[Sca-cooks] Butterfat content?

[Pat]

Hmmm, well, you must be buying cream, not milk.  I was a dairy farmer for 20 years.  The highest butterfat any of our cows gave was the Jersey's 8%.  I suppose it might be possible that you might get a sport of some sort that might under the right conditions give as high as 15%, but I rather doubt it.
 
Mordonna
 
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.
>



Pat Griffin
Lady Anne du Bosc
known as Mordonna the Cook
Shire of Thorngill, Meridies
Mundanely, Millbrook, AL