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How to Make Butter from Cream
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How to Make Your Own Tasty Creamy Butter in Minutes

A Rich tasty and creamy butter

Keyword butter
Prep Time 12 minutes
Total Time 12 minutes
Author White River

Ingredients

  • 600 ml Sour Cream or Double Cream
  • to taste Salt optional
  • You will also need a Jug iced water

Instructions

  1. Take your cream and put it into a mixing bowl.
    Pouring the Cream for the butter

  2. Now whisk it on low to start.  You can either use a machine whisk or a hand whisk. If you don't have a whisk you can put it into a container shake it but it does take a while.

  3. Increase the speed of your whisk and continue to whisk your cream until it turns to butter. You may need to go back to slow again when the butter starts to form.

  4. You should also have some buttermilk with the butter.  Remove the buttermilk and store it as it can be used for lots of different things.

    Final Stage of Butter
  5. Now pour on and rinse your butter in the icy water until it runs clear and free of any buttermilk. This prolongs the butter's life if you don't do this properly the butter will go off in days.
  6. If you are using salt you can add it now.
    How to Make Butter from Cream
  7. Pop your butter into a container and put it in the fridge it will last for up to 2 to 3 weeks.

  8. Cool that's it now you are ready to make whatever you want it for.

Recipe Notes

European butter is made from sour cream and American butter is made from double/heavy cream. The process is the same.