Manageability – Easy but stupid.
I don’t know why I keep doing this to myself – making a recipe for things you can just go buy. I’m not a freaking pioneer, why am I making butter? Even if you want like a special butter, you can just purchase regular butter and blend in anything you want. Or better yet, I bet you can even find a flavored herbed butter that is way better than whatever garbage you were going to make. But, whatever. I made butter, and I used this recipe from Love Tabitha.
And it’s real easy because I’m not a pioneer and I have electricity and a food processor. Just blend your heavy whipping cream, drop in some cold water, and Bob’s your uncle. It did take just a touch longer than Tabitha describes below (2 minutes is a stretch), but it’s real easy. And I’ll admit, there’s some pride in making butter from scratch. But it’s just not worth it. It’s even more expensive than just buying butter. What’s the point of this?
Ingredients
- 2 cups heavy whipping cream
- ice water and crushed ice and crushed water
- pinch of salt (optional)
Instructions
- Pour your heavy whipping cream into a food processor and puree for 2-4 minutes. Watching for the cream to form hard peaks and start folding on itself. Honestly, it’ll be closer to 4 minutes.
- Then drop 1/8 cup of ice cold water and 1 crushed ice cube through the hole and puree for another 1-2 minutes. If you’d like to make your butter salted now is the time to add the pinch of salt. If you would like to make your butter peppered this is also the time for pepper. You can make butter anything you want, I guess. You should start seeing it hardening even more. You can now check to see if there’s any liquid to pour off, that is buttermilk which you can save for another recipe.
- Then add 2 more crushed ice cubes and then continue processing for another minute or two until it looks crumbly. Probably 4 minutes, honestly.
- Put the butter in a strainer or fine mesh sieve and gently squeeze out the buttermilk. I’ve done this without a strainer as well, you just have to slowly and carefully squeeze it out.
- Now wrap it wax paper, saran wrap or place it into a container with a lid and refrigerate for at least 15 minutes.
- Buddah!