This has to be the most delicious easy recipe ever for making BUTTER.  Yes real butter.

Monday morning dawns – Fresh bread proving

In the back of the fridge is a 21oz double cream that we have not used over the weekend so what’s the best thing to do with it? Make butter to go with your warm scrummy tasty fresh bread.

You need

• 21 oz fresh double cream
• Maldon salt
• One electric hand mixer
• Two clean bowls
• One spatula
• Muslin or a kitchen towel
• Sieve and a clean pan or something to hold the sieve in

Stage 1

Pour a 21oz carton of double cream into a clean dry bowl

Whisk with an electric hand whisk until thick cream.  You can make this with an electric stand mixer but I find it easier with a hand whisk

Next step keep whipping. Don’t be afraid if it starts to turn pale yellow and look like scrambled eggs.

Scrape down with a spatula.  Keep whipping – next stage it starts to get wet!

Then even wetter. Keep going, you’re doing a great job

When you get to this stage the buttermilk and curds split away from each other.  That’s perfect.

Now, this is the exciting part.  Stop whisking – time to get your hands messy!

Line a pan with a square of muslin cloth or if you do not have any a kitchen towel will do.  Now pour the liquid into the pan and add a third of the curds (butter in the making).

Gather together at the top and wring out letting all the buttermilk drip back into the pan.

You will be amazed at the amount of buttermilk is squeezed out.  You now form a REAL butter pat

Place the first pat into a clean bowl and repeat until all the butter is drained from the buttermilk.  I do this to make three pats for 21oz of cream.

So by now, you have three good pats of butter and around 300 mls of buttermilk.  Now pop the buttermilk in a jug ready to use later (makes great chicken or scones).  Get some really good sea salt – I adore Maldon. I think it’s the best in the World but please don’t use table salt as it will spoil the finish.

Sprinkle on two large pinches (around 7 grams).   You can add more or less depending on your taste and preference.

Here again to get my hands messy.   Mix together to make a smooth butter.   I have old wooden butter paddles but you don’t need them. I just like them for the fun

When smooth you can either make a block or if you have some butter dishes you can place the butter in them.  I put a greaseproof paper on top then cling film or you can freeze them.

You can now make different Artisan Butters Garlic, Peppers, chicken butter is a fabulous appetizer just add chicken meat juices and serve topped with crispy chicken skin on the top delicious served with rye bread

Make some fresh Bread and savour.

And

Remember to stay safe

Love x