Wow

[karohemd]

How to make butter at home very easily...

I've been following kayotickitchen's recipes and photography for some time and her recipes sound usually very tasty indeed (ifa bit too precise for my liking but each to their own) but this is a fantastic revelation.
Too bad I don't have a food processor (at least not a big one) or I would try this.

Comments

[kaberett.livejournal.com]

Ooh - thanks for the recommendation!

Tangentially relatedly - we have a surplus of apples here at the moment (because of A Tree), but I lack an Apfelkuchen recipe (Gretel Beer - unsurprisingly - doesn't include one, and similarly it's not something my Grossmutti makes, but I don't dare attempt Strudelteig just yet!) - do you have a preferred version, and if so, may I nick it? :)

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

I don't bake, I'm afraid so don't have any recipes. :o(
Firstly, I don't have an oven here but I also didn't bake when I had one in Germany. I'm a spontaneous cook and with baking you need to be precise, measure stuff etc. and you can't add a random ingredient half the way through. ;o)

Personally, I love upside down ones.

[kaberett.livejournal.com]

Woe!

I shall have to Send Some E-mails, then...

(Does this mean I'm supposed to attempt some upside-down Apfelkuchen for the next party we both attend? :) )

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

I bet deborah_c knows a good one or two.

I certainly wouldn't mind!

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Randomly, I just found a recipe (http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/?p=864#content) from kayotickitchen.

[whiskeylover.livejournal.com]

You could always try an English apple tart-

Slice the apples, arrange on a shallow cake tin, squeeze lemon juice over them, sprinkle with sugar, add a couple of cloves & top with puff pastry. Bake.
Enjoy...

As for Strudel, you'd normally chop the apples relatively finely, add some sugar & cinnamon, wrap in a couple of layers of thin pastry (a couple of layers of filo might work) & bake

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Strudel damnit, that's what I could have made.

Anyway. I have an apple cake recipe but don't know if it's the same as Apfelkuchen. I also now have apple pie :D

[ginasketch.livejournal.com]

At first I thought "meh. why make butter when you can buy it."

Then I looked.

I wanna try it!

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Many things are better homemade than shop bought, but some of them are just a little tedious. This method is superb, though.

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

I may have to try it - I bake my own bread (but in a breadmaker) and this falls into the same "piece of piss" category!

[echo-echo.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmm. Hi, I don't know you at all but can I visit when you make bread and butter! :D

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Are you trying to pick up girls in my LJ?

[echo-echo.livejournal.com]

I wasn't even sure they were a girl! I just like the idea of fresh bread and butter. :D

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

I made inadvertent butter several times when my mum taught me to make cream cake many years ago :)

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Heh. I knew that when you overwork cream it can get odd and lumpy (like that crumbled stage in the photos), what I didn't know was that you could perfectly usable butter when you continue.

[susanofstohelit.livejournal.com]

huh, I may have to try this. the only ingredients on the butter in my fridge are cream and milk so I'm assuming it would keep just as well, and cream is significantly less expensive than butter right now.

if your little food processor has enough power to run for a while, I don't see why it wouldn't work just cutting down the amount of cream.

(edited because cost accounting has killed my grammar for today ;-)

[sithrose.livejournal.com]

You can also do it with a standard hand-held mixer. I've made whipped cream and butter both with those, it takes about 15 or so minutes at most, usually. And you don't really need to measure out the cream specifically, just put in cream and beat until it's smooth and solid.

[susanofstohelit.livejournal.com]

about what ratio of butter do you get for cream?

[cabd.livejournal.com]

Dunno precisely, but its always way more than you're expecting.

[sea-of-flame.livejournal.com]

Alternatively: give cream to a pair of overly-energetic children, tightly sealed in a tupperware, and demand they shake it for scientific experimentation...

*looks suspiciously at mother*

(Yes, you can make butter in this way without any fancy equipment, it just takes a lot of graft ;)

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

[echo-echo.livejournal.com]

Yup, the old butter churn and paddle. I guess that's how it was traditionally made though I wouldn't have liked to have been the one doing the churning. :)

[vyvyan.livejournal.com]

You don't need a food processor. I've made butter from left over cream in a jam jar before. Just shake it for half an hour, and all of a sudden it all turns into butter (with buttermilk, which you can add to stew). Press the buttermilk out of the butter with a spoon, add salt if you like - and it's just the same as ordinary butter.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

That sounds like too much work. ;o)

[cabd.livejournal.com]

I make butter when I see cream on ridiculously cheap offer at the supermarket. Its a doddle, really is; goes into the kenwood chef, separates out into butter and buttermilk (of which more soon...), take the butter and run it under a tap to get all the milk solids that'll come out, salt it (keeps better), pat it, job done. Freezes well, or use it fresh.

Now buttermilk is good for scones, or, better, add a wee bit of yeast, a sprinkling of sugar, and put it into a plastic pop bottle. Ferment it till it gets a little pressure, and you have a beverage not a million miles away from a traditional Shetland drink called blaand. I love it, ellie hates it.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

That sounds more like Mongolia than Shetland. ;o) I'm not sure I'd like it, either.

[whethergal.livejournal.com]

I'd totally use this to make Gorgonzola butter.. if anyone I ate with on a regular bass liked blue cheese. ;)

Melted on steak.. mmmmm...!

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

It is a big shame we do not live any closer to each other and that the cooking plan in Dallas didn't work out. :o(

[whethergal.livejournal.com]

I agree completely!

Oh and.. er.. *basis*. *blush*

[echo-echo.livejournal.com]

Haha, another one of your food things to try. :)

The roast veg and rice is now a staple on my menu. And I do remember being a kid at school and them serving the most AMAZING butter. I have never tasted anything like it so I'm kind of hoping that this might have been the process.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Well, this isn't mine.

Heh, this was one of my "argh, I have too much veg and need to get rid of it" recipes.