Ready made buttermilk MIGHT have a little cream or butter added to it , but why not buy cream in the first place ? Buying fresh milk WOULD net you a little cream, but one gallon of milk wouldn't give you enough cream to fool with making butter....Those separators had all sorts of paddles and things inside to get every bit of cream out of the milk..which was then fed to the critters, as skim milk wasn't considered drinkable....The cream was poured into the Daisy churn ...the deal with the paddles that you turned till you got butter....Again, start with cream from the dairy case...HEAVY cream....And a very clean jar...Schoolteachers sometimes have their pupils make butter this way..... Working the butter is done by using a special butter paddle shaped something like a spatula...You just smush the butter around, flatten it out , stir it up, etc..to work the little droplets of milk out of it then later to work the salt in...... Jeannie T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ On Thu, 29 May 2008 10:10:22 -0400 "Smoochie Newton" <smoochieangelpie@gmail.com> writes: > Stellllllllla!!! Mornnin'.... can I use all ready made > buttermilk? or start with something other than the fresh milk? > don't know > where I can get fresh milk around these parts unless I can figger > a way to > milk a fish. When you say "work it up".... exactly how is that > done? Am I > to take the cream off the top? I can remember gramma making > butter.... but > for the life of me, I can't recall the whole process. She poured > fresh > from the cow milk into a separator. From there all I can remember > is > turning the handle of a big glass "jar" with wooden paddles inside. > Was > well worth the effort..... YUM!! > > paulette in sw fla usa > > > > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Stella Roper <busmar1852@webtv.net> > wrote: > > > Paulette , to make fresh butter...```` you have to have the fresh > > milk...and let it sit and form cream on top...and then you churn > it till > > butter forms and you take it off the top and work it up...getting > all > > the "water" out of it till it's solid...and you then have > buttermilk > > left in the churn. I did it for forty years (Mama did) now I buy > the > > organic, or amish butter, at my grandson's store. Stella > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ____________________________________________________________ Click to see huge collection of discounted designer watches. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/Ioyw6i3mdA2sBMRXSOsvD6g7ClbhxwIWWTYyBRVPykxwLBpM1uKVtS/