Home Made Butter

I'm on a "Home-Made" kick if you can't tell....One of my friends told me she makes her own butter...so of course I had to try it. I have made it before...in 2nd grade.
So we just got some cream, put it in a jar, and shook it like a Polaroid picture.
(Until we got tired and then stuck it in a bowl and mixed it with the hand mixer.)
And-don't laugh-I didn't know that was where buttermilk came from! I thought it was THE neatest thing when suddenly it started to look like it was curdling and then milk started to come off of the butter! No Way! Pour the buttermilk off...

I also learned that you HAVE to rinse the buttermilk off the butter or the butter will go bad.
Also, the buttermilk that you get goes bad quickly...like in12 hours...so you have to use it right away. Luckily my dad came over that day and just grabbed it and drank it when I told him it was buttermilk-he grew up milking cows. I don't know.

So here it is! Butter and Buttermilk! Woot Woot!

It was delicious! Best butter ever. I swear we ate the whole thing just on saltine crackers. It was too good to cook with.

I don't think I would ever make it again unless I found cream for very cheap because it was a little bit more than buying cubes from the store. And I don't know what I would do with the buttermilk besides make my dad drink it.

It was fun and the girls learned something new (and me too) And so I don't regret it, but it just isn't cost effective unless I find cream for very cheap.