Photo: Homemade Butter Recipe
Notes
When I make breakfast on my day off, I always use the opportunity to get back to the basics. I love making my own butter and jams for toast. I have found its very important to use a natural sour cream that doesnt have any thickeners (like Guar gum) when making this recipe.
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups heavy cream
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 teaspoon coarse sea salt
- Freshly ground black pepper
Prepare a medium-size bowl of ice water. In the bowl of an electric stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, gradually whip the cream and sour cream together. Increase the speed of the mixer and continue whipping until the cream separates and the mixture thickens.
Use a rubber spatula to gather up the butter and remove it from the bowl. There will be some liquid that is a natural result of this process. That liquid is actually buttermilk. Gather the ball of butter together into a double layer of cheesecloth or a thin kitchen towel and plunge it into the ice bath to wash any buttermilk off the surface. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, to taste. Pack the butter into a bowl or roll it into a ball or log shape using plastic wrap. Use immediately or store in the refrigerator.
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By RainyDay Wanderer
on February 04, 2013
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Warning this recipe will destroy your diet. It is good. Try it with Emirl's Italian Bread recipe. I made it with my kids. They had fun, learned how to make butter. I have not tried it baking as I do not know the fat content. Man going back to smartbalance is going to be tough.
By ecw7_2825646
Bonaire, GA
on November 25, 2012
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Though I have been baking for many years this is the first time I have made butter. I searched for the recipe after seeing her make this on Iron Chef recently. The butter is good and so much fun to do.
Glad I read the reviews and in addition to the collar found draping the cheesecloth over the mixer contained the free flying liquid very nicely. Made a batch of honey butter, very nice.
By erotica
on March 24, 2012
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This is such a great tasting butter, so clean and fresh. It reminds me of my own grandmother, sitting on the porch in her rocking chair with a small jar of fresh milk, shaking it until the butter formed. You could see how natural it was for her to be doing it, sort of absentmindedly shaking the jar while she talked. It was something she did often. I hope everyone will give this a try and thank you Alex for sharing with us something that our ancestors did all the time.
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