[Sca-cooks] Butterfat content?

[Tara Sersen Boroson]

I've been making my own butter for a while now, and just changed 
allegiences to another farm for my raw cream.  From the first farm, I 
was getting about 9 oz of butter from a quart of cream - it really 
didn't pay to make it at that rate.  Now I'm getting about a pound per 
quart.  So, out of curiosity, I'm trying to figure out the butterfat 
content of the cream.  Is there any fault to my logic here?

I'm figuring, the quart of cream weighed about 2 lbs, and I got 1 lb of 
butter, which is 50%.  About 15% of butter is water, so I'm figuring the 
cream is approximately 42.5% butterfat.

Thank you!
Magdalena

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