Kitchenaid + Whipping cream = ?

[Brooke0317]

If you said whipped topping....Well, you wouldn't be wrong. BUT that's not the answer I'm looking for.

I just made butter!!!! And yes, I'm excited over it. :) I now have about 2.5 cups of butter milk and a container of butter and silky smooth hands for who knows how long.

I just put the whipping cream in my mixer, turned it onto medium and le it go until I heard a change in teh mixer sound. Then I turned it on low until I heard milk sloshing around. balled up the butter, drained the milk, mixed it some more-balled butter, drained milk & then kneaded the butter under cold water until the milk was all out of it. :)

This weekend I'm going to use up the butter milk with homemade buttermilk biscuits! YUMMY!

I've been very busy the past couple of weeks. I've made apple cider, apple butter, turkey & noodles, and now butter all from scratch. Well...not the turkey, but the rest I made! :D I'm so proud of myself!

[mlbfanatic0317]

just wait a couple years, and i'll either go and harvest you one from the wild or we will raise our own for eatin! I'm so proud of you. Isn't it wonderful what you can do to take you back to the old days? Old days as in makin your own food, not the appliances that make it so much easier. lol

[mozarkian]

Tried making butter in my stand mixer, and it worked fine, but found that my food processor makes good butter too, and in less time than my old Sunbeam stand mixer.
I save cream until I have a gallon and then make butter. My processor is not huge so it takes about 5 batches to process a gallon of cream. Like you, I can tell by the sound when the butter pulls together. Good stuff, enjoy!

[BonnyLake]

I've made butter on accident a couple of times with that same method - but what I meant to make was just the whipped cream !! :eek: :girl_wacko:

Good for you brooke... nothing says lovin' like somethin from the oven - that you make with your own two hands!

[sissy]

A great big congrats to you Brook.
I've made butter once with my Kitchenaid mixer. I bought some heavy whipping cream just to see if I could do it. And I did, it was great. Just reading your thread made me remember how excited I was too. It only gets better. My Kitchenaid gets used right regular. It does bread very well also. :yes2: Enjoy. Again congrats.
sissy

[bookwormom]

sigh, I know I live behind the moon, no idea exactly what a kitchen aid is, but I make butter by milking a cow, setting the milk in crocks and letting the cream rise. when the milk is like yoghurt, I run my index finger around the edge of the crock and tip it to the side, the cream slides right off, into another container that I keep for cream. Last summer at the fleamarket someone was selling a Kenmore electric churn, for 20 dollars. I would have liked to have it, but DH wanted to haggle the price down to fifteen and so I still prop up a small electric hand mixer in a plastic pail to make butter. you all have a great time "doing". so proud of you .

[sissy]

Bookwormom, A Kitchenaid is a stand mixer. I think one of the best & heavy duty stand mixers. I bet your butter beats ours by a mile. lol
sissy

[sbemt456]

Congrats Brooke, but hunny if ya dont quit that you will have to buy Derek new uniforms. :yes4: It is so nice to see young folks take interest in some of the old skills. I can only imagine what you can do when you get back to the states and can have a garden and all that good stuff. Keep up the good work lady, we are very proud of ya.


Have a great day!

stella

[cwatson]

Congrats on the butter. I make mine the same way (with the kitchenaid, love that thing). The first time I made it (just a couple of months ago) I was so excited I posted here too. The people on this forum are the only ones that understand that kind of excitement :) I love the look on peoples faces when I say well I better get home I have to make some bread and butter today. They say "You mean put some butter on your bread?" Nope I have to make some bread and then make some butter and then I can put that butter on the bread.

I use the cream that rises from our goats milk so I make butter in smaller batches since I have Nigerian Dwarf goats :) Boy do they make some good butter!

Congrats again and enjoy the wonderful fruits of your labor.

[Laura]

http://www.cookingforengineers.com/article/113/Making-Butter

[Grizzy]

Brooke, your words are electric ;)... am so happy to see you learning an enjoying yourself! Jus so ya know.. to a cup of whipping cream you can add 1 Tablespoon of cognac or bourbon:girl_wacko:oooolalaaa an 2 Tablespoons of powdered sugar (sifted). YUM!

~Grizzy~

[BonnyLake]

http://www.cookingforengineers.com/article/113/Making-Butter

Now that's funny! I'd rather have Alton Brown explain it to me LOL :D

[tlag1986]

Sounds like fun. I used to make butter all the time when my husband worked on a dairy. Now we just buy it. Boy your making me wish I had a milking cow!

[Dreamin']

Now you gotta make a loaf of homemade bread to go with it! Mmmm fresh hot bread with homemade butter *Drool*

[grumble]

My arm hurts, and it is y'all's fault. Seemed like making butter would be a good skill to learn, so I bought a pint of whipping cream to give it a try.

I don't have an electric mixer, but I figured, how hard could it be? I mean, 12 yo girls have been making butter since forever, and if they can do it, I can too, right?

Well, now I understand why men in the old days made women make the butter.

FYI, it takes an hour and a half of stirring with a wire whisk.

[Mom5farmboys]

My arm hurts, and it is y'all's fault. Seemed like making butter would be a good skill to learn, so I bought a pint of whipping cream to give it a try.

I don't have an electric mixer, but I figured, how hard could it be? I mean, 12 yo girls have been making butter since forever, and if they can do it, I can too, right?

Well, now I understand why men in the old days made women make the butter.

FYI, it takes an hour and a half of stirring with a wire whisk.

When we made butter with the kids (for fun) we just put whipping cream in a glass jar with tight fitting lid and took turns shaking it.

[grumble]

I started off shaking it in the little carton, but it started to swell and bubbles came out of the seam. Clever person that I am, I decided that maybe cleaning up the heavy cream on the floor wouldn't be a very good learning exercise. So I opted for a bowl and whisk.

Next time the g-kids visit, maybe I'll make them do it. Sounds like pretty good punishment for a kid! <G>