Have you ever made homemade butter?
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NZer — 4 weeks ago(March 05, 2026 03:40 PM)
I used a hand beater and I was whipping cream for my mother's Pavlova cake. In my youthful exuberance I whipped it for too long and it turned into a lovely sweet butter. (No sugar was involved). I think we simply threw the liquid away and had the butter on a cracker right then and there. No waiting involved.
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Lilith — 3 weeks ago(March 05, 2026 06:29 PM)
I've always enjoyed the natural sweetness in things like whipped cream. When my Nana would make it, she would always put a batch aside for me before she sweetened the rest of it to put on her homemade pies or strawberry shortcake. (Ooooh, strawberry shortcake! That sounds so yummy right now!)
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Lilith — 4 weeks ago(March 05, 2026 02:19 PM)
If you have electric beaters, it doesn't seem like too much hard work.
I'm not going to eat what's being pumped out as butter. I was disappointed to learn that the company I was buying eggs and butter from (Vital Farms) which advertised as all coming from small farms with pasture raised hens and cows was bought out by BlackRock in 2020 and now the animal conditions are not as free. Everything is slowly being destroyed.
I'm going to be making my own mayonnaise as well.
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Aph the cat whisperer — 4 weeks ago(March 05, 2026 07:47 AM)
It's a long process but it's rewarding. Might I suggest you start with a bit of cream in a mason jar. All you have to do is shake the jar until the fat seperates. It's how I used to make buttermilk until stores started selling it over here regulary lol. But yeah, use stand aid at any possibility to make the process easier
Also, what are they telling you to leave out? The cream or the butter afterwards? I left some butter out one time in a jar and it smelt like feet after a few days
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Lilith — 4 weeks ago(March 05, 2026 02:22 PM)
Do I just use heavy cream in a mason jar and shake it (a lot, of course)? Does that turn into butter just from doing that? That sounds like a good way for me to start off since I've never made butter before.
Did it taste good when you made it that way? Did you notice any difference?
I don't have a mixer with a stand, just handheld electric beaters, and I was going to use that, but I think that if I first experiment with what you suggested, it'll give me an idea of what I should and shouldn't do first.
And I don't want to eat anything that smells like feet! Bleecchh! lol
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MJ66 — 4 weeks ago(March 05, 2026 02:25 PM)
In grade school our teacher had us make some using the Mason jar technique. After a lot of shaking it worked. I don't recall how it tasted as this was over 50 years ago.
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Lilith — 4 weeks ago(March 05, 2026 02:54 PM)
I guess that'll be my arm workout for the day the, eh?
I cook a lot, and if I can, I want to try to make as many things from scratch as possible.
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MissMargoChanning — 3 weeks ago(March 05, 2026 05:11 PM)
I vaguely recall us making some in my home economics class in High school.
I like the idea of adding different herbs to it. Of course you can add your own flavorings and herbs to softened butter.
I do that and store it in a butter keeper.
We made mayo too! Until then, I never even knew that was made with eggs. I was around 14 at the time.
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Lilith — 3 weeks ago(March 05, 2026 06:38 PM)
I really enjoyed Home-Ec classes. I remember we even had them in summer day camp when I was a kid. It's where I learned how to make popovers.
We never got around to butter and mayo, however. That would have been fun.
I've been trying to make more things from scratch as the ingredient's labels started getting longer and more chemicals are being added. Now with all this bio-engineered junk out there, I'm even more cautious.
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It’smonicah — 3 weeks ago(March 05, 2026 05:36 PM)
I didn’t know you could leave yogurt out in room temperature like that. It looks a little too complicated to make for me though.
My mom would use to make nut milk and it took days to do. It probably is healthier and taste better to do it home made
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