Butter making

One of Matt's Christmas presents was a lovely jar butter churn with wooden paddles for butter churning. Obviously he was keen to test it straight away so we hot-footed it to Tesco to buy a load of double cream (which was reduced post-Christmas).



We may have been slightly over ambitious with how much we poured in so by the time the cream has got to whipped stage the churn wouldn't move any more...



So we had to decant it into smaller jars for the old tried and tested shake-it-like-you-mean-it method! This worked a charm (even if my arms, which we already aching from excessive Wii-ing, did feel like they were going to fall off by the end!)





...et voila, we got some butter!





It made not only these three ramekins but also a large one (this is about half of the total butter) so very worthwhile indeed.