the mixing bowl.

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Finished product. Yum yum. Quart and a half of cream gave me shy of 1.25 pounds of butter and another approximately 1.5 cups of buttermilk. We will be using the buttermilk for making waffles tomorrow.
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Thanks again! Actually went out the day you posted that looking but couldn't find any heavy cream ! And I keep forgetting everytime I go to Walmart


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