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I just love reading Little House in the Big Woods. And every time I read it to my children we make butter. You know? Because Ma Ingalls made butter.
Ma Ingalls had it goin’ on! That woman could do it all, and did. I’m tellin’ ya, her butter was some kinda fancy! She dyed (it’s alright, she used carrot juice), washed and salted her butter, then pressed it into molds. That woman went all out, ya know?
Me? I poured a pint of cream into a clean quart jar, screwed the lid on, and handed it to my kids.
Took 20 minutes of shaking to turn cream into butter. Then I rinsed it a little, salted it a little and stuck it in the fridge, then mopped my brow and felt like a pioneer wimp.
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I am looking forward to seeing all of your projects that you’ve been working on. This ought to be fun!
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Thanks for sharing. I’ve always wanted to see butter made. Good pictures.
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Linda
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My parents got a milk cow when I was in high school. They found an eggbeater style churn at an antique store, and I became the family butter churner. I didn’t like milking at all, but I would happily crank the butter churn while chatting with my friends on the telephone!
I’m with you Cyndi. Shameful to admit, but I think children throughout all of history have felt like making butter was an awful lot of boring work, mine included. There is joy at the outset, the joy of doing something different and interesting. Then the immense boredom and the complaining. Then more excitement at the end, BUTTER! Look! A payoff! Then, I hope, a little guilt at being a bum for most of the churning part.
I think it would be cool to have one of those “eggbeater” style churns. Cool to look at when not in use. And maybe a little easier to make butter with.
And can I add, when you have a large family, you will read Little House in the Big Woods several times, and so make butter several times, and so you will have many character building opportunities with each successive churning. Not as frequently as Ma Ingalls did, but you get my drift.
Do your kids like the shaking or do they complain? My kids would like the concept and the finished product but not the work it would take to actually do it. The blender method is more their style, but what’s the fun in that? I actually priced old fashioned butter churns once and was shocked to find them so expensive. I am actually thinking of investing in the kind that looks like a jar with an egg beater attatched to it.
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Yeah, we only make it for the nostalgic appeal.
Forgot to mention you can use the buttermilk in pancakes and other baking so it is not wasted…
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Well, I know you won’t want to make it again soon, but if you do… you can make it in the blender. Just put room temperature cream in, and pulse for a minute or so.
This only becomes economical if you are able to find fresh milk from a farmer at a reasonable price.
Making your own butter looks like fun…I’d love to try it. What did it taste like?
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Mandy (UK)
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I don’t remember the cost of the cream, but it’s more $$ than a pound of butter. So, no, this is not a money saver. Just a fun experience.
Have to ask…can you save any money doing this, or is it just for fun??
We just read that part today…but we didn’t make butter!
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