Make-A-Meal Mondays: Homemade Butter

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Although it happened over fifty years ago, I still remember licking the cream off the cardboard caps that sealed the bottles of milk that the milkman had delivered to my grandmother’s house. 

These days, most of us buy all of our groceries at the store, including milk and butter.  And, because of the push many years ago to replace butter with “margarine” or other butter-like spreads…which more recent health studies show are probably worse for us than the natural product…many children these days have no idea what real butter tastes like. 

Take this opportunity to make some real butter at home with your child!

HOMEMADE BUTTER

You will need: 1 cup heavy whipping cream, electric mixer and a large bowl.

1.   Pour the cream into the bowl and beat on medium till stiff peaks form…about 1-2 minutes.  This is REAL WHIPPED CREAM!  Taste some for an out-of-this-world treat!

2.   Continue beating…about 4-8 minutes…and soon the curds will separate from the whey.  You could sing “Little Miss Muffet” with your child while you are doing this.

3.   Pour off the whey and you will be left with a lump of pure butter.

4.   Enjoy with crackers, bread or toast.

5.   Put in a covered container and store in the fridge.

6.   Instead of using an electric mixer, you could put the cream in a glass jar with a lid and shake…but this will take between 5-30 minutes and little hands might get tired.

Cooking with young children is only one of the many activities that builds self-esteem, develops pre-literacy skills and creates a life-long parent-child bond.  If you are looking for more child-friendly healthful recipes or other educational fun-filled activities, grab a copy of my new book for parents and teachers of preschoolers, now on half-price sale with FREE shipping till March 9th, at my website.

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15 thoughts on “Make-A-Meal Mondays: Homemade Butter”

  2. Sounds great to do! I’d love to learn how to make butter 😀
    Thank you for your comment last week concerning raising kids. I am happy to be building a steady relationship with my mum from now 🙂

    Hope your weekend went well!

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    • Thanks for stopping by again, KellyAnn.
      There are so many fun and easy recipes to do with kids…and most are so delicious (like this one) that someone without children would be happy to make them.
      I was actually really sick this weekend and didn’t post…first days I missed in months. 😦

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  4. What an original idea to teach us how to make butter… Excellent idea. Thank you both; Viv and Nancy for encouraging others to join the blog hop! 🙂
    I’m glad we all are blogging buddies; buddies who actually reciprocate… Nancy wrote a great post on the 7 things that all bloggers should remember to do. So true!
    Eliz

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  6. Love this idea. I am making bread today and how fun would it be to have homemade butter too. Thank you! I am always looking for real homemade and family activities.

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    • Hi Camille,
      Thank you so much for stopping by…I also love homemade…when my children were small and I operated a home daycare, we baked bread at least twice a week…each child, as soon as they could sit at the table, would help with the mixing and pouring…then each would get a small piece of dough to make their “own” bread…which they took home to share with their family later that day! Breadmaking is so basic, elemental, smells divine, much healthier than store-bought, tastes better and…it’s so much fun! 🙂 Hope you get to make the butter to have with yours!
      I stopped by your blog…lovely!

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