Mmmm home made butter

[Pitchy]

Made a couple jars today.

[Bill in Oregon]

Dang, Lenn, it has been a long time since I had any o' that golden delight! How long did it take to get curds with that swell little churn you built?
Boy, I hope you had a loaf of bread in the oven. Is there anything better in the world?

[Pitchy]

Thanks Bill, took about 15 minutes.
Couple tips, let the whipping cream warm to room temp and put a couple marbles in the jar to agitate.
Norma`s making bread as we speak

[GunnyMack]

Next generation is where you attach a cordless drill to the crankshaft and have butter in 3 minutes!
One year up in Quebec we had an old egg beater without the handle, (my 2 buddies had birthdays 3 days apart) had to mix the cake batter so we hooked up the Dewalt 18volt to the egg beater.

[Pitchy]

I see some use a blender but that`s not the old way, have ya seen my Maytag model.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPvL8BW ... e=youtu.be

[Mainehunter]

I'm drooling as I type this....

[Pitchy]

Here ya go fellers, home made bread and chilly.

[Bill in Oregon]

Lenn, can I come over? Purty please?

[M. M. Wright]

When I was a kid we always had a cow that Daddy milked so we had real butter, cream and lots of milk. Mostly Mama made biscuits but sometimes we got rolls and she always made a loaf of bread too. Homemade jam or jelly. I could drown in saliva if I don't quit. Esperanza is making Corned beef and cabbage right now so I gotta go.

[Pitchy]

And it was good, today i`ve been thinking about the times we`re in and watched a old war movie.
It spun my mind back to the ways folks used to get by and care about each other so we made some butter the old way.
I could go on for ever about how sick a portion of our great country has become and how important that us old gray beards carry on with the old ways and stand up for right because in the end we will survive.

[piller]

Homemade bread and Sand Plum jelly is one of life's true pleasures.

[Bill in Oregon]

Piller, tell us about sand plums
Lenn, I believe you are right about keeping the old ways alive.

[piller]

Sand plums grow in the semi desert soil out in Western Kansas and Oklahoma. They are a bush with lots of thorns. The fruit is a red plum which looks like a beautiful large red cherry and is practically inedible until cooked with a lot of sugar. The jelly is a red jelly that has a flavor which must be experienced since there is nothing else even close to it. My Grandmother had grape vines with Concord and another variety, mulberry trees, peach trees, apple trees, and cherry trees. The entire extended family liked the Sand plum jelly the best. https://kelliskitchen.org/2012/07/sand- ... and-jelly/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prunus_angustifolia

[Merle]

making butter was one of my childhood chores - the other was making lye soap .....

[Grizz]

fresh butter, fresh bread, nothing better to accompany a good baseball game on the tube radio

[Pitchy]

Made this small butter press today.

[piller]

My Grandmother had a glass jar with wooden paddles attached to a crank on the lid. It held about a gallon. That thing made butter pretty fast.

[piller]

It looked somewhat like this, but about 4 times the size.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Rustic-Antiq ... FmEALw_wcB

[Pitchy]

Yep i have one just like you said, the big one.
We only make small batches though.

[Bill in Oregon]

Liking your press, too, Lenn. Gives a professional-looking cube!
My folks used to talk about the early margarine that came white, but with a pack of yellow food coloring. You had to mix it yourself. Seems the dairy industry didn't want people thinking margarine was butter.

[Pitchy]

The press didn`t work very well, must of missed something in the plan
The other press works the best.

[Pitchy]

Made this mold yesterday, it works good but there`s a trick to using these molds.
Soak the mold in ice water for 30 minutes before putting the butter in then freeze it solid and it will come out easier.

[Merle]

Grandma never used a press, or a mold. She just hand squeezed into a rough baseball shape...

[Pitchy]

Most probably did, molds are for special occasions.
Made this Oak 4 inch mold this morning.

[Grizz]

I've never made butter, but I got a "ride" in my sailboat running up the ourside coast of Washington. A tide rip that bounced the boat so hard for so long that the whipping cream got whipped. But didn't make it to the butter. Maybe that's not possible.

[Pitchy]

I've never made butter, but I got a "ride" in my sailboat running up the ourside coast of Washington. A tide rip that bounced the boat so hard for so long that the whipping cream got whipped. But didn't make it to the butter. Maybe that's not possible.

Ha good one Grizz, if it had a couple marbles in it it probably would of made it.