Butter Churner.

[gness]

Finally, with not too many sweary words, Dave has used the churner I bought him and made the most fantastic butter.
By the time we'd stopped tasting it we had no room for dinner.

Looking forward to more butter and some experiments. :-)

[douglas9401]

If one Patrick McGinty, an Irishman of note offers anything for churning RUN AWAY!

[Redhelen72]

I hope the butter milk is being put to good use.
Get him making cheese too

[gness]

Butter milk will make soda bread, Helen.

Paddy can keep his Bill, Douglas.

[gness]

We had some delicious sausages. Might buy him a pig for his birthday.

[Tilly2]

Is it electrical?

[Redhelen72]

Oooo fresh bacon

[Tilly2]

Gness, I don't believe that Dave could kill a pig.

[gness]

No, Tilly it's hand operated. Mind you, by the time he'd finished churning I wish I had bought him an electric one. :-)

Nice and crispy, Helen. I don't think so either, Tilly. Would have to trot it down to Pete the Meat in the village.

[Tilly2]

No!

[gness]

Well we eat it, Tilly so we need to know. And it's a nice walk from here to the village. :-)

[rowanwitch]

Could Dave kill a pig.......eventually?

[gness]

He could, Rowan if he told the pig all he knows about postcodes. The pig would die of boredom. The girlfriend he entertained with his knowledge of postcodes just ditched him.

[Hazlinny]

That takes me back Gness - my granny had a glass one with wooden handle- she used to walk about a mile to a farm to get cream and took hours churning away to get only a very small amount of butter but, boy, did it taste good!

[gness]

This is glass, Haz. Ten minutes churning, strain and pat into shape. Delicious.

[rowanwitch]

Made some once with an electric mixer on a slow setting with the paddle beaters rather than whisks. Added lemon zest and black pepper and used it for fish.

[237SJ]

I`ve got a Kilner butter churner. It's hard work churning for 20 mins when the fat separates out and it becomes harder to turn the handle. When it's ready I mix garlic powder and fresh parsley into it then freeze it in slices for when I want a bit of garlic butter on something. I keep the buttermilk for making yorkshire puddings. It's much creamier than shop bought butter.

[anneasquith]

G. Check out latest trend .Butter Boards .
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[gness]

Rowan and 237. I like the idea of plain butter then mixing different flavours and freezing. I love salty butter, Dave doesn't. He likes lots of garlic, I like a little so slicing and freezing will work for us.

New to me, Anne. Had a look and will give butter boards a miss. Much as I love my family and friends...well most of them...I don't want to share their dribble.