Anyone make actual butter anymore?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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We buy unsalted butter from Sam’s Club. I’ll get Kerrygold for a party if we want something rich
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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
So peanut oil is better then veggie ? Bet
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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 Only reason I take cholesterol medicine is because I have two stints in my carotid artery when they found a flap of skin that looked like seaweed in a river flapping back and forth. 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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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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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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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. Zim
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![[Linked Image]](https://trapperman.com/forum/attachments/usergals/2022/12/full-27826-159619-kimg0123.jpg) 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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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. 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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Thats a cool video. my first thought, has anyone cold smoked their butter?
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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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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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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  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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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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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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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. ![[Linked Image]](http://i.imgur.com/8fOM3kAm.jpg) What it looked like after I took it out of the mixing bowl. ![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/FOW9LZam.jpg) 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. ![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/XkKOlmUm.jpg)
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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. ![[Linked Image]](http://i.imgur.com/8fOM3kAm.jpg) What it looked like after I took it out of the mixing bowl. ![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/FOW9LZam.jpg) 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. ![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/XkKOlmUm.jpg) 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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