Making Yummy Homemade Butter

This week we made homemade butter from whipping cream. We are studying American History using Adventures in MFW, and we have been reading about the pilgrims. We learned that they had to make their own butter, so we made our own to see how it was done.

This project was included in the curriculum.

First we bought a carton of heavy whipping cream. We took two glass jars (one for each child) and poured some cream into the jar. Then we started shaking. We shook and shook. The cream started to get thicker and thicker. We kept shaking for about 15 minutes. Then little tiny lumps started to appear. We kept shaking. Then, all of a sudden, it looked like there was water in the jar. When we opened it up there was a big ball of yellow butter that somehow had separated from the cream, which now looked like plain milk in the bottom of the jar.

This is what it looked like:







It really was amazing! I never knew you could make butter this way. I was surprised at this beautiful yellow color. The cream was so white and everytime we opened the jar and looked at it, it was still white. Then in what seemed like a shake or two, it just turned into this.

So, if you haven't done this yet, you need to. My kids loved it. They immediately made some toast so they could eat the butter that they made, and it was so yummy!!