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To Make Butter

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To Make Butter

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Churn the fresh cream until butter forms.

  2. Open the churn and gather the butter with both hands.

  3. Remove the butter from the buttermilk and place it in a clean bowl or earthen pan.

  4. If using fresh, fill the pan with clean water and work the butter until firm and moisture-free.

  5. Slice the butter with a knife to remove any impurities.

  6. Spread the butter thin in a bowl and mix in the desired amount of salt.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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