Butter, help

[Yvette]

MJ looks different

[judydawn]

She sure does - do you have a hat on MJ?

[gertbysea]

That is someone impersonating MJ.

I make butter all the  time especially when I find cream really cheap The older the cream the better the butter. I often freeze it and when I defrost it it takes but a minute to beat it into submission .

I love butter. Butter is best. I use pink Himalayan  salt and rice bran oil.

Gert

[Halex]

One of the reasons I havent made butter before was I thought it woukd be too hard. Also the cost. Now I have made it & bought my cream at a cheaper price I think its great. I use buttermilk for my Nigellas nuggets & a chicken drumstick recipe, so in future when I need buttermilk I will make butter as I think it is cheaper than buying butter & buttermilk.

H

[judydawn]

Homemade buttermilk is more runny than the bought variety though Hally - will it still be OK?

[Halex]

We will see. So wat does everyone use the buttermilk for?

H

[EmeraldSue]

I use buttermilk in my baking - pancakes, scones, muffins and cakes.. I always used to have a carton in my fridge, but now I freeze buttermilk left over from butter making for baking.

[fundj&e]

H, you can freeze the  cream until u are ready to make more butter and it works with thickened cream too, but not with lite cream   

[mcmich]

MJ??

[dede]

Great job Halex, your butter looks great.
If you were using the butter milk that day or the next I would keep it in the fridge, otherwise freeze it until needed
If I ever see cream marked down I will buy it just to make butter as it really is so quick and easy

[mcmich]

I've only made butter once and it was really hard even left out of the fridge
I didn't add any oil though.

[fundj&e]

u should try it agian with some oil M

[dede]

I don't add oil if I'm using it for cooking, but add oil if I want it for spreadable butter. I use grapeseed oil

[Halex]

Thanks ES.

I didnt add oil. Mine spead fine but I left it out the fridge, it is now in the fridge so might not spread? When do you add oil & how much?

If the buttermilk is runny how do you thicken it?

H 

[fundj&e]

my buttermilk is runny 2 hally

add the oil after the rinsing, how much, not sure how much i use,start with a few tbls and see how that gos i am sure someone will have the right about to use