Just made butter with my dc and

[shimmerygoldglitter]

it turned out lovely.

Squeezed all the butter milk out, washed it and then moulded it and sprinkled salt crystals on top and it is really nice. I am so impressed with myself.

Thats all really.

Couple of days he says katymac

Really quick thread hijack, how is DD and you and DH doing KM?

Come & chat here we can leave these nice people to butter

WN... yep, she hates to waste food so she'd still serve the strawberries with the cream that had turned into butter [vomit]

lots of sugar helped sort of...

Katymac come back and tell me how the butter turns out.

Right
tupperware - lid doesn't fit
Baby bottle - the cream expanded & it exploded

now in 2l empty lemonade bottle.....we will see

It looked like scrambled egg & then like butter

Now I just have to get it out the bottle....

cut the bottle near the neck?

Now it looks like Victoria sponge after you put the eggs in before the flour

I am sure that isn't right

It's very sloppy how do you make a shape?

I've done it wrong haven't I?

milknosugarplease, no of COURSE you cant use a big kitchenaid mixer, you know, you may as well just send your mixer over here to me, and I'll take it off your hands.

Oh Geraldine* if your SURE

I don't want it to clash with your decor

It's very red, you see

Is it wrong that I love a kitchen appliance more then I would love my children (if I had any )

is it wrong that i'm a little turned on by a kitchen appliance?

tulips clicky here

is it wrong that I would swap ds2 for your kitchenaid, even though it will clash a little with my decor?

Had to go out last night Katymac, obviously far too late, but yes that was just right, when you rinse it in cold water it sort of forms a shape by itself. Hope it turned out ok.

Never made butter, but my mum used to regale us with tales of making butter when she was a child in France, when they used a CHURN every day!!!

We did make cheese once, when I was a kid, which I think just entailed allowing milk to go off and then hanging it in a muslin cloth for a few days to drain.

Think I might do this with dd sometime though.

lol BALD... i remember that thread one of the better trolls.

Help me please!

It's all gone horribly wrong. I got the cream (double) and whisked and whisked and whisked. Loads of buttermilk splashed everywhere and eventually I stopped. Washed the butter, shaped it, put it on a board. DD salted it.

Lots more buttermilk leaked out. DD tried it, I tasted it. It tasted like cream, not butter.

Buttermilk still leaking out. I whisked it again, for ages. No more liquid, but it was very soft and didn't go into lumps again. I couldn't wash it again as it would have simply gone through the seive.

Stuck it in the fridge where it has hardened like butter, but it tastes like cream and it's horrible on bread etc.

Any ideas of how to resurrect it? No one will touch it

hmmm I would give up and use it to make scones in place of the butter in the recipe

use it for cooking.
In your description, you didnt mention patting it - you have to hit it quite hard to get the buttermilk out.

I am going tomake butter when my friends come for dinner next. I remember mum telling me about a friend of the family who used to make everything including butter and she was really impressed until she got her own food processor and then realised how she managed it.

Oh, I didn't realised you had to hit it. I shall use it for cooking - probably scones as per BALD's suggestion.

I'll try again in a while (when dh's and dd's memories of current pat have faded).

LoveBeingAHungParliament - you have to hit it!

I remember my mother patting the butter for ages with wooden butter pats, before shaping it (yes, the butter was made with cream from our own cows too! Hand milked by my father. Oh the 1970s).