My daughter gives "talks" to school children about the Civil War (she's a re-enactor). One of the things she has them do to show how the pioneers made butter is to have them make their own. She brings empty baby food jars and buys cream for them. They shake the jars until they get butter. So yes, buying cream to use will get you butter. She doesn't have them mix it up to get the milk out, but they're happy with what they have. They get to take them home and show their parents. She said they are so excited to show their parents that they made butter. Emma ----- Original Message ----- From: askgranny@juno.com<mailto:askgranny@juno.com> To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com<mailto:southern-chat@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 7:41 AM Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Homemade butter CALM DOWN, Smoochie ... You're coming through loud and clear, Missie ! We used to make butter from cream when I was a kid...just put cream in a jar and shake it till it turns into butter...Hubby did that the first time I had him 'whip' cream by shaking it up in a pint jar.....I was preparing the berries and cooking stove top shortcakes in the kitchen...The cream was cold, but don't know if room temp would work better....The heavier the fat content the more butter you'll end up with....Just keep in mind it'll cost you much more than buying butter already churned....Just shake it till it clots up into butter globs then dip it out....Add a little cold water and smush it around to get the extra milk out of it...Add a little salt....Eat! There won't be very much of it, and you might want to add just a tiny touch of yellow and red coloring if you want it to look like store bought......Use the leftover whey to make bread or whatever....Good luck ! Jeannie T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Hi Emma.... well golly gee willikers..... if a kid can make butter, then I should be able to make some too.... or not. I remember a couple of baby foods that I really liked when I did the taste test for my son. I surely could buy a couple of jars of something yummy. Wonder could I clean out a pickle or olive jar good enough.... sometimes that vinegar smell lingers on and on. Lots of possibilities...... paulette in sw fla usa On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Peace Roses <Roses4831@msn.com> wrote: > My daughter gives "talks" to school children about the Civil War (she's a > re-enactor). One of the things she has them do to show how the pioneers > made butter is to have them make their own. She brings empty baby food jars > and buys cream for them. They shake the jars until they get butter. So > yes, buying cream to use will get you butter. She doesn't have them mix it > up to get the milk out, but they're happy with what they have. They get to > take them home and show their parents. She said they are so excited to show > their parents that they made butter. > Emma > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: askgranny@juno.com<mailto:askgranny@juno.com> > To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com<mailto:southern-chat@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 7:41 AM > Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Homemade butter > > > CALM DOWN, Smoochie ... You're coming through loud and clear, Missie ! We > used to make butter from cream when I was a kid...just put cream in a jar > and shake it till it turns into butter...Hubby did that the first time I > had him 'whip' cream by shaking it up in a pint jar.....I was preparing > the berries and cooking stove top shortcakes in the kitchen...The cream > was cold, but don't know if room temp would work better....The heavier > the fat content the more butter you'll end up with....Just keep in mind > it'll cost you much more than buying butter already churned....Just shake > it till it clots up into butter globs then dip it out....Add a little > cold water and smush it around to get the extra milk out of it...Add a > little salt....Eat! There won't be very much of it, and you might want to > add just a tiny touch of yellow and red coloring if you want it to look > like store bought......Use the leftover whey to make bread or > whatever....Good luck ! Jeannie T > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > ------------------------------- > 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 >