I made my own butter????

I made some a couple of months ago, still got a small pot in the freezer. I happened to be in M&S late one afternoon and they were marking down big pots of cream, only took a quick whirl, rinse, squeeze and I had butter. OH refused to eat it as he prefers his regular stuff (bog standard butter). I have used it for cooking and with bread with my homemade jam & marmalade.

Callistemon21

Rosie51

You don't need a processor, it can be done in a lidded jar, lots of shaking and a really good workout !

Yes, I knew that but didn't feel up to shaking ?

A friend who had frequent access to heavily discounted cream at her local supermarket said she used to sit watching TV and rolling the jar with her feet I did the shaking way once my arms ached for hours!

Oh I like the idea of the Kilner butter churn grannyactivist

Rosie51

You don't need a processor, it can be done in a lidded jar, lots of shaking and a really good workout !

Yes, I knew that but didn't feel up to shaking ?

I have a Kilner butter churn that my grandchildren put to good use every summer. They get so excited when the butter finally materialises. Then it goes on to home made bread along with jam made from fruit we’ve grown on the allotment. Delicious. ?

You don't need a processor, it can be done in a lidded jar, lots of shaking and a really good workout !

Grammy666

Well ... why ?

It was better than pouring a large carton of cream away, that's why!

Well ... why ?

this is a regular item on facebooks reduce your supermarket spend, people buying reduced cream, making butter, some add garlic to it, if you have made more than you need at the moment, then freeze it. for anyone looking for recipes and reducing spending it is a good page to join.

I've just made some butter in the food processor using a large carton of double cream which was left over after visitors. Added some sea salt.
I drained off the buttermilk through a sieve lined with muslin and squeezed the butter in the muslin.
It's in the fridge in a plastic box.
It tastes good but we'll eat it fairly quickly in case it doesn't keep well.

There was rather a lot of washing up afterwards!

Lots of recipes online , I used just cream and salt.
I put a plastic blade on the processor and pulsed for 3/4 minutes.
Put the butter in a sieve and rinsed a few times then shaped and refrigerated.
Easy and delicious.

Thank you NotSpaghetti . I'll take a look at those.

Sorry I can't post a link to the cultured butter article but if you Google it several seem to appear.

Sorry Kate x posted.

Kate1949
Just found these:

www.healthline.com/nutrition/dairy-foods-low-in-lactose

www.baliza.de/en/blog/files/intolerance-lactose-free-butter.html

www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/11/3/551/htm

During butter production, most of the water-soluble components in milk, including lactose, are removed, thereby reducing the lactose content in butter to <0.1%.
Thought I should check properly before I cause problems for your husband!
The last one is very interesting and explains quite a lot about how lactose free dairy is achieved.

Well the only way prices will go down is if people don't buy rip off brands. Once their sales go down so will the price.

Well yes but if he eats butter or cream, he is in the loo straight after (sorry!). If he eats this lactose free, he is fine. Psychological? Maybe.

Lactose free butter, is butter, surely? Lactose is in milk, yes, but butter contains very small amounts of it because it's 80% fat and the whey is where the lactose is. Lots of lactose intolerant people can tolerate butter.
I know it sounds odd!

Would like to have a go Sago . No food processor but have a Kenwood. Know it's a simple procedure but may I have instructions please?

My husband loves butter but in later years has become lactose intolerant. I managed to find lactose free butter and he is delighted and says it tastes the same as butter.

No butter for £1.57 round my way £1.85 is the cheapest upwards
I have t got a food processor though …..a blender any good ?

It sounds to me that the butter tasted in London was over worked and not fresh.
I make it often as a treat Jamie Oliver recipe I do add crushed sea salt it is delicious.

Floradora9 theres nothing unhealthy about butter

Aveline

I've just been reading about cultured butter. Seems that's the in thing. Sounds like a bit of a palaver.

I was given cultured butter with bread in a trendy London restaurant.

I thought it just tasted rancid - horrible. Maybe ‘rancid’ is trendy. I had to ask for some ordinary butter.

I never eat butter so the cost does not bother me . I still feel it is not a healthy option

Aveline can you link the article in the thread, I’d be interested to try it