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Last week, I made several different versions of cultured sour cream. This is essentially sour cream that has been naturally soured…by using good bacteria to eat the sugars in the cream to create a wonderfully probiotic-rich, enzyme-filled, nourishing sour cream.
This week, I decided to take some of that sour cream and turn it into cultured butter!
Why cultured butter? Cultured butter is delicious and has much of the probiotic activity and benefits of the cultured cream! It is delicious spread on toast, topped on vegetables, anything!!!
To make the cultured butter, I took my sour cream and put it in my stand mixer. I set my mixer to high and just waited. I have done this numerous times and it takes between 10 to 25 minutes. I just kept the mixer on high, stood there, and answered some emails on my phone while the cream whipped! You don't want to get too far away because when the butter finally separates, it splashes quite a bit!!
At this point, it still has a way to go to become butter, but this would make delicious cultured whipping cream! Sometimes, I take a little bit out at this point, add a touch of vanilla and maple syrup…and voila! A delicious whipped cream to serve with fruit! Talk about a nourishing, probiotic-rich treat!!
As it whips, it goes from ‘whipped' to a bit firmer in texture. Keep whipping…not there yet!
Now we have butter! This happens quick as the fat all coagulates and the buttermilk releases! At this point, turn off your mixer or you will have splattered buttermilk everywhere!!
Now I strain the butter, being sure to save all that delicious buttermilk. Then I take this mass of butter and continue to squeeze and squeeze over the strainer until all of the buttermilk is released. This can be messy!
I then took some parchment paper and rolled the butter in the parchment to firm up in the refrigerator. And I poured the buttermilk into a small glass jar.
What should you do with all of that buttermilk? Don't waste it! You can use it to culture more sour cream of course! Here are 10 uses for buttermilk. And here is a delicious recipe for buttermilk biscuits from Jenny at Nourished Kitchen.
This butter is delicious! You don't want to cook with it as you will kill the live cultures. But serve it as you normally would butter! It has almost a slightly sharp cheesy flavor. My daughter often eats it as a small slice of cheese!
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