How to make butter - homemade butter recipe - made in a jar
Hello and welcome back to in the kitchen with Matt, I am your host Matt Taylor.
Today I am going to show you how to make butter.
We are going to make homemade butter, awesome, really easy to do, 1 ingredient.
Let's get started.
Alright so what we do is we are going to take one cup of heavy cream, heavy whipping cream,
and we are going to go ahead and add it to a mason jar here, make sure to get it all
out.
All right and then go ahead and put the lid on, get it nice and tight.
Ok and now we are going to just shake it, you can use one hand or the other hand, or
both hands, and we are going to shake it until the butter forms, it will take some where
from 5 to 15 to 20 minutes.
Let�s just start shaking it.
Time to get a work out.
After awhile you can start to feel it is not very liquid any more, because it is turning
into a whipped cream, just keep going.
And then you can see if you look in there, the butter is starting to form already, just
keep going.
And after you are done shaking, or as you are shaking and it turns into cream, you are
not going to really hear anything going on in there, for awhile, and then all of a sudden
you are going to hear a sloshing, and that is the butter milk that has been separated
from the butter.
So what we are going to do now is I just have a little bowl here with a little strainer,
and this is what we are going to pour the buttermilk in.
That is the butter.
But we want to be able to store this, and since I want to be able to store this, we
need to rinse off and get the rest of the buttermilk out of there.
Go ahead and shake that, you can even pour that in there, I am just going to shake it
a little bit and get that out of there.
Go ahead and take the butter and put it back in there.
And then we are going to save this buttermilk that we have and use it for pancakes, for
buttermilk pancakes or for whatever else you want to do.
And now what we are going to do is take some cold water, ice-cold water, and we are going
to pour it in here, about half way, top of the butter, umm put the lid on, give it a
good shake, and the water is going to get all nice and cloudy, that's in there.
And then I am going to strain it some more, we will get rid of this liquid that is in
there, and then we will rinse and repeat, set that aside.
And put some more cold water in there, again about half way, and we are going to keep doing
this until the water is no longer cloudy, after we do it.
So just shake it.
It doesn't have to be too long, 30 seconds to a minute.
Again if you are going to use this right away, you do not have to rinse it like this, if
you want to store it, you need to rinse it, several times, that way it will last longer
in the fridge, about a week, week and a half.
Okay now what I am going to do with the rest of this, is I am going to take, a piece of
parchment paper here, go ahead and put that on there, our butter, I am going to go ahead
and press out, the rest of the liquid, and you can use cheese cloth for this for sure.
All right and now, what we have left is our awesome butter.
And then I am just going to take a spatula here and scrape it all together, and there
is a variety of ways that you can do this, you don't have to do it my way.
And if you want to add some salt add some salt and mix it around all nice and well.
And you can wrap it in this and store it, or you can wrap it in plastic wrap and store
it in the plastic wrap.
All right our homemade butter is done.
It turned out awesome, it was super easy to do, one ingredient, this would be a great
activity to do with the family, with the kids, super easy, super fun, and also you burn a
couple calories, doing it as well, and every one likes to do that as well right.
A couple tips, make sure once the liquid starts to come out of the butter, after you start
shaking it, it will go through phases, and after it gets passed the whipped cream phase,
and then the butter forms, and you hear the water or buttermilk sloshing around, um that
is when you want to stop shaking it, and take that butter milk out at that point, if you
keep shaking it with the butter milk in there, what is going to happen is, it is going to
get re-introduced into the butter, and then it is going to change the consistency, and
it is going to mess it up.
Make sure to remove it once that happens, and then rinse it if you want to, if you want
to save the butter for a week or so, rinse it with cold water several times, and there
you go, homemade butter.
Go out there and make some.
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I put a little bit of this on some homemade banana bread; I am going to dive into this
butter, yeah.
Mmm, mmm, mmm, so delicious.