Thursday, March 26, 2009

A Recipe From Our Friend Emeril Lagasse

One recipe that has a majority of milk in it is butter. Actucally milk is the only ingredient in it. You don't use milk thought, you use heavy cream. Here is a recipe from Emeril Lagasse on how to make a good homemade butter.

Ingredients - 1 pint heavy cream (very cold)
- Pinch salt, optional

Directions - Find a large jar with a right fitting cover that will hold the cream about half full. Pour cream in and put in the refrigerator for an hour. After this time, take the jar out and shake it as hard as possible for about 15 to 30 minutes. Chunks should be beginning to form now. These chunks are butter and the liquid is butter milk. Pour the contents of the jar into a large mixing bowl. Empty the remaining butter milk back into the jar and put in refrigerator for later use. Take the butter and put it into a clean bowl that is full of very cold water. Empty out the water and rinse butter with cold water until the water coming off the butter is clear. When it is not clear, it is still rinsing off the butter milk. All the butter milk must be off because it will cause the butter to sour if it is still on. Once the butter is cleaned, work and press with a wooden spoon or rubber spatula. Add salt if you want to give it more flavor. Refrigerate until you are ready to use it.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/emeril-lagasse/homemade-butter-recipe/index.html

Try it out!!! Let me know if you can make it.

1 comment:

  1. In one of my high school classes we made homemade butter before! It was kind of plain tasting and I don't think I shook mine enough because it was runnier than everyone elses but it was still good!

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