I have just made butter...

[CurlewKate]

...and yesterday I made vanilla extract. I have never felt more like a parody of myself.

What was your method for making butter?

I thought you were going g to say yiu over whipped some cream ...

It's incredibly satisfying, isn't it? When the little grains suddenly start to appear, and then it all comes together suddenly. PITA trying to get all the little bubbles of whey/whatever it is out, though.

How do you make vanilla extract? I once made butter in the food processor using marked-down cream from Tesco and went around boring everyone to tears about it for weeks

Oh you absolute wanker! At least you didn’t post a picture on SM. Did you?

I posted a yoga selfie on Instagram. I didn’t caption it with anything wanky though; I’m not that far gone (yet). I had similar self parody thoughts though.

I have a jersey house cow and have spent the summer making butter and ice cream and yoghurt. Cheese next!

Personally I think making vanilla extract is a waste of time and money because you're paying retail price for pods and without the industrial equipment, your extraction rate will be very low and probably poor-quality. I prefer to use pods as pods, and buy good extract. But it's maybe worth doing once just for the experience.

Just keep mixing cream! Go past the stage of whipping cream and eventually it separates and becomes butter! Then wash the buttermilk off it

Does it taste better than shop-bought butter?

@off-I don't want to hear that about vanilla extract and I choose to believe tic-toc! I intend to put it in pretty bottles with hand designed labels as the wankiest Christmas presents ever.

I've got a pair of those wooden butter pats as well so there's no hope for me.

Helps with removing the whey.

Homemade butter tastes amazing.

Sorry, a house cow? Say what now?

To make the butter I just whipped cream until it separated then strained it, squeezed it, rinsed it it iced water then added some middle class salt and rolled it into cylinders and put it in the freezer.

A pet cow. Well actually I have 2!

It'll be lovely!

@Alycidon I haven't tried it yet- I'm still basking in my cleverness. It is half the price though.

Middle class salt crystals were a necessity

@CurlewKate it will be delicious, and the extra cost is justifiable for the joy of making it and the sheer handmade wanky gorgeousness.

Butter envy. There's never enough salt in shop-bought butter. I love the French stuff with the salt crystals.

Right. I was on a thread yesterday whose husband is a gold planner-and I was so jealous. That was nothing to how I feel now I know about Mumsnetters with jersey house cows....

I aspire to this level of wankyness, I really do! I often make my own bread, pasta (with funky colours!) and pizza dough, and sometimes make my own ketchup which is lovely. Butter is something I need to get into, especially as the supermarket at the top of my road is always overflowing with lots of yellow sticker cream and butter costs a bomb. Annoyingly I don’t use social media anymore - if I make butter but nobody I went to school with thirty years ago sees it, did I really make butter? 🙄

M&S do a really salty butter... don't remember the name tho. I made butter once when I over whipped the cream for my DDs birthday Eton mess... so I just kept going, added salt... it was delicious.

I actually own one of these https://www.kilnerjar.co.uk/0025348-butter-churner/

We make wanky butter with middle class salt with alarming regularity.

I made dog biscuits once...

When I was a kid, DM had a gadget for making 'cream' from unsalted butter and milk. I suppose that was in the days before skimmed milk and cream was relatively more expensive.

It wasn't very nice.