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Homemade Butter

Serves 4-6

  • 1.5 cups whipping cream (chilled)
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This recipe comes to us from St. Michael's Orthodox School in Santa Rosa, CA, where the students make Irish soda bread and homemade butter ever year in honor of St. Brigid.

Pour chilled whipping cream into a chilled wide mouth quart sized jar with a tight fitting lid.

Secure the lid and shake the jar until it “butters”. This will take about twenty
minutes and a great deal of patience and shaking.

When the cream butters, you will have a solid mass and “buttermilk”. Shake
the jar a few more times. Pour off the buttermilk. It does not taste like
cultured buttermilk from the store! This buttermilk is actually sweet and
very, very tasty. Many children have been amazed at the wonderful taste of
“real milk”.

Put the butter in a bowl and salt it if you like.

This is delicious on the soda bread.