Pour cold heavy whipping cream into the mason jar. Secure the lid and begin shaking. Depending on many factors ultra-pasteurization, marbles, strength , this step may take anywhere from 8 — 15 minutes of continuous shaking.
You should be able to see the beginning of the butter and the buttermilk separating. Add salt, put the lid back on, and keep shaking! Use a strainer to separate the butter from the buttermilk and transfer each to their own container. Hope you have fun making homemade butter! If you make your butter and some fresh biscuits ahead of time, they would be a great complement to a Little House on the Prairie inspired picnic.
Be sure to subscribe to our free Newsletter for the latest family fun activities. I am a retired kindergarten teacher, and I made butter with my students almost every year. I used plastic jars most of the time, because I was fearful that someone would drop and break the glass. I played lively music as they shook, and each child got a chance to shake I had maybe 5 groups of children with children in each.
Sometimes they would sit on the mats and roll it between them. We would enjoy the butter spread on saltines. Sometimes I would get some small plastic containers and send a bit of butter home for the children to share with their families. Little House stories were always a great hit in my classroom, and enjoyed by boys and girls alike. They really enjoyed the primary version, and I would occasionally read a chapter a day from the junior chapter books.
I am so glad i found this website! Yo i made this and it was a like a smoothie tecture, so I kept on shaking it and it turned to Liquid again? Last week we were staying at my in-laws on their farm. Both boys absolutely love their time there and I really do think a farm is a great place for kids to learn and explore. I really want both boys to know where food comes from and last week we had great fun digging and cooking potatoes and then making this butter to serve along with them.
Making butter is a fantastic activity for getting kids in the kitchen and talking to them about where our food comes from but it is also a great science experiment. Cream has a good amount of fat in it. When cream is shaken, the fat molecules move around and join together. After some time, all of the fat molecules clump together, forming butter and leaving buttermilk behind. If you are looking to make larger quantities of butter, or would prefer not to have to do all the muscle work, then you can use a.
Turn on high and the cream will go through the same stages as it does when making it in a jar. It is ready when the cream has separated into buttermilk and butter. Place your butter in an airtight container or wrap it in parchment paper. Store in the refrigerator for up to one week.
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Explore the site for creative ideas, tips, and inspiration! Read more. Receive family friendly recipes, delivered weekly to your inbox, for FREE! What a fun activity for doing it with kids! I love the idea! Great post, Amy! I think most kids love to help in the kitchen if you just give them the chance. We will gladly do the experiment, let the kids taste it, and then — bye bye to the homemade!
One of my aunts used to make butter this way when I was a little girl, about 45 years ago. I remember her shaking and shaking a big glass jar. Not sure but I think she used plain, whole milk for hers. Gonna try this ASAP! Thanks for sharing, and bringing back some sweet memories.
Instead of a marble, you can use an all wood clothespin. Fun to see you kiddos surprised by the buttermaking process. When I was about 3 years old, we lived across the street from a lady who had a cow. Every Wednesday, she churned butter, and I helped. She had a big glass jar-like container, and its lid had paddles that went down into it.
It had a handle, which made the paddles turn. When the butter formed, she washed it and put it into a little wooden bowl. She made a design on the top with a wooden spoon.
Then, to pay me for my work, I got to eat several teaspoons right out of the bowl! Talk about nostalgia!! Churn held about 4 gal of milk and you sat down with the churn between your legs and pumped the paddle up and down until the butter was made. The buttermilk left behind was delicious and had little flakes of butter in it and as Sheri Holmes said the butter was put in a small bowl and a design pressed on top.
I have made butter in my blender and it works just as well but this might be fun to do with kids! As a young kid back in the olden days my Mon would be cooking breakfast and my dad would be shaking a quart jar of cream for fresh butter. We had our own cow and cream was abundant.
This is wonderful memories. The marble idea is genius! We are doing this now, boy is it a lot of work. How long can you expect without marbles in a mason jar?
My arms are sore…. This looks so simple and I think the kids are going to love doing it. I have always wanted to make butter to go with my homemade bread. I remember doing this about 25 years ago using a film canister with just a little cream to make a little lump of butter.
Most of the readily available cream here in Texas contains carrageenan. Will this process still work if I use cream with carrageenan? You could hit Google, and see if you can find an answer there though. I remember doing this as a school experience way back in elementary school during thanksgiving season. My question is, what is the ratio from butter to buttermilk? I told my friend about this and she needed buttermilk for a recipe.
Why is there no mention of buttermilk in the recipe? When you shake the jar, the cream will separate into a liquid and a solid.
The solid is butter, and the liquid is buttermilk. We do this every year at Thanksgiving. The kids love taking turns, it gets passed around until everyone has had a turn shaking it. Older cream, especially room temperature, turns to butter faster. Let the whipping cream come to room temp before shaking and it will make much faster…around 5 minutes! Just the scissors, or knife. We use a plastic knife, or spoon to put the butter on crackers, or bread. When finished, just toss it all — works beautifully!
I never thought about making my own butter before. What a great idea and fun activity for my kids. They will love shaking the jar. Thanks for sharing! Now this looks so easy!!
I made this this morning, what did I do wrong because I did not get butter and I tried the blender, the mixer and my food processor.. If you use the 35 whipping cream or heavy cream , it should turn into butter quickly in a blender or food processor. Can I make a tiny but just to test it out in a baby food jar? Please reply soon. Make as much or as little as you need, Mae!
Wow that was quick!! Also, how does it taste unsalted? My whole family loved this. Its was fun but im a weak tween girl SOOO…. My mom had to shake it but stil amazing. We made it in a large mason jar really quick and split it into halves, one salted and one unsalted, both good. Thanks so much for this recipe!! Ive done this before but this time I added cinnamon and sugar with a few grains of salt….
Wiii be having oatmeal to go with it tomorrow!! It was satisfying to see and feel the buttermilk run out of the blob.
I did this project in kindergarten and wanted to do it again, and now it helps me get my anger out safe. I wanted to know if the cream you used is the same cream that can be collected after boiling milk. A heavy layer that settles on top after it boils and cools down. Reading some of the comments makes me wonder about some people.
I just finished pouring some heavy cream into a mason jar that my 9 year old girl and I shook for 15 minutes. After rinsing the butter we tasted it. Hi Deanna! I leave in Miami Florida and can not find it. Tried many times before but following your steps was able to make butter first time with good taste. Thank you. This was so satisfying to turn my jersey cows cream into butter!
So easy, thank you! Wow this was so cool. It was so simple and taste delish! Thanks for posting. When I was a little girl we lived way out in the country. We had a cow and other assorted farm animals and my grandma would make butter out of the cream from the cow.
I can still see her hands as she washed the butter to get the buttermilk out. Eventually you get homemade butter! Pasta can be made from flour and eggs. Bread takes a few simple ingredients such as flour, yeast, and water. Yogurt can be made easily in your crockpot. The […]. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.
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