Making Bubber!

Or, for the rest of the people out there who aren't two and can pronounce hard consonants, butter.  Squiddy miss says bubber (and biber which is, spider, of course) and says it loud, she loves butter on bread, butter on crackers, butter on her paws if she's unsupervised near the butter dish long enough.  Anyhow, enough with that.  I bought some nearly out of date cream and decided that a rainy day mummy/daughter kitchen moment might be fun, of course my kid mostly likes pounding (or throwing, but that ain't so useful in the kitchen) things, so we decided on butter.



 It is so easy and fun and a great way to make use of short dated cream, or even out of date if it passes the sniff/lick test.  We made the butter and with the resulting buttermilk a batch of pancakes to eat it with, waste nothing! lol.

 Only the sketchiest attempt at a recipe, it's nursery school stuff.  Pour your double cream into a mixer or food processor, whip like crazy! It will overwhip, turn grainy then go splat.  Once it's splatted you will see golden chunks of butter floating in the buttermilk.  Drain off the buttermilk and wash your butter in iced water, to remove the rest of the buttermilk, this really helps to keep it a little longer, just kind of knead it gently in a bowl of really chilled water.  Once you're happy, knead in a little flaky sea salt for salted butter, wrap and store in the fridge.  It's really sweetly creamy and fresh tasting, goes great on toast, with apricot jam *sigh* a dieter can dream right?

If you have enough minions darling children you can give them each a jar full of cream and a clean marble, secure the tops and have them labour away for hours shake the jars and gain a sense of wonder as the butter forms.  Like I say, you need a lot of kids to get your butter that way.