This is how my Grandmother made butter during The Great Depression. Years later, when I was a little girl, I remember making butter like this with her. #greatdepression, #food, #recipe;
Thank you Grandma! As a child, my mom let me make butter this way. The teachers showed us how to do this when I was in kindergarten. We've fallen a long way today concerning the education system! 💗 We'd shake a jar with cream in it till a nice lump of butter formed.
I was taught in kindergarten to make butter too. We'd shake the jar and pass it around the classroom. By the time everyone got a turn it would be butter. Now a days I use a blender.
We made butter all the time. Fresh milk from the cow and it would sit in the refrigerator until next day when all the cream would be at the top . Take that off and churn it in a big glass jar with a butter paddle . When the butter was finished my Grandma would salt some to make a “sweet” butter and leave some without salt. I can remember the first time we had store bought butter… it tasted terrible. We were spoiled. I was raised on a farm in Ohio. I’m 70 and still make my butter. Thank for the wonderful videos you make! They bring back wonderful memories.
Thank you for sharing your memories about making butter and being raised on a farm that is wonderful. Thank you so much for watching and have a good day👩🏻
Thanks Grandma. I love your sweater! As kids, my mother put cream in a glass jar and my sister and I rolled it back and forth on a wooden floor. I LOVE butter!
I am glad to bring back a childhood memory. My sweater was a gift and is so warm. I love butter also. Thank you so much for watching and have a good day👩🏻
When I was a child growing up on a farm, we had a cow we milked every day. She gave a lot of milk, that was so good and rich. My mother would skim off the thick cream, and put it in a square glass jar that had a lid with wooden paddles attached. My little sister and I would crank the handle as fast as we could go for exactly 20 minutes to make the butter. Then my mother folded in salt and formed it into sticks. She put the extra in the freezer. As long as we had that cow, we had lovely homemade butter to spread on Mom's homemade bread. She baked bread one day every week, 8 to 10 loaves. On bread baking day, our supper was a steaming hot loaf of Mom's homemade bread, thickly spread with that salty-sweet butter. To this day 60 years later, I've still never tasted anything else as good. Thank you for the memories!
Thank you for sharing your memories about growing up on a farm and having a cow. How wonderful to have fresh milk everyday and delicious butter to eat. I love when subscribers share memories of how they grew up or what they would have as their meals. Thank you so much for watching and have a good day👩🏻
Thank you for sharing. We had a daisy butter churn. 🧈 now I shake it in a glass jar. My grandchildren loved to shake the jar. I don't have but 1 great grandchildren and he's 2 young to shake butter. God bless and have a beautiful day both of you.
I recall some of the neighbors still getting milk bottle deliveries when I was little, though we always got milk from a store. I still have a couple of the old dairy bottles in my collection, with names of the dairy either imprinted in the glass or painted on the side. The empty bottles were put out into the milk box on the porch and collected by the milkman, and brought back to the dairy for reuse. When it was freezing out, if the recipient didn't bring in the delivered milk right away, it could freeze, expand, and push the solidified cream out the top, which was covered with a little cardboard disk. That was another way to separate the cream, and a little extra treat to spread on your morning toast, or for extra richness in your coffee. I've never actually tried to make butter, except inadvertently when whipping cream too far, lol. I see now I was a lot further from the butter stage than I'd thought. Thanks for the demo, Grandma!🧈 That was fun! 😄👍 (PS, I recall my Mother telling me about the margarine during WWII, when butter was rationed and unavailable. It was colorless and looked a bit waxy, so people didn't like this new substitution very much. Then they started selling it with little color tablets that you had to mix in at home (with some difficulty), so it ended up looking like butter. It was the kids job to mix in the color, since Grandma had better things to do!)
When we moved to Huntington my parents had a milkman for a few years and I remember the milk box. After they built more supermarkets my Mom would buy the milk at the store. My Mom never told me about the margarine and the color tablets. Enjoyed hearing about that and thanks for sharing. Have a good day. I wish the weather was a lot warmer. Take Care❤️👩🏻
I remember the metal boxes the milkman used to put the fresh milk in and take the empties. I didn't realize how precious that was and how much I missed it until getting good milk from Amish folk. I've drunk raw milk and lived to tell about it. They won't allow dairies to sell raw milk but they will allow factory farms where cows are packed in so tight without grass to eat. Something very wrong here.
Thank you so much for sharing your life experience. I absolutely love seeing your great depression recipe videos and hearing your stories. I hope life is treating you well. Again Thank you so much it makes this history nerd happy to see the effort.
In Kent, WA & Auburn, WA they used to STILL deliver dairy products to a tin cooler on your front porch. They did this up unilt a few years ago, don't know if they still do. It was the only place I knew of that still delivered to your front door, in the old cooler they put on your porch. lol Great video Grandma! Hi to Grandpa and Lucky. :) I like how you two say buttah......**giggle **giggle....
We called it the milk box and the milkman would come and deliver the milk. That’s great if they still do milk deliveries to the home. Glad we gave you a laugh usually everyone can tell we are from New York. Thank you so much for watching❤️👩🏻
This sounds delicious, I love real butter instead of margarine on everything that you would use butter on, it just has such a creamy taste and texture, thank you for this recipe love you Grandma and Grandpa 💗
The butter is delicious and it brings such fond memories of my Grandmother. Everything is better with butter but not so much with margarine. Love you also Grandma👩🏻 & Grandpa👨🍳
I remember at my grandma's house in the winter, she would get the milk out of the milk box on her front porch and it froze and the cream would rise out of the bottle in a solid piece!( the top was just a paper disc) Don't remember what she did with it. Great memories! Thanks!
Sometimes you can locate a local dairy that sells non-homagenized milk. The best to get is the low heat pasteurized milk. (Yes, raw is good, but most people can not buy it.)
I guess we were lucky to have friends and relatives that kept some beef/dairy cross cows for breeding stock and milked for the butter and milk,or so the stories go
my mother told me when she was a little girl,the milk company would give you a small container of yellow food coloring to add to make the butter look yellow.
Thank you for the video. When I go to make the butter with heavy cream - bought , I will be sure to use an electric mixer. I am familiar with the manual egg beater that you used when I was younger. That was a great video thank you so much 😊 Your videos are very interesting.
I am so glad I have the Great Depression recipes passed down from my family. They are simple and cheap to make. Thank you for watching and have a good day👩🏻
We make an Easter bread every year for our breakfast. It is with raisins and so delicious passed down from my Grandmother. Babka also. Grandpa will have to make a video he loves to bake bread and Babka. Thank you for watching👩🏻
It depends on how thoroughly you extract the buttermilk. If you extract it well I your butter can stay in the fridge two to four weeks. Otherwise it will last one week. Thank you for watching and have a good day❤️Grandma👩🏻
Thank you, I learned to cook from my Grandmother and when I was 12 mom took us here on student visas and I went to school here, my school was overwhelmed by Cuban it was 1980 so I had no choice in choosing my recreational class and I was put in cooking! I think it was one of my favorite classes until the teacher noticed girls giving me too much attention and I was sent to wood shop, but I learned from my grandmother and I really enjoy cooking, thank you for the history is a peek into the pass straight from your Grandmother. I'll try some soon.
Thank you Grandma for showing us how to make butter. I'm 65 years old and I never realized buttermilk came from the butter making process! I thought all these years butter was added to the milk, not the opposite way! Showing the stages and milk squeezed out of the butter now makes sense!! Like they say, "You're never too old to learn something!" And you taught me well today! Hope you and Grandpa are doing well! Hugs! 💞
Hi Carol I am glad to hear you learned how to make butter by watching the video. Grandpa and I are doing well and look forward to warmer weather. It’s still chilly on Long Island. Thank you so much for watching and have a good day❤️👩🏻 &👨🍳
This is actually an awesome video. My grandma put heavy cream in jars for us to shake and pass amoung us kids. It was a great experience as small children Hahahaa. Would have been easier with a mixer! Thanks for sharing it!
Oh my goodness I saw you break out the hand beaters and told my cats you'd be there for at least 20 minutes! You worked so hard to make the butter for us that it looks like your wedding ring cut your finger as you were holding the beaters into the bowl! Such hard work! Home made butter is delicious. I haven't had any since the 80s when a lady at our small town markets would churn butter in a big wooden churn and we could get fresh butter once a week there. Great memory!
Thank you for your concern the cut came from my reaching under the bed to retrieve something and my hand hit the metal frame. With age I have thin skin and it cuts very easy. You do get a work out using the egg beater. Thank goodness I lift weights so my arms stay strong. Nothing like homemade butter. Thank you so much for watching and have a good day❤️👩🏻
