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To Make Butter

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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To Make Butter

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Churn fresh milk until it thickens and separates into butter and buttermilk.

  2. Drain off the buttermilk and rinse the butter under cold water.

  3. Knead the butter to remove excess moisture.

  4. Add coarse sea salt to taste and mix well.

  5. Pack the butter into a container for storage.

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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