Butter Making
Ingredients
Directions
Scald all dairy utensils with boiling water and let them air dry.
Rinse wooden utensils and your hands in the hottest water, then in cold water.
Fill troughs with salt and water before use.
Skim the milk after 12 hours in hot weather or 36 hours in cold weather.
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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