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To Make Butter

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To Make Butter

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Use a tin basin with a fine sieve or a linen cloth to strain the milk.

  2. Gather cream from the milk using a short-handle tin skimmer.

  3. Churn the cream in a wooden churn, ensuring it is clean and dry.

  4. Churn at a steady pace until butter forms.

  5. Scald a wooden tray and ladle, then fill the tray with cold water.

  6. Remove the butter from the buttermilk using the ladle.

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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