On Monday night, our daring dairy divas Cheenius and Butter Boy, after honing their churning technique at home, presented their butter knowledge to an eager group at a crowded Transition Charlottesville Skill Share session. The presentation was fantastic, complete with expert commentary, audience participation, butter trivia and jokes (we learned there are no funny butter jokes), and buttermilk shooters. We tasted the final product on tasty Great Harvest bread and those of us who paid attention to the email and brought containers (thank you for your spare, Rachel!) took home some of the freshly churned gold. Your intrepid reporter’s favorite aspect of the evening was learning about making butter in a jar: pour in some cream, shake it for about 25 minutes — OR throw the jar in a backpack and go for a hike, ride a horse, mountain bike, etc etc etc — and boom, you have butter. Look for a Haute Pasture Research Experiment Report on that soon.
Thank you Cheenius and Butter Boy for a delicious evening!
(we started with this)
(then we took turns churning)
(and we took turns shaking)
(we peeked a couple times for status updates)
(we did not use Cheenius’ antique butter stamp)
(the jar butter is almost done)
(butter vehicles)
(it’s ready!)
(the jar butter)
(rinsing the churned butter)
(we did it! let’s eat!)
