Blender Butter (was Re: SC -Making Butter in Period)

[maddie teller-kook]

I have done butter with my heavy duty kitchen aid.. with the wire wisk. It
turned out great.

meadhbh

Nick Sasso wrote:

> I have made butter in very slow speed food processor with children as
> scince experiment (ith the plastic paddles).  Also with a blender on
> lowest speed.  You have to keep a close eye on it though. When it
> starts to go, it fgoes fast, and can eat up your motor if done too long.
> I'm thinking about trying it with my Heavy Duty Kitchenaide with wire
> whisk.
>
> niccolo
>
> In a message dated 8/3/98 9:12:12 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
> aldyth at juno.com writes:
>
> <<
>  For those of you who are stuck at home during Pennsic, I have a
> question.
>   How was butter made in period?  I would like to have a childrens
>  activity of making butter at the upcoming A&S.  I made butter at my
>  grandma's knee in a pickle jar.  Shook that thing for a long time.
>   >>
>
> you can make butter from sufficiently hi butterfat content milk simply by
> skimming off the cream, placing the cream in a suitable container, and
> shaking
> or agitating it.  Until very recently (when I was a child) every Southern
> Homemaker had a churn to do this.  The ones I have intimate familiarity
> with
> were either wooden or ceramic.  They held about 1 1/2 to 2 gallons.
> You
> filled them half full of the heavy cream at room temperature.  You
> inserted a
> dasher, made of crossed little paddles on a stick through a hole in the
> lid.
> Then you get an urchin to churn ... churn ... churn ... churn ... churn ...
> until yellow flecks appear on the handle of the dasher.  Then you sieve
> the
> butter from the liquid and pat it into a cake or press it into a mold, and
> refrigerate.
>
> Or, you put a pint of heavy cream into a quart jar and shake until it
> begins
> to separate.  Too rapid or vigorous shaking can tend to homogenize the
> mixture, so the strokes must be slow and steady.  If you are seven or
> eight,
> it can seem to take days.
>
> Mordonna
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