Homemade butter, if short in the shops

The last weeks, the world's richest country is in acute shortness of butter. A lot of people started with a low carbohydrate diet, high in fat and proteins. In combination with a bad season for milkproduction and high Norwegian import taxes, the shops went empty for butter. What to do if you like to bake: make it yourself.

I started with three boxes of full cream (9 dl) and ended up with 400 g unsalted butter to bake and some nice buttermilk to drink.
Well: pour the cream in a bowl and begin to whisk with a balloon whisk:

Wnen it turnes into whipped cream, change the balloon whisk into a K-whisk, if you have, this gathers the cream better. Now at this point don't go away from the machine. Take an old towel, make a hole in it and tray the whisk trough it, holding the towel with an elastic on it's place over the bowl because when the cream turns into butter, there is a lot of buttermilk splashing all around





Suddenly, you will hear that the machine's motor is working more heavy. Have a look and when you see this:

YOUR BUTTER IS ALMOST READY!! If you want salted butter, mix it carefully with a teaspoon of salt.

Now pour everything trough a sieve and take care of the buttermilk. This is really good to drink.
When most of the liquid dripped out of the sieve, put the butter into a clean towel:




Press out all water

And keep your butter in a baking non-stick paper


















Isn't it nice to keep some old knowledge fresh by trying to make your own butter? This will work untill there is cream shortness. That's when we need to buy milk from a farmer and seperate it in cream and milk with a good old separator but I hope I don't need to make that blogpost :-)

Week 26/52 Ro (Calmness)

Enjoying calmness- c Jelrik Nylund-van Berkel

 

This week was the theme for X52 "Ro"; Calmness in English. This weekend we were at the cabin of my sister in law up in the mountains at Synnfjell. It rained quite a lot but when it stopped, I took out the children for some playing while my wife was inside enjoying a cup of coffee in a quite house; looking outside to her two children and a childish husband :-)

There were a lot of calm motives this weekend. For instans those sheeps lying in the middle of the road; saying beeeeh and not intending to move

And on sunday while driving the car; we met the King of the Norwegian woods, Mr Moose, standing totally calm majestetic as a King must be and watched at the strange people on the edge of the road, taking pictures of him

The last calm picture was while looking at the downhill ski lift. Hanging totally calm, waiting for a new season to come

Other members of x52 made these impressions of the theme:
Leif Harboe: Ro
Anne: Ro
Vibeke Prestmo Valestrand: Keip
Geir Ertzgaard: Calm