How to Make Butter

 I had no idea butter was so easy to do. I mean who wants to make butter right when you can buy it in the supermarket...but it is so useful to know things like this I find. Just so plain gratifying.  Found it in Bigger Bolder Baking.

All you need to make butter is:

INGREDIENTS:

-200 ml of 36% fat cream 
(nata para montar in Spanish or double cream in UK). 
-a blender.
-some clean cloth.
-salt? if you want.

STEPS:

1. There are basically no steps. Simply put the cream in bowl and mix with the blender for about 6-7 minutes until it becomes butter! It will go through the stages of nice creamy cream for cakes, and then it gets yellowy and then the water separates and you butter left.

2. Now place in a cloth with a spoon and drain as hard as you can. The water is actually buttermilk, so you can save it for cakes, pancakes, etc. 

3. Now scoop it out. Season it with salt and that's it.

            

          

Wow, we need to go back to the basics in this life.