Monica, a former elementary school teacher, parent of a 2.5-year-old, and dear friend, turned us onto the idea of making butter in a jar. The process is simple and is a fun way to demonstrate to little ones what, exactly, butter is. It's actually pretty surprising even to adults: Shake heavy cream in a jar, wait as it whips, thickens, and separates into butter and buttermilk, drain the buttermilk several times, and press it out between a couple of cutting boards.
I've set up a Flickr photo set with 12 images documenting the process with step-by-step instructions. Your child will be amazed and will never forget where butter comes from.
Friday, March 16, 2007
Make Your Own Butter
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What a cool thing to do.
Have you seen the Frontier House series on PBS? They take a bunch of people and plop them out in the middle of Montana where they are to homestead like the early settlers for a few months. It is fascinating.
Anyway, they have a segment where one of the women makes goat cheese and the whole process was very interesting.
We loved Frontier House - Colonial House was pretty good, too, but Frontier House was the best of that type of series PBS has done, in our opinion. (Although we haven't yet seen 1867 House, or whatever it's called...) We also have watched some of the BBC series that inspired PBS' work in the 'reality-history' genre; I thought Manor House was the best - people filled the roles of the wealthy family and every kind of servant who had to live under them. Very enlightening to watch the social politics unfold.
Man!
I thought we were the only people that watched all those shows! Most people I tell this too just roll their eyes.
Jim exaggerates. I used to make my college students watch parts of 1900 House (still one of my favorites) and Frontier House, so he knows at least a few others have watched (although somewhat involuntarily at first).
I couldn't get into the colonial one, and, like a total moron I skipped the 1940s House exhibit in the Imperial War Museum while visiting London (I had to beg the security guard to let me into the museum only 10 minutes before closing, so I zoomed to the enigmas and picked up a couple Turing books for Jim).
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