Homemade Butter and Buttermilk
Homemade butter and buttermilk.
Ingredients
- 1 pint heavy cream cold
- pinch of salt
- ½ cup cold water use in ⅛ cup increments three times
Instructions
- Pour one pint of cold heavy cream into the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with a whip attachment. Whip on medium speed for a few minutes and then bump it up to high speed and whip for 10-15 minutes until the cream breaks and become more yellowish in color. Scrape the bowl throughout the process.
- Once it reaches the point where it's yellow, there are curdles and there is liquid in the bowl, stop the mixer. Using a fine-mesh strainer, strain the solid curdles from the liquid. Use a rubber spatula to push the curdles to get rid of the excess liquid. Place the solids in a separate bowl.
- Pour about ⅛ cup of cold water over the top of the butter and use your rubber spatula to squeeze down and pour out any excess liquid. Do this two or three more times. Season with salt (optional). Then, use your rubber spatula to give it a final mixing for a few minutes until smooth and creamy. You will have to pour out the excess liquid throughout this process, but that's normal. Enjoy!
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Notes
You can also do this process with a hand mixer or with a mason jar. If you're using a mason jar, make sure it's cold and only fill it halfway. You'll have to shake until the cream breaks and continue with the rest of the process as normal.