Homemade butter!

My mom and grandma visited recently and stayed with me at my house. Remember the daizy churn? Well, my grandma brought this in her carry on as a housewarming gift. The churn is much bigger than it seems in the picture.

So I bought 32 oz. of heavy cream and grandma taught me to make butter! I forgot to grab the camera for the first couple of steps, but we poured the cream in the curn, and steadily turned the handle, but not so fast so as to make whipped cream. Just when we were about to give up, thinking the cream had weird additives causing it not to form butter, the butter separated from the milk. It was amazing! Then we had a churn full of buttermilk and a mass of butter.

Grandma pulled the butter out of the curn into a wooden bowl and added ice water. This is to clean the butter. She sort of kneeded the butter with a paddle.

We went through several changes of ice water until the water stayed clear.

Then grandma kept "kneeding" the butter to get out all of the water.

and there you have it! This is the final product - butter on the right, and the buttermilk on the left. The ice water baths we just poured out.

We added a little kosher salt to the butter, and tried it out on hot biscuits we made with the buttermilk.

I can't wait to make fresh butter with the cream from Terri's cows.