Question on an Old Dough Bowl

[talesofthesevenseas]

This is helpful. Working the butter in a bowl with wooden paddles happens at about the 4.00 minute mark:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRmu2WwZPLc

[jacon4]

uuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhh, noooooooooooooo. I learned my lesson, i get my butter & whipped cream at the grocery store! land o lakes and redi whip in a can!!!

[mart]

LOL !!  Well, thats the cityslickers way to do it !!   Thats sweet cream butter !!  They should have added the salt !!  Country folk do not usually make sweet cream butter !!  You have to let the milk turn to get buttermilk !! 

[talesofthesevenseas]

The butter I made in a jar was sweet and was soft butter, kind of like the whipped butter that you get on pancakes in a restaurant. I'm guessing that working  it and squeezing the liquid out makes it more solid, like sticks of butter, right? I do have a butter mold, but everything is in storage until the move. I'm living out of a suitcase until late April. It would be fun to try this after the move.

[mart]

Commercially prepared butter is compressed much harder than you can at home !!  Thats why it is more firm than home made !!
Sweet cream buttermilk will not have the tart flavor of regular buttermilk !!  We just fed that to the hogs when someone made sweet cream butter !!  That was rarely done !!  You can use it in place of anything that requires regular milk in cooking or baking but without the acid that regular buttermilk has it does not react with baking powder or soda the same !!