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Real Food, Real Life: City Girl Churns Butter

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This might be the coolest blog post I’ve written in a long time, if not ever. It’s all about the magical, real essence of butter.

What led me to write about butter? Well, it’s been a journey to say the least.

Like many others, for the longest time I thought buying items at the grocery store labeled ‘fat-free’ was actually benefiting my body. Turns out, that’s not so much the case.

It wasn’t until I was assigned a project to work with a local gardener in the area where I learned differently. She feeds her family with vegetables grown from the garden in the backyard and foods from her cows from the field. She told me that if I’m eating butter from a plastic container, I might as well be eating the container itself. That’s how close the ingredients in each are. It resonated with me, so I started to use only buy real butter–wrapped in paper!

It’s been about a year since that revelation, and I’ve now dug deeper into what I eat and it’s even more real than the packaged real butter you buy from the store.

Real Food, Real Life: City Girl Churns Butter

This might be the coolest blog post I’ve written in a long time, if not ever. It’s all about the magical, real essence of butter.What led me to write about butter? Well, it’s been a journey to say the least.Like many others, for the longest time I...

Author: Lehman's

Ingredients

2 or 2 1/2 48 oz. containers heavy whipping cream
Salt (optional)

Directions

Allow the cream to reach room temperature (about 72°F) and let sit for a few hours to ripen slightly.
Pour cream into the butter churn and secure the lid tightly.
Turn the handle continuously until the cream passes through the stages of frothy, firm, and coarse.
Continue churning until fine grains of butter form in the buttermilk.
Keep churning until a ball of butter separates from the buttermilk.
Drain the buttermilk and save for baking, if desired.
Rinse the butter thoroughly with cold water until the water runs clear.
Press the butter while rinsing to remove all remaining buttermilk.
Transfer butter to a bowl and remove as much water as possible.
Add salt, herbs, or garlic if desired.
Store in a covered crock, airtight container, or wrapped in waxed paper.