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Churning

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 6 ingredients

  1. Water
  2. Salt
  3. 3 lb. of butter
  4. Cream
  5. Must
  6. Milk
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Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. A great many different churns are sold, but the secrets of good butter making are simple and applicable to all kinds.
  2. The first is scrupulous cleanliness.
  3. Everything must be scalded daily with boiling water, rinsed with cold water, and used wet.
  4. Every utensil must be set out in the open air every day.
  5. The second is the right temperature for the cream.
  6. A thermometer is absolutely necessary, and must register 550 to 6o° Fahr.
  7. when churning begins.
  8. The desired temperature is usually attained by adding a little warm water or icy cold water when it is necessary to modify the temperature.
  9. Butter, under these conditions, should come in about 1 5 minutes.
  10. It is then washed quite free from butter milk, usually with cold water, before the butter is removed from the churn.
  11. Salt is generally added in the proportion of from |- to 1 oz.
  12. for each 3 lb.
  13. of butter.
  14. It should be dried and finely powdered.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Kitchen thermometer