How to Make Old Fashioned Butter

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[TastingHistory]

I chose to use raw cream for this episode as it is the main thing that makes recipe “historical”. When making modern butter, I always used Pasteurized cream. The process has saved countless lives and I think it might be a good topic for a video!

[msoda]

When I was in elementary school I had a teacher who would tie food to history lessons when learning about pioneers she had us all learn how they made butter by passing around the butter churn jar until it became butter. We then got to eat the butter we made on bread she had baked at home.
It’s one of my favorites memories from elementary school. I credit that teach with starting my love of history by making it come alive rather then just facts on a page.

[sevensongs]

The tall butter churn actually only takes 30 minutes or so if you take turns with excited children! I used to work at a historical museum, and it's amazing how fast it can happen when that's all the kids want. 😂

[sarwelhlaalu]

Fun fact about butter: In Medieval times, butter was used to pack breakable items like glass and crockery. The items were packed in crates and warm, liquid butter poured over them. Once the butter solidified again, the items could not move in the crate and where thus safe from breaking. This practice is the origin of the German idiom "alles in Butter" (literally: "Everything in butter"), meaning "everything is allright".

[JackRabidDrag]

My mom loves to tell a story about me as a toddler where she found me in the fridge, stick of butter in hand, just munching on it like a candy bar. Nearly 3 decades later, I gotta say... the urge is still there. Loved this video!

[terri]

My sister was trying to make whip cream, but she processed it too long and made butter. So, for Christmas, she made small loaves of bread, homemade jam, and home made butter. All 3 in a basket( each basket from dollar store) and gave as gifts. BEST Christmas present ever!

[marianhrubypumper]

I remember my mother making butter from our “top cream” in just the way you describe. We salted our butter. As an adult I made gee. I was born 77 years ago when we made our own soap from ashes and fat and of course our own milk, butter, butter milk, cream, soft and hard cheese. Thank you for bringing back this “lost lore”

[lrstudio]

Such a wonderful episode! We can all relate to butter. 😄

I grew up on a farm and we had a single milk cow (Molly). During early spring when all of the wild green onions would sprout up in the pasture, Molly would just gorge herself on these. She loved them!

While this made her happy, it made for terrible milk. It became undrinkable.

BUT, it made for wonderfully flavored butter that was excellent on a baked potato or in mashed potatoes.

My mother would label it as green onion butter in the fridge lest we accidentally put it on toast with jam. 😄

[Susan-jz]

I grew up on a farm. We had gurnsey cows. My mother made butter that was a bright yellow. She beat the cream with an egg beater, when it turned, she washed it as you did by hand, and she had wooden butter molds that she packed it in. She always made bread to go with it. My father sat in the kitchen, waiting for that bread to come out of the oven. He just loved homemade butter on a chunk of warm bread. And so did we - my brother and sister. It was a wonderful life.

[donhull]

Max, clarified butter is made by melting the butter at a relatively low temperature and separating it from the milk solids without letting the solids "brown".
Ghee is made by heating the melted butter to a higher temperature so that the milk solids start to brown, then separating them from the melted butter. Slightly browning the milk solids gives ghee a slightly nutty flavor you don't get with clarified butter.

[CowgirlWren]

My grandmother, born in 1914 in Scandinavia, would use unsalted butter on her face every day as a moisturizer. In her 90's, she still had phenomenal looking skin!

[tachiebillano]

Laura Ingalls Wilder devoted a section of her "Little House in the Big Woods" (the first of her "Little House in the Prairie" series) to how her mother Caroline would make butter, from start to finish. Look it up and it's pretty detailed. Includes how Caroline would color the butter with carrots, to give it extra sweetness and yellow that the milk may have lacked. (And added salt as needed.) It's a great description of how rural Americans in the 19th c. made it.

[estherfischer]

For a time when all my kids (6 kids) were young, a litre of whipping cream was less expensive than a pound of butter, so being a poor, homeschooling family, I turned butter making into a history lesson and we made our own butter. Just used a large glass jar, took turns shaking it till the butter came, washed it, squeezed out the buttermilk (which made great pancakes or biscuits), salted it and we had our butter. I don't think any of the children regret those times now that they are grown.

[elyseforseth]

I used to work as a historical interpreter in a living history village in Florida. The first time I made butter was outside during peak heat in the middle of Summer, and it was an incredibly smelly, greasy, and frustrating mess. We kept having to run inside to the air-conditioning and sit it in a bucket of ice to get it to do what we needed. Definitely makes you appreciate (most) modern amenities. I can't wait to watch this!

[uncletacosupreme]

Your empression of Julie Childs is on point. I cant count the number of times my dad and I laughed about her. At the same time she changed the kitchen game for all generations. Im so glad we have her recorded for all time.

[jpt]

When my daughter was little, I was a library worker at her school. I used to read to the kids Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder. One of our year-end projects was making butter. I put the kids in a circle and then had a jar half filled with cream. The kids were told to shake it until they got tired and pass it to the person next to them. When we were finished, I rinsed and salted the butter, gave whoever wanted to try a taste of real buttermilk, and served the butter on some homemade bread. They loved it!

[Lunabaeee]

This reminds me of how we made butter as a kid but what we did was just put the cream (fresh from our cows) straight into a mason jar, about 3/5ths full and seal the lid with a little plastic wrap, and then we just shook it but not in a violent back and forth motion, it was more of like a rowing motion where you'd dip the lid end down and then sort of scoop it up. Anyways you do this for like 15-20 minutes and one hell of an arm workout later you'd have a smooth ball of butter in the jar (depending on how good your motion was, if you just went violently back and forth it would all be little clumps that would have to be strained). We boys used to have contests of who could make butter the fastest and still in a smooth ball. Lots of memories and basically no equipment other than a mason jar and some elbow grease! Thanks for the video, many fond memories.

[ferociousgustafson]

3 minutes in and this is my favourite episode. This show keeps getting better.

[zuitsuit]

Dogs are such amazing creatures. The idea of the family dog working to make the household butter is adorable. I hope those dogs got to taste some of their work as a treat.

[ClevorBelmont]

I like this man; no excessive and obnoxious cuts, good delivery and he TEACHES. Max and Townsends are two of the best food historians on youtube.