Let’s do some butter making in a jar! Homemade butter is super delicious! You’d be surprised at how different store bought butter tastes compared to homemade butter. The best part is, homemade butter fairly cheap to make, and is super easy and actually fun to make. This homemade butter recipe would be a great endeavor to do with kids as it’ll take a little arm strength to make it, but this homemade butter is worth it in the end! Butter making in a jar is such a great skill to learn.
Homemade Butter Recipe
Butter is one of those things I generally buy in bulk. We go through some butter in this household, but I’m also super picky about it. I need it to be sweet, salty, and creamy without weird aftertastes or tasting like the paper it came in. And since I’ve been trying my hand at making sourdough bread, I thought I’d also try my hand at homemade butter as well.
Turns out, it was worth it as we also used the butter in our butter board as well. So good by the way.
But, this butter recipe is super simple and easy, and best of all, cheap! With some brands of butter being almost $6, I definitely need a cheaper option!
Ingredients Needed To Make Homemade Butter
- 1 Pint Heavy cream
Tools
- Large Mason jar
Optional
Any add-ins if you want flavored butter like salt, cinnamon, etc.
How To Make Homemade Butter
Step 1
Fill a large mason jar with the heavy whipping cream and put the lid and ring back on.
Step 2
Shake. And I mean shake vigorously, you may be doing this 10-20 minutes depending on how much arm strength you will have.
Note:
At first the sloshing feeling and sound may stop, but keep shaking. The first step of the shaking is whipped cream.
Step 3
Keep shaking and it’ll start to solidify and you’ll see it sticking on the sides a bit and peeling away. Keep shaking it until it kind of clumps together and you start seeing buttermilk and then you can stop.
Step 4
Once you’re done, you can keep the buttermilk to use for buttermilk biscuits or drain it.
Step 5
Take your butter and kind of shape it together, then put it in a bowl with ice cold water to wash off excess buttermilk.
Step 6
Now, you’ll take a cheese cloth if you have it, place the butter in it, and kind of squeeze the excess buttermilk out.
Note:
If you don’t have a cheese cloth then use your hands or another thin cloth.
Step 7
Repeat step 5 and step 6 two more times.
Step 8
Once your butter is clean this is the time to add in your sea salt or other flavorings.
Step 9
Put it in a mold or form it into a ball and cover it in the fridge until you’re ready to eat it or leave at room temperature if you’re using that day. Enjoy!
When Do You Add Your Add-Ins Like Salt To Your Homemade Butter?
Wondering when to add salt to homemade butter? On the last step before you put it in the fridge. And that goes for any add-ins may they be savory or sweet.
Delicious Flavored Homemade Butter Recipes and Ideas
Once you have your homemade butter you can make compound butter. What is compound butter? I’m glad you asked! It’s literally just butter mixed with other ingredients to make it sweet or savory. If you’re wanting something different than salted or unsalted, try these compound butter recipes!
- Delicious Herb Butter
- Super Yummy Cinnamon Honey Butter
- Roasted Garlic Compound Butter
- Cajun Compound Butter
Turn your freshly churned butter…or butter in a jar into an artisanal butter using herbs and seasonings. Natural ingredients taste the best. This is as farm-to-table as most people get. And the nutritional benefits are high, despite the lies that butter and other dairy products are bad for you.
How Much Butter Will This Homemade Butter Recipe Make
When making butter, you will end up with half the amount of butter as cream used. So, if you use a pint of cream, which is 16oz, then you’ll end up with 8oz of butter, or around 1 cup of butter.
How Long Will Your Homemade Butter Last At Room Temperature?
If you’re like me, then you like to leave your butter out so it spreads easily. I know some people are nervous because it is a dairy product, but believe it or not, you can leave butter out for a few days. It’s true, the USDA even said you can.
However, if you leave it out longer than that then be aware the flavor can go rancid.
Is It Cheaper To Make Your Own Homemade Butter Or Buy Butter At The Store?
It depends. People argue back and forth on this and if you have dairy cows then yes, it’s cheaper because you already have the cream.
But if you’re buying cream, you may save a dollar or so.
32oz of heavy whipping cream here is around $5.00, the butter I buy currently is around $6.00. So, I mean, it saves me around a dollar. Which may not be the biggest deal, or it may be in this economy.
Why Make Your Own Homemade Butter?
Because you can? Because it tastes amazing, and it’s fun to do honestly and a great skill to learn. Learning to make things from scratch is a skill a lot of people have forgotten and is something we need to bring back.
How Long Will Homemade Buttermilk Last?
According to the USDA buttermilk can last up to 2 weeks in the fridge or 3 months frozen. Be sure to always smell it to ensure that it is still good.
What Is The Science Behind Making Butter In A Jar?
Easy homemade butter is great. But while trying this butter making in a jar I thought about the science behind it. So what is the science behind making butter in a jar? By shaking the cream in a jar the gat globules are bounced around in the jar. And once they’re agitated they start to stick together. And since fat and water do not combine the fat sticks to fat while the liquid separates.
Super Easy Homemade Butter Recipe
Equipment
- 1 mason jar
Ingredients
- 1 pint heavy whipping cream
Instructions
- Fill a mason jar with heavy whipping cream and put the lid and ring back on.
- Shake your mason jar vigorously.
- Keep shaking even when the liquids stop sloshing.
- Continue to shake even when you see the butter begin to clump together.
- Once the butter is clumped AND there is buttermilk then you can begin the next steps.
- Pour out the buttermilk.
- Shape your butter and rinse it in ice water.
- Squeeze using a cheese cloth or hands and then rinse it in ice water again.
- Rinse and squeeze 3 times.
- Add in your flavorings like sea salt and mix with a spatula.
- Shape or mold or whip the butter and put it in the fridge or eat it right away!
The good news is, if you try this butter making in a jar then you are making butter the old fashioned way!
Technically, yes, you can, but it needs to be raw milk. Raw milk still has the cream in it. Whole milk from the store does not have the cream anymore. Butter is made from cream.
No, you cannot make butter with buttermilk. Buttermilk is a byproduct of making butter. All the liquid left in your jar when you try this butter making in jar is actually buttermilk. Buttermilk doesn’t have cream in it anymore as the cream was turned into butter.
Yes, of course you can! Just make sure the mason jar you’ll be putting your butter in is clean!
Enjoy Your Homemade Butter!
Whether you’re making it with your kids to learn or making it to eat, enjoy your homemade butter! It goes great with fresh bread, potatoes, butter boards, and more!
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Did you try this butter making in a jar activity? The homemade butter is so good.