How to Make Homemade Butter

You don’t have to be a Puritan to make this super simple homemade butter.

All you need is a stand mixer. I know that you can shake cream in a jar until it transforms into butter, but I wanted to be a bit more practical.

I bought good, heavy cream. And started to whip it up like I do whipped cream. And beyond. Until it was…

Super-Simple Homemade Butter
Makes about a half-pound; Adapted from a recipe by Joy the Baker

Ingredients:

• 2 cups heavy cream
• Smidge of salt, to taste

Method:

In a stand mixer with the whisk attachment in place, pour cream into the bowl and set the speed at 2 0r 3.

After 10 minutes, you should have too-whipped cream. Turn the mixer to “4.” In another 10 minutes, the mixture will start to look curdled.

A little more mixing, and you’ll have buttermilk separated from a solid(ish) mass of butter!

Transfer the ball of butter to a sieve sitting over a mixing bowl to drain a bit more, then return it to the mixer and add salt. Mix for another minute or so, then dunk the whole mass in ice-cold water.

Wrap it in plastic, shape it into a log, and refrigerate.

It will be good in the fridge for about a week, but I doubt it will last that long. Especially when I bake a loaf of the no-knead bread to go with it. I’m practically a pioneer.