Butter refers to dairy products and is made from cow’s milk, or rather from cream. Butter is whipped in special apparatuses, where milk is poured. However, butter can be prepared at home.
How to Make Butter Using a Mixer?
Chilled cream of 33% fat content (or more) is whipped in a mixer at maximum power for 10 minutes. 400 ml of cream should make about 150 g of butter.
The liquid separated during this time is drained, and the oily mass is whipped in the same mode for up to 5 minutes.
The liquid separation and whipping cycle is repeated again for 2-3 minutes until the mass is compacted.
The resulting oil is collected with a spoon into a “bun” and slightly crushed. Such a bun should “rest” a little to release some more excess fluid.
Then the butter lump is rolled out on parchment and salted to taste. You can add finely chopped herbs or spices to it. To mix well, it is folded in half several times and rolled out again. In addition to mixing, it is possible to get rid of moisture residues in this way.
How to Make Butter Without Devices?
The butter recipe is very simple:
We take a three-liter jar, pour cream into it (at least 30% fat content) by about 1/3 (a larger amount will be more difficult to beat).
Next, you need to close the jar very tightly and start shaking it with your hands so that the cream inside is actively moving, splashing and bubbling (Turn the jar horizontally and shake with two hands from left to right).
The process takes about 1 hour, it all depends on your physical fitness.
The work is quite masculine, painstaking, time-consuming, but the butter eventually turns out to be very tender and delicious. It is very difficult to find such butter in the store.
Types of Butter
Sour butter
Sweet butter
Amateur butter
Butter with different fillers: cocoa, honey, vanilla (this includes chocolate butter)
What is Contained in Butter?
In addition to a large amount of fat, butter contains vitamins A, D. Butter contains proteins, carbohydrates, minerals and water. It contains carotene and tocopherols.
Butter is the main product for the preparation of ghee. Ghee is simply melted butter. Ghee has an advantage over ordinary butter – it is stored longer.
Where is Butter Used?
Butter is a mandatory component of French cuisine. Real French chefs do not recognize any other butter except butter. In France, butter is part of many desserts, meat and fish dishes, sauces, gravies, pastries. Traditional cake cream is also made from butter and sugar.
Delicious homemade cake for any occasion and holiday! The basis will be a classic Genuine sponge cake, so soft and porous! The cream will be custard in butter, with the addition of white chocolate. Well, the taste composition will be completed with red currant jam, which we will cover the cakes with. A cup of tea, please!
Dessert milk porridge with pumpkin and berry sauce “Strawberry-flambe”. Starting the day with porridge is very useful, but not always delicious… In its “pure” form, porridge is not always attractive, I suggest adding bright colors to the porridge – pumpkin and strawberry. Even if you can’t find a fresh pumpkin at this time of year, frozen pumpkin (diced) is quite suitable. Porridge turns out to be tender and delicious, bright and fragrant – both adults and children will like it!
It’s very exciting to bake waffles. I baked waffles at the diner. Spring, early summer, lots of greenery, spinach is bought quite often. Waffles go well with spinach and cottage cheese. It turned out very harmoniously to taste.
We gathered the first mushrooms in the forest and we baked a pie. Big and hearty, with potatoes and mushroom caviar, under cheese. For tea or for the second, your loved ones will say “thank you so much!”. Do not pass by, lovers of mushroom dishes.
Dear cooks, I suggest you bake a wonderful pie that combines many flavors, colors and textures of dough. Very tasty and a little unusual. Invited to the party!
This is a salty version of a souffle with butter, cream and fried onions. Airy, weightless and ruddy snack, very tasty! Ideal as an aperitif. Well, we ate, washed down with meat broth. Join us!
Magic soup. I don’t even know what to compare its extraordinary consistency with. It’s not even velvet, it’s silk. I apologize that there are few step-by-step photos, the granddaughters are very scattered and hurried.