Have you ever made your own butter?

I get that mag at the store everyonce in awhile. I really like it. I like the Hobby Farm mag too. Lots of good info in those. Have fun with the butter making!

you'll know it is butter when it goes past the whipped cream stage (like cool whip) and starts to seperate into butter and buttermilk. You can use a food processor or a stand mixer to do this also. I just like shaking it in the jar.

My grandmother would milk the cows, skim off the cream and put it into a butterchurn (a crock with a lid and a dasher) and churn the butter then she would drain it and wash it and season it. My grandmother made butter all the time she couldn't afford to buy all the groceries they needed so she made what she could. They butchered there own meat (cows,pigs and chickens) smoked it and froze it. They canned what they got from the garden. In the summer there was berry picking. In the fall hunting and trapping. They also went ginseng hunting (weird to call it that since it is a root) and sold the ginseng. That is the kind of life I would like to get back to. Living off the land as much as possible.

Oh I am definitely going to have to try this! I love butter real butter not that margarine stuff. Every since I found out what margarine really is, I refuse to eat it or feed it to my children. I agree with your comment about getting back to living on the land. We all would be so much healthier if we did. I have never been one for eating much veggies except I always liked corn on the cob, peas, and a few other things, but we planted a garden last year and I tell you what I have never tasted veggies that were so delicious! We planted Acorn Squash, zucchini, hubbard squash, Sweet peas, broccoli OMG I'm so pleased with our garden. We're not canning stuff because I hate the taste of canned vegetables but we are cutting it up and freezing it. The squash we cook first let it cool down naturally then freeze it and it still tastes delicious. My husband is from Ecuador and his family used to make their own cheese, butter, they butcher their own meat etc. My dream is to some day have a small farm where we can plant our own garden and raise some chickens ( nothing so good as farm fresh eggs YUM, a couple of cows one for milk and maybe 2 for the meat, a couple of pigs etc, and one of the things hubby said he'd love to have again is some home made butter. I didn't realize it's so easy to make it thank you so much for posting this because I will definitely give it a shot!

Butter makes everything taste better LOL. I like using real butter instead of margerine. Margerine has so many additives and it is basically oil and water. Butter is much better.