Butter

Well, we made butter the other day for our Pioneer unit. It was lots of fun and the kids loved it! I have to tell you about it though.

We took some heavy cream and put it in a jar. Then we shook it and shook it and shook it some more. They had so much fun. DD came to me after a while and said that it wasn't making any noise any more. So we opened it and it was nice and thick and had an interesting texture. There was only one thing wrong, where was the buttermilk? We really didn't care because we had some nice whipped butter that tasted wonderful! We used it on our toast, pancakes, potatoes and so on and it was Divine!!

Today, we sadly ran out so the kids asked to make more. We did. But this time we must of shook harder or longer or something because we had butter milk and the texture of the butter was more like butter.

Very sad. We liked it the other way AND it made more the other way. I know we are crazy. I guess what we made the first time was more of a "whipped cream" with no sugar. The other way was soooo wonderful!!

I even fried an egg in the first "butter" and oh my goodness, was it wonderful! I mean, it was one of the best eggs ever!! It was sunny side up with all the white done and the yolk had a beautiful white color on the outside but was just absolutely runny on the inside. DELICIOUS!

Anyway, it was fun and the kids know that now when they go to make our butter they want to stop when the "noise" stops.