Kitchen Chemistry - Making Butter

Shaking the cream

Today in Room Four we made butter.  It is quite a simple list of ingredients as you will see!  Eating a jam sandwich with fresh home made butter was a nice way to finish the day!  We also practiced making a list of instructions.  We watched a video clip about the process of making butter, and used this information to write our own list of instructions.  

Here is Jessie's list of instructions for making butter:

Title: Making butter 

Goal: To make butter 

Materials:

• 150 ml Cream (leave out of the fridge for four hours so it is not cold)
• Pinch of salt
• Bread
• Glass of water 
• Glass jar with a lid
• 1 Bowl
• 1 Cup
• 1 Knife 

Steps:

1.  Pour cream into a jar and close lid very tight

2.  Shake in nice, slow, controlled movements (about one shake every second for 3 minutes)

3.  Drain out the butter milk into a cup

4.  Pour a glass of water into your butter jar and put lid on

5.  Shake it to rinse the butter

6.  Pour out the water into a cup

7.  Add a pinch of salt and mix

8.  Spread butter onto bread

9.  EAT :)

Half way through

            

               Rinsing the butter

Our butter is made!

Results of our efforts!