Have you eaten butter straight from a butter churn and , if so, how did it compare to store bought?
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My ex , during his childhood, would travel to his grandparent’s house for Thanksgiving. They lived on a farm and grew all their own food and smoked their hams from their pigs in a smokehouse.
He told me they’d put a plate in the center of the table and on this plate was a “mound” of freshly churned butter that he said was out of this world on her homemade rolls . Anyone else had this butter?
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I tasted it like that one time in Mississippi. I went with a friend to visit some of his relatives. His aunt had freshly-churned butter that she served with home-made biscuits. (That was also the first time I had seen biscuits baked in a cast-iron skillet, a technique which I subsequently adopted). Delicious!
Made in a Churn like this! My ex was brought up in the dairy business and her dad had a churn like this to make butter, for Sunday meals.
Oh, it was yummy, much better than store bought and you could add the salt to what you wanted.
We made butter at school with LuckyGuy’s method. It was yummy!
My parents have a glass churn like the one Willie linked above. We made butter in it a few times when I was little. I don’t remember it, though. I would like to do it again.
Yes. It cannot be beat. It doesn’t have water content like commercially-produced butter.It isn’t salted and I add salt because I prefer it to be a bit salty. I used to buy “mounds” of freshly churned butter from the Amish. I haven’t found anything like that where I now live. My family-owned supermarket in my last state of residence sold fresh Amish butter. If you get a chance to try it, do. It was very expensive….more than twice the price of the mass-produced butter.
In Home Ec in 7th grade we made butter from heavy cream by shaking it up, and it was delicious. I’ve done it a few times since for “homemade” butter. Mostly, I did it those times when I didn’t want to buy a huge thing of butter, and I needed milk for a recipe as well. I don’t usually have butter in the house.
My ex ate the fresh butter around 1947 and it was his grandmother’s so I assume it was one of the big wooden churns. She lived until 101 whatever that has to do with anything. And that had to do with a nurse’s aide which also resulted in the death of my ex’s mother at age 96.
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