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To Make Butter

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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To Make Butter

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Skim the milk when the sun has not heated the dairy.

  2. Let the milk stand for 24 hours in summer and 48 hours in winter without skimming.

  3. Deposit the cream pot in a very cold cellar.

  4. Churn the cream at least twice a week.

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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