Homemade butter

Oh, I can just smell the warm fresh baked bread come out of the oven. 

Making that first slice and watching the steam roll up from the knife cutting through. 

Then taking fresh made salted butter, and spreading it on. 

Taking that first bite. 

Oh how I love fresh bread and butter. 

Sad part is I'm not eating bread right now but I still remember the taste. And one day I will once again enjoy it. 

Well today I want to let you all know how easy it is to make butter. 

No really it is!

And it's even better with fresh raw milk. 

We are lucky enough to be able to buy fresh milk from an organic farm close to town. We go pick up once a week on our day. Oh how I love this day! 

When we pick up our milk it is whole milk. So if I let it sit in the frig for a bit it will separate. 

 

If you look closely at the larger jar, which is what we pick up our milk in, you can see the separation. 

What I do is take a ladle and scoop some of this up. I leave some so we can get some of that good fat. 

You don't have get fresh whole milk to make butter you can buy cream from the grocer. 

So here's what you need. 

Homemade butter 

You will need

Cream and a blender

Yep that is it!

First you will need to pour you cream in your blender and turn it on. 

This will take a few minutes. 

It will first turn to whipped cream, then it will get kind of chunky. But you need to wait until it separates. 

It will have a milky looking substance which is called buttermilk. 

The you just need to scoop it out and let it drain all the butter milk off of it. I used a fork to press it then I also use a flour sack towel to peas it also. 

And what you have left over is the buttermilk. It is great to cook with or drink. I use mine when making pancakes. 

Now you can add a little sea salt if you like. I also added garlic powder because we used this batch on garlic toast. 

And it is so yummy! See it's not that hard. It's fun to do it with the kids because they just love seeing something change into something completely different. 

Let me know how your butter turns out. 

God Bless,

Jen