[Sca-cooks] Butterfat content?

[Johnna Holloway]

This varies by type or breed of cow being milked.
http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/cattle/
You might check what they are milking.

Johnnae

Tara Sersen Boroson wrote:

> 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.
>