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Welcoming Center, Management and General Chat => Chit Chat => Topic started by: Lellyj on September 30, 2011, 02:40:59 pm
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Okay, so it's school holidays and I felt the urge to make butter having read every body else raving about TMX butter!
On my first attempt, I used Bulla pure cream. This is the only "pure cream" I could get at our local shops and it costs over $3 for 200mls. The cream "broke" very quickly and didn't seem to produce much buttermilk at all before it got incorporated and re-whipped in tothe butter again . . . so I ended up with "whipped butter" rather than real butter and no buttermilk . . . very disappointing >:( >:( >:( I used this on pancakes and in some cooking and then scraped the rest into the chook bucket!!
Anyway, I waded my way through the hundreds of butter posts on the forum and found people have successfully used ordinary (thickened or whipping) cream so bought some homebrand for $1.94 for 300 ml. Tried again and the result was perfect . . . I read Katherine's comments that she doesn't save the buttermilk from thickened cream due to the thickeners etc, but I kind of felt that that's the cream we usually use when we have cream, so I did use it.
It was disappointing to have additives etc, when part of my objective was to have a totally natural product,but I couldn't see myself outlaying that kind of money again when shop butter costs so much less. But the butter DID taste great and as I rarely eat butter, usually only have it in the house for cooking and baking for the kids (I use a reduced fat spread- -I know, additives-- ormore often no butter at all) I have to hold myself back from spreading it on everything horizontal!!
As Judydawn has pointed out, I don't think making my own butter will be very economical, so probably won't make it too often, but it's good to know I can !!
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That's right Lellyj, just being able to say 'I can make butter' is another feather in our cap. Keep an eye out for out of date cream at your supermarket and grab all you can get - it is then very economical. I can remember having visitors once and DH proudly announced that I had made everything on the table in the TMX, adding 'including the butter'. No-one makes butter these days so that really did impress them.
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I must admit I havent tried butter as cream costs more here than butter.
H :)
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Making butter is only worthwhile if you find cream going very cheaply.
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Yep my failed butter cost 9.00! So I will keep an eye out for cheap cream and it is totally cool to be able to say I made butter, JD!
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Hally keep your eyes peeled when you go shopping. You often find it marked down and if you ever go to the Spud Shed you can get Harvey Fresh cream there cheaper too.