Hello and welcome to Todd's kitchen
Butter is an ingredient i use in many recipes but most people don't realise you can make it at home
So join me to day as i show you how to make home made butter
Into a mixing bowl pour in our
thickened cream
in America it is also called heavy cream
its basically a very thick milk
that has about thirty five percent fat. You can use a hand mixer if you choose but im using a
stand mixer
So whip the cream on high
until it comes up extremely thick.
The other way to do this is put it into a jar and shake it but that can take about twenty minutes and will also hurt your arm
so it is part way there
it has started to thicken up
this is at soft peak stage so keep on mixing
So at this point im going to change the head
if your using a normal hand mixer you don't need to
but if your using a stand mixer you will
and now I'm adding the paddle attachment
again if you have a hand mixer keep mixing
but if you have a stand mixer
switch to a paddle
So what you will see soon it
this will start to separate into solids and liquids. The liquid is the butter milk
and the solids will be the butter
The solids have started to separate from the butter milk
turn the speed down to prevent splashing
it has been mixing
for about five minutes
and you can really see how the
the solid butter and butter milk
keep mixing on low for another minute
you can see the butter on the paddle
so what we will do next
is pour the butter milk into a container
don't throw away the butter milk as it has lots of uses in cooking
im putting this is the fridge to use in another recipe
Now if you want to use the butter straight away
then you don't have to do anything else and use it as is
but if you want to store it in the fridge for longer
then you need to remove the excess butter milk from the butter
So i have some ice water here
it must be ice water
pour some in
and just
push it through the butter
see the water become cloudy
which means its mixing with the butter milk
so we'll keep on doing this
if you don't take all the butter milk out
it will spoil
the butter after a day or so
and it will be useless. So if you want to store it in the fridge
for about a week or so then you have to do this
once you have done the first lot
pour it out
then pour in some more ice water and continue until the
water comes out clear
push hard because you will
find there is butter milk in the air pockets
left within the butter itself
you can see how the water is cloudy so there is still some in there
So this is the last time i need to do it
there is almost no cloudy water at all
the water is still pretty clear
so this should be the last time
next with some cling wrap place the
butter on it
and just
cover it up and thats all we need to do. Make sure its air tight
Thats all we need to do and just place it in the fridge and use when ever you want
so thats how simple it is to make butter from one ingredient
Just remember if you are going to use it straight away don't use the water
but if you want to store it in the fridge for a week or so
then use the ice water
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