How do i make butter from buttermilk?
Posted in Cooking & Recipes | Asked by victoria | 2012-02-19 10:45:58 | (22) answers

my uncle lives on a farm and for his open house he served butter that he made on his own i really want to make it because that butter was so good im craving it but i only have store boght milk and i have some butter milk

by JOHN      2012-03-05 18:46:00

Butter milk is what's left over after the cream has been churned to make butter. But, you can still make more butter from it, but not on a commercial scale.Making butter is quite simple - it's just a matter of churning to separate the cream out so that what we are left with 'butter'.You can experiment with making small scale butter yourself, much as I used to as a child back in the 1940s. Put some butter milk, a third full, into a jar, screw on the lid and then start shaking the jar up and down. In about half an hour you'll have what looks like a knob of butter, white usually, but it's butter never the less. Looks a bit like Danish Lurpak butter.http://www.igourmet.com/images/productsL…For more about making butter, check out the links below - it's really just a matter of shaking, shaking and shaking.http://www.motherearthnews.com/Real-Food…http://www.slashfood.com/2006/03/03/how-…http://www.ehow.com/how_4868843_make-but…How to make butter in under five minutes. . . .http://www.overthehillandonaroll.com/200…More cream information - Cornish Clotted Creamhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clotted_cre…yes and you can buy Cornish Clotted Cream on-line if you want to try it.

by John Wilkinson      2012-03-05 16:46:01

Butter comes from cream not buttermilk. If you take cream and whip it it will become whipped cream. If you keep whipping it it turns to butter.

by psiexplo...      2012-03-05 00:46:16

They are right about making butter from cream and not buttermilk. We used to make small batches of butter by putting cream in a plastic tupperware type container with a clothespin and shaking the beejezus out of it.

by John Wilkinson      2012-03-03 23:46:11

Butter comes from cream not buttermilk. If you take cream and whip it it will become whipped cream. If you keep whipping it it turns to butter.

by Nemesis      2012-03-03 18:46:10

Butter is not made from buttermilk.Just take heavy whipping cream, and whip it beyond the point of being whipped cream. It will eventually turn into butter (you can do this in a food processor or mixer).

by Graceeh      2012-02-28 22:46:03

Buttermilk is what is left after all the fat (ie butter) has been removed from whole milk. You need whipping cream to make buttermilk. Just pour some into your blender and process on medium-slow speed and you'll make butter in a couple of minutes.

by Gemma F      2012-02-27 23:46:08

You don't - buttermilk is what's left over AFTER they've made the butter. To make butter you need FULL CREAM milk straight out of the cow - not this rubbish you have to buy in plastic bottles nowadays!

by JOHN      2012-02-26 14:46:16

Butter milk is what's left over after the cream has been churned to make butter. But, you can still make more butter from it, but not on a commercial scale.Making butter is quite simple - it's just a matter of churning to separate the cream out so that what we are left with 'butter'.You can experiment with making small scale butter yourself, much as I used to as a child back in the 1940s. Put some butter milk, a third full, into a jar, screw on the lid and then start shaking the jar up and down. In about half an hour you'll have what looks like a knob of butter, white usually, but it's butter never the less. Looks a bit like Danish Lurpak butter.http://www.igourmet.com/images/productsL…For more about making butter, check out the links below - it's really just a matter of shaking, shaking and shaking.http://www.motherearthnews.com/Real-Food…http://www.slashfood.com/2006/03/03/how-…http://www.ehow.com/how_4868843_make-but…How to make butter in under five minutes. . . .http://www.overthehillandonaroll.com/200…More cream information - Cornish Clotted Creamhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clotted_cre…yes and you can buy Cornish Clotted Cream on-line if you want to try it.

by psiexplo...      2012-02-26 01:46:02

They are right about making butter from cream and not buttermilk. We used to make small batches of butter by putting cream in a plastic tupperware type container with a clothespin and shaking the beejezus out of it.

by CrustyCu...      2012-02-25 20:46:12

Buttermilk (the original kind, on a farm) is the liquid that is left over after heavy cream has been churned to release the butter. Commercially produced buttermilk is chemically treated to give it a similar flavor, but the texture (viscosity) is entirely different.Butter is the accumulation of fat (and a percentage of water) that results from agitating the cream. In my youth there were Daisy brand churns that had a four-paddle "dasher" that revolved when you turned a crank on the top of the churn. Eventually, the butter was released from the cream and you had butter, and buttermilk.Earlier churns were vertical cylinders with a round disc on the bottom of the handle. The handle was manipulated up and down, and the agitation eventually caused the fat to separate.You need some kind of churn appliance (a vase and an electric drill with a paddle chucked in it comes to mind) to do the agitation. Don't whip the cream. You don't want air to be introduced, just a steady, relatively slow motion to cause the fat molicules to be introduced to each other.Good luck.

by Laa Laa      2012-02-25 00:46:00

I saw Paula Deen make butter from scratch on her Paula's Party show once and it looked pretty hard. Maybe she was making it more complicated than it needed to be? Someone was teaching it to her.You could try buying some specialty butter at a fancy gourmet store. That might taste the same. Or else ask your uncle how he made it?

by Malcolm Reynolds      2012-02-24 21:46:06

Pour about two cups of buttermilk into a bowl and stir it very, very slowly. It'll take about three hours, but it makes the best butter ever.

by Gemma F      2012-02-24 19:46:00

You don't - buttermilk is what's left over AFTER they've made the butter. To make butter you need FULL CREAM milk straight out of the cow - not this rubbish you have to buy in plastic bottles nowadays!

by mojos196...      2012-02-23 19:46:01

When I was a kid my Mom bought farm fresh milk...She'd let the milk sit for a day until all the fat rose to the surface...Then she'd ladle off the fat and myself and my brother would take turns shaking a mayo jar full of the fat until the fat became butter...My Mom would then ad a pinch of salt and a pinch of sugar and we had sweet, salty butter...I really don't know if you can actually still do that because the pasteurization process breaks down the fat, but try it and good luck.. :-)Oh, and it usually took like 3 hours to butter from the milk, and what was left over that wasn't solid, my Mom called it the buttermilk..

by mojos196...      2012-02-22 12:46:13

When I was a kid my Mom bought farm fresh milk...She'd let the milk sit for a day until all the fat rose to the surface...Then she'd ladle off the fat and myself and my brother would take turns shaking a mayo jar full of the fat until the fat became butter...My Mom would then ad a pinch of salt and a pinch of sugar and we had sweet, salty butter...I really don't know if you can actually still do that because the pasteurization process breaks down the fat, but try it and good luck.. :-)Oh, and it usually took like 3 hours to butter from the milk, and what was left over that wasn't solid, my Mom called it the buttermilk..

by Mr. Grummp      2012-02-21 20:46:15

You can make butter from whole milk that has not been homogenized. Let the cream rise to the top and scrape it off. If the milk has been homogenized, the cream will not rise to the top, it will remain suspended in the milk.After you have scraped the cream off the top, use one of the methods listed above to turn the cream into butter. What remains after that is buttermilk, a by-product of butter churning. You cannot start with buttermilk and turn it into butter.

by Graceeh      2012-02-21 19:46:11

Buttermilk is what is left after all the fat (ie butter) has been removed from whole milk. You need whipping cream to make buttermilk. Just pour some into your blender and process on medium-slow speed and you'll make butter in a couple of minutes.

by Mr. Grummp      2012-02-21 18:46:02

You can make butter from whole milk that has not been homogenized. Let the cream rise to the top and scrape it off. If the milk has been homogenized, the cream will not rise to the top, it will remain suspended in the milk.After you have scraped the cream off the top, use one of the methods listed above to turn the cream into butter. What remains after that is buttermilk, a by-product of butter churning. You cannot start with buttermilk and turn it into butter.

by Malcolm Reynolds      2012-02-21 12:46:12

Pour about two cups of buttermilk into a bowl and stir it very, very slowly. It'll take about three hours, but it makes the best butter ever.

by CrustyCu...      2012-02-20 21:46:04

Buttermilk (the original kind, on a farm) is the liquid that is left over after heavy cream has been churned to release the butter. Commercially produced buttermilk is chemically treated to give it a similar flavor, but the texture (viscosity) is entirely different.Butter is the accumulation of fat (and a percentage of water) that results from agitating the cream. In my youth there were Daisy brand churns that had a four-paddle "dasher" that revolved when you turned a crank on the top of the churn. Eventually, the butter was released from the cream and you had butter, and buttermilk.Earlier churns were vertical cylinders with a round disc on the bottom of the handle. The handle was manipulated up and down, and the agitation eventually caused the fat to separate.You need some kind of churn appliance (a vase and an electric drill with a paddle chucked in it comes to mind) to do the agitation. Don't whip the cream. You don't want air to be introduced, just a steady, relatively slow motion to cause the fat molicules to be introduced to each other.Good luck.

by Nemesis      2012-02-20 18:46:06

Butter is not made from buttermilk.Just take heavy whipping cream, and whip it beyond the point of being whipped cream. It will eventually turn into butter (you can do this in a food processor or mixer).

by Laa Laa      2012-02-19 18:46:16

I saw Paula Deen make butter from scratch on her Paula's Party show once and it looked pretty hard. Maybe she was making it more complicated than it needed to be? Someone was teaching it to her.You could try buying some specialty butter at a fancy gourmet store. That might taste the same. Or else ask your uncle how he made it?