How to Make Homemade Butter

Description

We’re going to do our own handmade butter, using just cold, heavy cream. It’s done with no heavy equipment at all, just good old-fashioned arm power. It’s the original elbow grease!

Ingredients

  • ⅔ cup cold heavy whipping cream
  • 1 1-cup canning jar with lid and ring

Instructions

  1. Pour cream into the jar and screw on the lid. Shake the jar until butter forms a soft lump
  2. 15 to 20 minutes. Continue to shake until buttermilk separates out of the lump and the jar contains a solid lump of butter and liquid buttermilk.
  3. Pour the contents of the jar into a fine-mesh strainer and strain out the buttermilk
  4. leaving the solid butter. Remove the lump of butter and wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate until needed.

Prep Time: 15 mins

Total Time: 15 mins

Servings: 4

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