Lately, we have been trying to find ways to make our own ingredients at home for less than what they cost in supermarkets. With the growing cost of food, and living in general, I think it is now more important than ever that we do things the way our grandparents and great grandparents did things. With that said, our most recent trial has been making butter at home. It shocked me how easy this was. With one ingredient, you can make two separate ingredients that are both very expensive at the moment and save yourself some money. 

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Ingredients:

• 500 ml of room-temperature whipping cream
• A 1L jar with a water-tight lid
• Ice
• Disposable gloves (optional)

Yeild:

With this recipe I got 207g of butter ans 225mL of buttermilk from 500g of cream.

Method:

1. Add all of the cream to your jar and seal the lid.
2. Shake the jar.
3. Shake the jar some more.
4. And shake the jar some more.
5. After a few minutes or so you will notice the cream has thicked and its getting harder to shake. Don’t give up.
6. When you can’t shake the cream any more, turn the jar upside down and thump it onto a folded tea towel to shift the thickened mixture to one end. You will start to see an air gap at each end after you have thumped it a few times. this is your que to flip it over and keep going.
7. keep turning and thumping until it becomes easy to shake again, this can take a while so keep at it. You will see a white liquid and the yellow butter form.
8. Seperate the butter from the buttermilk and place the butter into and ice bath to clean it and firm it up a little.
9. Use your hands to form the butter into one solid piece and squeeze all the water out. The gloves help to keep your hands clean.
10. Shape the butter and wrap in grease proof baking paper or simply put it in a container with a lid.
11. Pour the buttermilk into a jar and store in the fridge.

I used the buttermilk to make pancakes for my kids the next morning and the butter will be used in baking over the coming weekends.