Making Butter

I have never made butter before.  I was getting ready to go to the store and buy more butter when Dan's cousin's wife told me she needed to churn her butter before going to bed.  I asked her how to make my own butter and she told me what she did.  So I got the stuff and did it!

 I got 1 qt of heavy whipping cream.

added 2 T of  Real Sea Salt (that is my salt of choice now days when I have salt) (Salt is optional)

Then we churned the whipping cream in the mixer until it separated from the buttermilk.  Then we strained in a colander and rinsed with cold water and then we wrapped it up in a cheese cloth to squeeze out the extra water.

The whole process took about 10-15 min.

The blue dish is my butter dish (and only some of the butter is there) and the other is 2 cups of buttermilk, that I will save and use for cooking.

Thanks Jessi for giving me a simple way to make raw butter for myself.

Slice of Life # 30 ~ Kitchen Disasters

You think doing something like this would be easy right?  Well, I haven't made pies or anything like that in a few years so going to spend Thanksgiving with my parents I brought this along to make as my "desseret".  We were each to bring our favorite pie or dessert with us.  I made it the day before Thanksgiving as Thanksgiving Day is so busy, and I screwed it up!  I put the crust into the pan and then instead of putting the milk in a bowel to make the filling, I poured the milk in on top the crest.  It was still good to eat, but not as good as it would have been if I had done it right.  At least my Rainbow Jello  came out pretty good!

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