Cultured Butter

Anyone make their own cultured butter? I've had Kerrygold but never made my own cultured butter, only sweet cream.

Everything old is new again. I've eaten a lot of cultured butter without even knowing it. Country folks in Kentucky when I was a child and youngster routinely made nothing but cultured butter. They let the milk sour naturally before churning instead of adding culture to it. That was just the way you made butter.

Just like Tom Sawyer and whitewashing the fence, if I was very good they would let me do some churning.

Spence

Not since the 60's lol. Need a source of pure milk.

I was thinking of using yogurt as a starter culture.

Caught my interest on that one. Please post the results if you do it.

Made butter as a kid and that was my dads way, let the cream out for a week then churn.
I’ve not done it but I understand you can get the same effect with a few drops of lemon juice.

I went to the store, bought some plain yogurt and some heavy cream.....I'll post the results...Funny thing was they has Irish butter on sale. :haha:

What style of butter churn do you use?

KitchenAid...... :haha:

:nono: :nono: :nono:

LOL
I used a bottle and shook it till it made butter.

You can use a food processor, too. Butter in 6-8 minutes from heavy cream.

Spence

Well, I screwed up already...
Went to start the culture this morning and poured the cream into a mason jar....When I set the carton down I noticed it said "Half and half" :cursing:

I proceeded anyway....This should be interesting.. :idunno:

Ames said:

:nono: :nono: :nono:

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I tell you what....I'd sell a gun to buy a stand mixer if I had to.....Worth every penny.

Don't get me wrong. I own one and my wife who doesn't cook came to me with a second one.
Old timer that you are I thought you were going to post a pic of an antique butter churn. They showed me how to work one way back in elementary school. We made butter in class.




And I'd never sell a gun for a stand mixer as long as my arms still work.

I ran a couple of different hand churns when I was a kid. It wasn't all that much fun for an 8 year old or younger. We had a gallon glass churn and an larger tin one that handled several gallons. Electric sounds good toy me.

Kansas Jake said:

I ran a couple of different hand churns when I was a kid. It wasn't all that much fun for an 8 year old or younger. We had a gallon glass churn and an larger tin one that handled several gallons. Electric sounds good toy me.

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Exactly!.....Hand churning is even against the Geneva Convention... :haha:

When I was much younger, being the tallest of the grand kids I always got the handle on the butter churn and the ice cream freezer. I didn't know about the Geneva Convention violations until I read Clyde's comments. And to think Grandma was Suisse.

I used a bottle and shook it till it made butter.

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We had this Old-Salt guy that used to come to Market Fair. He'd have tins of fresh butter, and if you asked, he bring it to you salted too. I asked him if he worked in a dairy...

"Naw I live next to a dairy..., I work at Sherwin Williams."

"Huh?" I replied.

He smiled, "I get the cream pretty cheap from my neighbors, and at the paint store we have unlined, new, quart paint cans, so I fill a few up three-quarters with cream, bang-on the lid, and stick 'em in the mixing machine. Only takes a few minutes for each can. When done I use a spatula and put the butter into tins and then into a fridge."



LD

Loyalist Dave said:

I used a bottle and shook it till it made butter.

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"Naw I live next to a dairy..., I work at Sherwin Williams."



LD

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:rotf: :rotf: .....Genius!.... :thumbsup: