I love Hugh Jackman. I love every film, musical and play he’s starred in. Even the not-so-good ones. Take Kate & Leopold, for instance. Standard fare romantic comedy on the brink of being disastrous if it wasn’t for Hugh. His best line in the film, “Ah yes, you mock me. But perhaps one day when you’ve awoken from a pleasant slumber to the scent of a warm brioche smothered in marmalade and fresh creamery butter, you’ll understand that life is not solely composed of tasks, but tastes”.
Fresh creamery butter. Though my husband’s Irish, he does a pretty convincing British accent. Especially when he mimics Hugh Jackman’s character of Leopold, an English baron from the 1870′s.
Fresh creamery but-ta.
Good stuff. Go make this fresh creamery butter. If there’s heavy cream lurking in the house, perhaps leftover from this weekend’s rice pudding, now you know what to do with it. Whipping cream works just fine too. Now, I must go start on that brioche.
Homemade Organic Butter, yields 5.5 ounces
Though I normally buy unsalted butter, I’d definitely recommend adding a few pinches of salt to this homemade version. Not only will it be tastier, the salt also helps the butter keep longer.
Music Pairing: Sting, Until
Ingredients
- 2 cups organic heavy cream or whipping cream
- pinches of salt, to taste
Method
Pour cream into food processor and process for about 10 minutes. It will turn to a thick whipped cream, and then separate, leaving the butter and remaining liquid, which is buttermilk. Strain the buttermilk into a jar, cover and refrigerate for later use.
Scrape butter from the sides and place into a clean bowl. Cover with very cold water and pour into a strainer, discarding the liquid. Continue rinsing with cold water until the water runs clear. The cloudy water is buttermilk which will make the butter turn sour. When the butter is clean, work with a rubber spatula to press out any remaining liquid. Discard liquid. Add salt to taste.
Transfer butter to a container for keeping, pressing with a rubber spatula to dispel any air bubbles. Cover and refrigerate.
My sister thinks her husband looks like Hugh Jackman. He doesn’t. At all. That being said, I love making butter, even if I can’t say it with a convincing British accent.
“My sister thinks her husband looks like Hugh Jackman. He doesn’t. At all.”
THAT, is hysterical. Good for her, I say! We all have to dream, right :)
Looks gorgeous! I’ll be trying this after I get my hands on some good cream at the next markets I go to.
Thank you! Perfect timing. I made a small batch of caramel 2 days ago and have some left over cream and have been wondering what to do with it. This will do just the trick.
I wish I saw this last week when I threw out my leftover cream! Thanks for sharing, I’ll know for next time :)
p.s – loving the musical pairing!
Oh goodness – I do have a jar of heavy cream waiting in the fridge. How perfect!
I’ve made butter before and have just loved the simple process of watching cream turn to a solid mass, the taste of something so fresh and basic. I used a K5 mixer with a whip attachment and really never figured out just how long it would last as I pretty much ate it on everything in sight. Life without butter is not much fun. I tried. I’d rather deal with the fat.
Wow, it sounds easy, I am going to try this, thank you very much!
Inspiring idea to make one’s own butter. I’ve never tried it. It looks beautiful!
I think Wolverine is my favourite…
haha i love hugh jackman in that movie! i’d like some fresh creamery but-ta, please :)
I’ve thought about making butter. Homemade butter on homemade bread. That’s as real as it gets.
i just love your photos…didn’t read a thing, too busy staring at your photos! lol
I didn’t like Hugh Jackman until I saw him perform for Oscar one year. He’s such a great performer! Still, I can’t stand his wolfman look though. Haha……
I love how simple it is to make this butter. All those beautiful pictures are telling me how smooth and tasty this butter is!
Wish I’d thought of making butta!
I had some whipping cream left over and ended up making George Gaston’s bread pudding muffins with it.
Hugh Jackman is a doll and there’s nothing wrong with a chick flick once in a while. He’s worth looking at!
Oh, lovely! I like your music pairing. I made my butter with Yann Tiersen, and it was pleasant, but not quite right. Have you tried the Atlantic’s butter, with the creme fraiche? I highly recommend it. It’s like the European stuff, with the slightest tang.
thanks for the recommendation, emvandee! i’ll be on the lookout now.
I will definitely take the butta. But can I have mine with a side of Johnny Depp please?
I never knew it was this easy to make butter (or but-ta). ;) I need to try making this now – it looks so good!
How Nice! Super easy!
Thank you, your photography is really fresh. Love your style.
This is my first visit and I am completely smitten with your beautiful images. I’ll be back again…and again.
vlad gorshkov and solstice letters – that is so sweet….welcome and thank you so much!
Gorgeous…..will have to reserve a whole month to try out your homemade dairy products….
Heya – thanks for posting this. I saw somewhere for those people who do not have a food processor, a jar will do but…it will require a lot of shaking. Just thought to share this with you guys. ;o)
What beautiful photos! I love the idea of making my own home made butter and find the buttermilk side effect quite delightful – I will have to try this soon.
Fantastic photography. Love the bottle of buttermilk on the wood table. Also love the last shot with the patterned tablecloth. Something I never thought would ever work (too busy), but you make it look clean, simple and elegant – just perfect.
Gonna have to try making my own butter now too!
I made homemade butter on my site a while back, but my photos aren’t nearly as gorgeous as yours! Great post! :)
It’s not often that I have heavy cream in the house. Leftovers often end up down the drain….sadly. now I know what to do with it. Your photos are gorgeous! This is my first visit to your blog…gonna go poke around a bit!
Gorgeous photos! I buy my dairy from a local producer. Their butter is sold in huge 2# tubs though. I will make my own with a pint of their cream next time! Thanks for the post.
So the butter looks lovely, but the rice pudding, OH, the rice pudding!! So happy for the link (published on my birthday, no less — obviously, meant to be). Will be whipping up a batch shortly, if not sooner.
hi laura – who doesn’t love a 2 for 1 deal, huh?
happy belated birthday, molly! it’s fate – the rice pudding has been awaiting you.
Making homemade butter is one of my to do list. I just can imagine the luxury of the taste of butter. Great music paring for the homemade butter. Lovely photos, as always.
Super easy. Been wanting to make butter for awhile….. May go well if something I have in mind…..
i love making homemade butter – it is so much fun. your pictures are just breathtaking… makes me want to not be in the office and be a home, making butter instead. sadly, i must work!
I have only once ever made my own butter, I was 12 years old and crawled through muck to milk the camp cow. It was hot, sticky, smelly, and pretty much miserable. I don’t think I even wanted to try the butter, I was in such a mood! Looking back now, it sounds kind of fun, but hey – a carton of cream and a food processor sound even better! I am going to have to try this!
I’ll be trying this. I have a feeling it will be difficult to go back. Duh! Of course butter can be made in a food processor.
I’m so glad you posted this one. Your shots are stunning by the way. I love them!
Laura
Um, can I come over to “your” house? Obviously it’s where the good food is..
I love this! :-) My friend and I made butter once several years ago. But ours was VERY primitive. :-) We poured whole milk in a jar and took turns shaking it until our arms hurt. :-) It worked!
your inspiration for this dish is just so great…and you make the recipe look so simple!
Homemade butter…..I don’t think it can get any better than that! Thanks for sharing.
Yum! The butter AND Hugh Jackman…
Your images are gorgeous as per usual!
I’m going to go tweet this!
Are you on twitter yet?
come on, you can do it :D
xx
thanks for the tweet, nanette! (not yet…soon, very soon, thanks for the reminder!)
Delicious! This makes me want to make toast and spread some of your delicious butter all over it. Oh goodness. And I agree, Hugh Jackman was definitely the only reason to watch Kate & Leopold. Mmmm…Hugh Jackman… ;)
Absolutely gorgeous!
Sounds like a process I’ll thoroughly enjoy! Imagine saying “Have a scone with homemade jam and handchurned butter” *droools!*
How you remembered that line is beyond me, but goodness its perfect!
I love homemade butter, even when I make it by accident, but this sounds perfect. Now to make some scones – the brioche sound like a brilliant idea but scones sound easier.
Thanks for sharing!
I was wondering if it makes a difference if the cream is ultra-pasteurized, as that is all that is available locally. I don’t even understand what or why the “ultra”. I do know that most recipes for homemade cheese, creme fraiche specify “non-ultra”, but I make them anyway, but are they as good as they could be?
I wonder if it’s a food police thing, they were running out of ideas on how to take the enjoyment out of our food, and came up with “Raw is bad, Pasteurization is all well and good, but Ultra, that will save the poor souls! The less natural, the better!”
Did you hear there is a cardiologist in England that wants the government to ban butter?
Not cigarettes, not alcohol, BUTTER!
Sorry about the rant…I am so sick of food police!
hi deborah – from what i’ve read, ultra-p. should work, though probably requiring more processing time due to the added stabilizers (unlike for cheese making). that being said, the better quality the cream, the better the butter. i’m not a fan of the food police either!
Wow, I am so impressed with these pictures!.. Which probably means I’m impressed with… butter? Double wow :) I like the story accompanying the picture too… I saw the movie, but totally didn’t remember that line hehe :-)
ooooh, homemade butter is decadently delicious. I feel silly to have made it the hard way by just shaking a tightly sealed tupperware container away for an endless amount of time. enjoy the brioche as well :) :) :)
I am just shaking my head. Homemade butter. Amazing. How great would that taste?
I love that you put a music selection with it!!
As usual, you utterly amaze me. This is wonderful!
We remember making butter in kindergarten by shaking the cream in a small container! This looks so tasty and fresh and not that hard to make. Thank you for sharing. We can’t wait to taste it on our favorite crusty bread!
I love home made butter. :) My mom in law used to get it from a nearby farm. :)
Thanks for reminding me how easy it is to make butter. It is one of those things that I should be doing, but don’t. I’ll have to change that. The last time I can remember making it was in elementary school when we put cream in a cup with a lid and a marble and shook it until it set up. I like the food processor version much better. :)
gorgeous photos! and i’m with you … i quite like hugh jackman. : )
I have always wanted to make homemade butter, but never have, maybe I can get the inspiration now to do it.
I rememeber my mom making butter.. she would skim the cream of milk everyday and when she had enough, she would hand churn it to make butter! And I vowed never to do that.. but this is simply too easy to not make at home.. sighh. how much easier life has become?! :)))
Fabulous post! I haven’t tried to make butter before but it all sounds very easy, thanks for the recipe.
OMG I LOOOVE HUGH JACKMAN he is so strikingly handsome — I told Collin he was definitely one of my “freebies” so by chance one day he walks past me on the street and wants to whisk me away on a romantic getaway I have full permission from my honey. Far fetched? perhaps a little…
I don’t know what I Love more – your sense of detail or your impeccable use of color and composition. Your pictures make my eyes so happy :)
Wow, great pictures and the butter sure looks yummie, now I just need a freshly baked Sourdough bread :-) YUMMIE!
I made butter for the very first time just last week – with my 5 yr old son. We just sat around shaking a container full of whipping cream and we had butter!
Thanks for the tip about washing the butter with cold water – I didn’t know that one. I thought that tipping out all the buttermilk was enough.
Gorgeous photos :)
What a beautiful blog you have here, so glad I came by. Homemade butter always brings back childhood memories, as I remember my dad used to always say …this is the real stuff , when we were kids we never saw these packaged ones, , n he never used a electric which, he would beat it with hand !! Sometimes he’d make me do it, n i would just make a face as it would leave my hands so greasy , n as a kid i hated that stuff … lol !! Lovely post ! Makes me want to do it all over again :))
I am in love with your blog! The recipes, the gorgeous photography…the music pairings?! You are fabulous.
Who would have thought making butter was so easy!?! I saw this post the other day as I was making your granola (which turned out delicious by the way) and thought I would have to try it.
So tonight as I was making some bread and the air was filled with yummyness I thought “I know what goes great with bread… BUTTER” So off I went to the kitchen to make some butter, some home made delicious organic fresh butter. I was giddy, in the kitchen with my food processor making butter. I am so proud, I MADE BUTTER!
I can’t wait for the bread to be done so I can try it!
Thanks so much for the recipe, images and inspiration.. oh and the mental picture of Hugh Jackman, delicious as well!
yay!! that makes me so happy, stephanie! i’m so proud of you too! here’s to us…two giddy girls. ;)
Homemade organic butter…wow, I love it! I gotta start to make more food from scratch!
Ooh, your making me drool…this post was great as I’ve been on a butter kick lately, everything I cook seems to have 2 sticks of butter in it? Thanks, I did not realize how easy it is to make butter at home.
Count me in! What’s life without BUTTER?! Gorgeous photos!
Never before have I been tempted to make my own butter. Now I know it must be so. Thank you for the inspiration!
H :)
I love Hugh Jackman too ! He’s sooo sexy !
Ho ho I have to try homemade butter. It looks so gorgeous !
I’ve never even thought of making my own butter but this looks fabulous and happily easy! Your photos are so stunning, and Hugh Jackman? Great choice.
Oh, what a brilliant idea! :) I quite regularly make home made yogurt. Never tried to make homemade butter though.
Your blog is beautiful with stunning photos! I’ll be back soon! :)
These are the clearest instructions I have ever read for making butter. Almost clear enough for me to make some. :)
Homemade butter…how wonderful. I did have to laugh at the first comment you received about the readers brother-in-law looking nothing like Hugh Jackman. Anyway, this looks amazing!
oh man… ship me a few sticks of that please!
thank you for this fabulous post, one of so so many on this awesome blog !
quick question : how long does this butter keep ? i know the amount of salt must have an impact on its staying power. but in general, would lightly salted homemade butter last a week? 2 weeks? more?
thank you in advance for your reply…and esp. thank you for your hard work !!
amy
thanks so much, amy! the butter, with the addition of salt, should last up to 1-2 weeks in the fridge, in a tightly sealed container. enjoy!
I have been dreaming of butter for waayyyy too long. It’s really pretty stupid. Just go and make some, fer crissakes. But, what happens is that sometimes I just can’t get past the whipped cream…
Wow !!!!!! saw this post and remembered that I’d seen a bunch of heavy cream on clearance the day before in Safeway. So I went back to get some and I’ve just made this butter and it was seriously one of the most satisfying things I’ve ever done, a lot of greasy clean up but SOOOOOOOO worth it ! Thanks for sharing :)
so does everyone realize just how easy and fast it is to make homemade butter ? amazing really, right ? i saw a program on Canadian tv the other day with Stéphane Reynaud, he and a friend made butter – literally by simply shaking fresh cream crazy vigorously in a jar, less than 5 minutes, that’s it…. but-ta ! um, wow. must do this. definitely salted. and definitely needs warm bread as accompaniment. which of your recipes to make ?! :)
I am so impressed! Perfect with your homemade baguette!!! Yum yum yum.
I’m very interested in these everyday items made at home from scratch. I just did my first fresh pasta at home and it felt so good. It’s wonderful that we have the convenience of buying everything pre-made for us but I think it’s important to be able to create things yourself, to understand what it’s made of and how it is made. I can’t wait to try this- thanks for the inspiration and great props!
Can this be really that easy? Beautiful pictures too. I’m so looking forward to reading your archive posts and the recipe index. I’m becoming a big fan. Thank you.
I have now made butter. My education is finally complete.
Proof: http://www.flickr.com/photos/teresaaf/4386203788/
Thank you for posting this – I think you just changed my life.
BTW: I used a regular hand mixer – I broke my food processor just before I started to make this.
yay!! it looks superb, teresa! job well done.
Lovely! I remember that line from “Kate & Leopold”!
This butter looks YUM! Do you think its ok to run a food processor for 10 minutes straight or should I give it a break now and again? I wouldn’t want to blow up my kitchen and waste perfectly delicious butter :)
hi jen, i let it run for about 8-10 minutes straight. keep an eye on it while it’s on, just in case. hope you enjoy it!
I am always glad to see other people making butter. I just started making it and realized how easy it was to make this last winter, and now I never buy butter. Though I must admit that I do buy Lurpak for my everyday use. FYI, I have only been making butter for six months.
As for method, I use the Mason-jar-shake method. I don’t own a food processor — though I want to one day.
When I make butter, I culture my cream first by leaving it out on the counter over night to let it slightly sour. And now I actually buy cream and let it go past its expiration date by a month (in the fridge) before I make my butter. It really gives it a nice tang, but I also have a bizarre cream culturing experiment going on in my fridge at all times which is suspect to everyone close to me.
One thing that makes butter even more fun is forming it. Leaving it in a stick or roll is just not that satisfying. Butter tastes great, but if you can present it, people believe in it. I bought a vintage wooden butter mold off of eBay, and now I mold it and freeze it for later use. Guests/family just look at me like I am crazy. Ten minutes for butter, and in another 30 I have a nicely formed butter round all decorated and such. I also use a variety of local creameries and label my frozen butters by the cream maker. I guess that is easy when I live in Minnesota with a lot of dairy producers.
One thing I will say is that I now mostly go for cream that isn’t ultra-pasteurized. One time I left an ultra-pasteurized cream on the counter for 5 days and it didn’t sour. That was sort of freaky. Some organic cream needs to be shipped from farther away, so I suggest buying local if possible.
I love butter.
And, yes, I love the photos. They are great. And great blog.
Cheers,
k.
i have to try this…
opps! didn’t realize i left my comment in the wrong place! i need to try the potato soup!
Beautiful blog!
what a beautiful blog!
do you have any suggestions as per the leftover buttermilk? i was thinking of using it to make bread dough, but maybe you have more interesting ideas… :)
thanks!
I just made butter this past weekend. I have a friend who barely spends any time in the kitchen at all and she wanted to know how to make butter too! So she came over and I showed her how. So delicious! Thank you for posting this! :)
I just made this last night and I am still giddy with excitement!!!! All night I couldn’t stop dreaming about the wonderful goodies I can make from this!!! Thank you so much for expanding my world!!!!!!
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i think i messed it up! after ten minutes were done is was complete liquid! should i keep beating?
Hi Karine – Gosh, not sure what could have gone wrong. That’s never happened to me before. I would say to just keep beating.
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Thank you for posting this! I’m so excited to try this – is it possible to use a stand mixer (with whipping attachment ) instead of a food processor?