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- Feed Preview Comments on: How to Make Butter In a Jar
By: Jackie Currie
In reply to King P.. You're welcome! I'm glad you gave it a try!
By: Jackie Currie
In reply to BT. Thank you for your very kind comment! Please let me know if it works with the ice cube! I'm curious!
By: BT
In reply to happyhooligans. We did this in 4th grade with an amazing teacher who always had something new and creative in her...
By: King P.
Awesome recipe and directions. I honestly didn't know making butter was so simple and easy! I tried it for the first time and I has fairly happy with my butter. Straining the buttermilk was the h...
By: King
Awesome recipe and directions. I honestly didn't know making butter was so simple and easy! I tried it for the first time and I has fairly happy with my butter. Straining the buttermilk was the h...
By: Jackie Currie
In reply to agreso. I'm glad our post helped you get it right!
By: agreso
Tried many times before but following your steps was able to make butter first time with good taste. Thank you.
By: Jackie Currie
In reply to Barbara Street. Thank you!
By: Susie Porterfield
When I was a little girl we lived way out in the country. We had a cow and other assorted farm animals and my grandma would make butter out of the cream from the cow. Of course, she didn't make i...
By: Jackie Currie
In reply to Sienna Brown. Great thinking Sienna!
By: Sienna Brown
Wow this was so cool. I didn't have a jar with a lid so I used a protien shaker with a metal spring inside. It was so simple and taste delish! Thanks for posting
By: Margeaux
This was so satisfying to turn my jersey cows cream into butter! So easy, thank you!
By: Jackie Currie
In reply to Michelle. I've never tried freezing homemade butter, so I'm really not sure, Michelle. Sorry!
By: Michelle
Can this butter be frozen!
By: happyhooligans
In reply to Elena. Oh, great! So glad you had success, Elena!
By: Elena
Tried many times before but following your steps was able to make butter first time with good taste. Thank you.
By: Lana
Hallo where can I buy 35% fat heavy cream? I leave in Miami Florida and can not find it.
By: happyhooligans
In reply to yndi. You can give it a try, but I believe you need regular cream with a high fat content to make butter.
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to her for daycare. I’ve tried so many of the activities with my class but our favorite is her butter making activity. We’ve done the activity so many times that we actually bought our own c...
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How to Make Amazing Homemade Butter In a Jar
By: happyhooligans
In reply to Deanna Hodge. Hi Deanna! I've just asked in a blogging group filled with parents and teachers, and the teachers...
By: Deanna Hodge
What will happen if you can't rinse the butter?
By: Fred J
I don't know how you could have explained this process any simpler. Reading some of the comments makes me wonder about some people. I just finished pouring some heavy cream into a mason jar that ...
By: happyhooligans
In reply to Roshni. I don't believe it would be the same, Roshni. The cream I use has a much higher concentration of fat in...
By: Roshni
I wanted to know if the cream you used is the same cream that can be collected after boiling milk. A heavy layer that settles on top after it boils and cools down.
By: cloo
In reply to Riley. It was satisfying to see and feel the buttermilk run out of the blob. I did this project in kindergarten...
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How to make homemade butter in a jar
By: happyhooligans
In reply to Mae. No, you need to use whipping cream (also known as heavy cream or 35% m.f. cream), Mae. It's the amount of ...
By: Riley
Amazing!!! Ive done this before but this time I added cinnamon and sugar with a few grains of salt.... Mmmm. Wiii be having oatmeal to go with it tomorrow!!
By: Mae
In reply to happyhooligans. Hi, I know ive been asking a lot but can you use half and half?
By: Mae
OMG THIS IS AMAZING!!!! My whole family loved this. Its was fun but im a weak tween girl SOOO.... My mom had to shake it but stil amazing. We made it in a large mason jar really quick and split i...
By: Mae
In reply to happyhooligans. Wow that was quick!! Thanks. Me and my mom want to make it but im not sure if we'll eat a lot o...
By: happyhooligans
In reply to Mae. Sure. Make as much or as little as you need, Mae! Salt it after you've rinsed and drained it. You won't ne...
By: Mae
Can I make a tiny but just to test it out in a baby food jar? and also! when do i add the salt? Please reply soon.
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Butter can be made from cream. Pasta can be made from flour and eggs. Bread takes a few simple ingredients such as flour, yeast, and water. Yogurt can be made easily in your crockpot.
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Jars – Awesome for storage of course, but you could also make a lantern, a nebular jar, a tornado in a jar, or even butter!]
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Did you ever do the experiment in childhood where you take a baby food jar and fill it about half way with heavy whipping cream and then shake it forever? Eventually you get homemade butter!
By: happyhooligans
In reply to Alison. I've heard that at room temperature the process will happen more quickly.
By: Alison
In reply to john. I have seen someone else mention that (leaving the cream out the night before) to enhance flavor.
By: Amy
In reply to happyhooligans. Thank you so much for your tip. I am definitely going to make this again. Thanks!
By: happyhooligans
In reply to Amy. Hmmm... Did you use 35% m.f. cream, Amy? The only reason I can think for it not working is that perhaps you...
By: Amy
I made this this morning, what did I do wrong because I did not get butter and I tried the blender, the mixer and my food processor..
By: Dee M Hernandez
I can't believe it my family used to work so hard to make butter ? Now this looks so easy !!
By: Betty shoemaker
In reply to Misty. I use to churn butter in a little daisy churn for my Mom. She would buy cream from a farmer friend. She lo...
By: Karen @ Raising Little Superheroes
I never thought about making my own butter before. What a great idea and fun activity for my kids. They will love shaking the jar. Thanks for sharing!
By: happyhooligans
In reply to Locogato1419. Glad you enjoyed it!
By: Locogato1419
This is AMAZING!!!! It was easy to follow and you describe every step perfectly!!!
By: Jusanonymouswhatever
In reply to john. That's the milk you are referring to. From milk you get the cream, from cream you get the butter.
By: Katel
In reply to Joanne. I do this a couple times a year. I whip a quart of cream and usually get about 1 1/2 - 2 cups of butter (...
By: BL
I've had comparatively quick butter success using a Tupperware-type dressing mixer - the plastic bottle with the agitator disk in it and a tight lid, designed for shaking vinegar and oil into an ...
By: jeff pizel
In reply to Chris. HI , I have been eating about a Lb. of butter a week for ever ( I am 73) ... I take a stick of Butter and ...
By: cmccoy
In reply to Holos. Yes! Let the whipping cream come to room temp before shaking and it will make much faster...around 5 minu...
By: Holos
If you buy the cream at the grocer's choose the oldest available. Older cream, especially room temperature, turns to butter faster.
By: Charlene Jones
We do this every year at Thanksgiving. The kids love taking turns, it gets passed around until everyone has had a turn shaking it. My sister started the tradition and I'm sure it will continue ye...
By: happyhooligans
In reply to Hillary. It will keep for a couple of days if refrigerated, Hillary.
By: Hillary
This may have been asked before, but how long will the butter keep?
By: Jaime
If you're planning to use the marbles - watch out! Our marbles caused the jar to break - whipped cream/butter flew all over the room and my 5 year old, who had been shaking the jar slipped in the...
By: happyhooligans
In reply to Teressa. I'm not sure about the missing steps you're referring to, Teressa.
By: Teressa
There seems to be quite a few ingredients and steps missing from this "recipe".
By: happyhooligans
In reply to waynette sharon. There isn't buttermilk in the recipe, Waynette. It's just cream that you put in the jar. When y...
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By: waynette sharon
Why is there no mention of buttermilk in the recipe? Need to know how much buttermilk & when to put in.
By: karen
In reply to Carol Frazier Shepherd. Not sure about the tupperware container, more chance of the lid popping off. How about a ...
By: happyhooligans
In reply to Richelle. I'm not sure what the ratio would be, Richelle, but a common substitute for buttermilk is to add a bit...
By: Richelle
this is awesome! I remember doing this as a school experience way back in elementary school during thanksgiving season. My question is, what is the ratio from butter to buttermilk? We are station...
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By: Cheryl
In reply to nadene. How can something made with margarine be called "home-made butter"?
By: happyhooligans
In reply to Kate. I really don't know, Kate. You could hit Google, and see if you can find an answer there though. Sorry!
By: Kate
I remember doing this about 25 years ago using a film canister with just a little cream to make a little lump of butter. If you have little hands and don't want to use glass, a plastic container ...
By: Trish
This looks so simple and I think the kids are going to love doing it. I have always wanted to make butter to go with my homemade bread.
By: Dugar
In reply to nadene. My mother made butter like Nadine's recipe and it was awesome!! I may try the other as a project for my g...
By: Karie
In reply to Peggy luther. Peggy, I read all the comments, and someone mentioned this butter makes great cookies.
By: happyhooligans
In reply to rosalynd. 10 minutes is how long it usually takes us without marbles.
By: happyhooligans
In reply to Peggy luther. I'm not sure, Peggy. I've never tried baking with it.
By: happyhooligans
In reply to Pam. I think it might interfere with the process, Pam. I would add it at the end. It's easy to stir it in for eve...
By: Ona Lee
In reply to Mindy Nickel Gates. My butter churn has wood for agitation. A clothes pin is a great idea!
By: Pam
In reply to happyhooligans. Can the salt just be added at the start of the process or will that keep it from 'churning' into ...
By: Peggy luther
Can this be used then for baking cookies.?
By: rosalynd
We are doing this now, boy is it a lot of work. How long can you expect without marbles in a mason jar? My arms are sore.... HAHA THANKS
By: Emily B
The marble idea is genius! We've done this with the kids before but they got bored halfway through.
By: mwells
As a young kid back in the olden days my Mon would be cooking breakfast and my dad would be shaking a quart jar of cream for fresh butter. We had our own cow and cream was abundant. This is wonde...
By: Susan schmidt
I have made butter in my blender and it works just as well but this might be fun to do with kids!
By: Diane
In reply to Brenda. I don't think I would use the marbles. Marbles could/will break the glass or chip it. I guess I rather jus...
By: Jannell Leonard
I'm 76 years old, so I remember when butter was made in a crockery churn with a top made of wood with a hole in it for the churn paddle. Churn held about 4 gal of milk and you sat down with the c...
By: Sheri Holmes
Fun to see you kiddos surprised by the buttermaking process. When I was about 3 years old, we lived across the street from a lady who had a cow. Every Wednesday, she churned butter, and I helped....
By: Mindy Nickel Gates
Instead of a marble, you can use an all wood clothespin. You don't have to worry about breaking the jar, but you still get extra agitation.
By: Sandra Donsbach
we use to milk a cow and took what I called scum of top and put little salt and shook it made great butter ,
By: Helen Hall
One of my aunts used to make butter this way when I was a little girl, about 45 years ago. I've wanted to try it myself, as I think of her often now that I'm grown. I remember her shaking and sha...
By: Cindy Farris Gruver
That a great science experiment! That being said, having grown up with homemade butter, no thanks to eating it! As a child, I hated the butter milk oozing out of the butter. (All these years late...
By: Kathy
I'm SOOO excited to try this! I found a recipe for homemade slow cooker yogurt last night & now I find a recipe for BUTTER! AWESOME! THANK YOU! Just one question though; can you freeze it?
By: happyhooligans
In reply to pame. It's delicious without salt, but you can certainly add some if you want to.
By: pame
You put some salt con it? I guess...I mean other way its not yummy.... But love the idea.
By: happyhooligans
In reply to Joanne. I'm really not sure, Joanne. We've never measured. Sorry!
By: Joanne
Quick question. How much butter would you get from a cup of whipping cream? I'm really keen to try this with the boys and we need butted fur a baking recipe we were planning on making today anywa...
By: nadene
I make homemade butter and love it.. here is the way I make it.. 1 pound of cheap margarine-room temp, 1 cup of buttermilk, 3/4 cup oil and salt to taste.. mix all together .,. I use a food proce...
By: Nic*
Never just pour away the buttermilk though. It is super beauty stuff. You can drink it (if you don't like the raw taste add some flavour like chocolate or vanilla) it's full of good acids helping...
By: Angie
We leave our fresh cream (skimmed off the milk from our Jersey cows) out on the counter to come to room temperature before we put a quart or so in our Kitchen Aid mixer and use the wire whip to b...
By: happyhooligans
In reply to Chris. I can't exactly understand your question, but I'll take a guess. It doesn't keep long as there are no pres...
By: happyhooligans
In reply to Roxanne. Add the salt after, Roxanne. It might interfere with the process. Plus, you'll want to taste the butter ...
By: happyhooligans
In reply to Misty. When you're finished, you're left with a lump of butter in a pool of white liquid. That liquid is the butt...
By: happyhooligans
In reply to Cristina Archuleta. Yep! You'll get butter! :)
By: Cristina Archuleta
In reply to Kassy. That was my question .. is there another alternative to shaking it instead? So if I beat it with a hand mi...
By: Misty
In reply to Pamela Wallace. That's what I was thinking where does the buttermilk come into play it was mentioned in the ingre...
By: Roxanne
Sounds so easy I love it. 2 questions can I add the salt prior to shaking and can I add passion fruit juice to flavor the butter?
By: Chris
How long does this keep? Doesn't recto be refrOperated?...we hate hard butter in our house!!!
By: happyhooligans
In reply to Valerie. They add extra agitation, and speed up the process. Completely optional, Valerie.
By: happyhooligans
In reply to Danny. Can you get "heavy cream" from a goat, Danny? The fat content is key. You couldn't do this with regular co...
By: Danny
My daughter-in-law is allergic to dairy; will this work with goat milk?
By: Valerie
What's the purpose of the marbles? Just curious.
By: Samantha Huntley
We used to do this as kids growing up in VT. A dear friend always made butter in the spring and stirred in fresh finely chopped strawberries! DIVINE ;)
By: happyhooligans
In reply to Brandie. The butter itself repels the water, Brandie. The liquid rinses away, and you're left with your "clean" b...
By: Brandie
How do you 'rinse' the butter without ruining it?
By: happyhooligans
In reply to john. Maybe you're thinking of homemade sour cream, John?
By: john
WOW! I thought the cream had to set out over-night to sour before starting!
By: Pamela Wallace
Buttermilk? Where did that come from?
By: Kelly
I remember doing this as a 4th grade science project. We each had our own little half pint container of heavy cream that we shook until we had butter. It was fun. Definitely going to do this as a...
By: 910m
Caution the kids to not lick the marbles or quick as a wink the marbles will be in the tummy!
By: happyhooligans
In reply to Rattlin Chains. Store-bought heavy cream is what we use. :)
By: Rattlin Chains
Can you use store bought heavy cream, or do you need unpasteurized cream?
By: jacque
I used to be a teacher and we would make this in baby food jars when we were studying Pioneers/Westward Expansion. However, anytime we put marbles in the baby food jars and shook them we had lots...
By: happyhooligans
In reply to Carol Frazier Shepherd. Someone commented earlier on my fb page saying they use a tupperware container, Carol. Yo...
By: Carol Frazier Shepherd
Does the jar have to be glass? I'm not allowed to have glass in my classroom.
By: Jan Stark
Can you let me know how long it will keep just plain nothing added. Cheers Jan
By: Amanda H.
We have done this before and they kids loved it! said it was the best butter they have ever eaten. A tip to speed up the process - add 3 or 4 clean marbles to the jar. Helps the process go faster...
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of all ages will get a kick out of making their own butter with nothing more than jar full of
By: Cathy jenkins
Been doing this with my preschool classes for 30 years. We typically do this in preparation of our thanksgiving feast. We also make cornbread. Delicious combo!
By: Kassy
Just about every time I try to make whipped cream I end up beating it into butter.
By: happyhooligans
In reply to Barbara Street. Ok, I have to do this with the hooligans. With fresh bread machine dinner rolls! Mmmmmm. Must put...
By: happyhooligans
In reply to Barbara Street. How fun! I've never done this with the Hooligans! Just with my own fam and friends. I think we'll...
By: Barbara Street
Awesome, Jackie!! We do this each year at preschool when we are doing a Life in the Country theme. We use babyfood jars and in addition to the heavy cream, we put a marble in it. We do small grou...
By: happyhooligans
In reply to Jennifer. Perfect timing, indeed! And what's funny is that this wasn't even supposed to be posted! It's a really ...
By: Jennifer
What do you think the total shaking time was? This is awesome! My husband and I were just talking about figuring out how to make butter. How very timely!
By: Brenda
Jackie! What a great idea. Is it cheaper then butter? I sure hope you have lots of fans reading your blog cause I sure enjoy it.