We learned all about churning butter! Due to unforeseen circumstances, we were not able to churn butter the day we read about it, but we had fun none-the-less!
As far as the curriculum I have put together, I have already made a few minor changes. Mistakes I made or crafts/lessons I wanted to add in. So I am making pencil marks in there so that I can make the necessary changes to my Master Copy on the computer.
Below are some pictures of our crafts and churning butter from the last couple days!
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| Butterchurn Booklet |
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| Attic Treasure Accordion Book |
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| Building a chimney... |
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| Sterilized Cooking Utensils... |
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| Why are we grating a carrot? We are preparing to dye our butter just like LHOP! However, due to our somewhat testy grater, I chose to use the Magic Bullet instead... |
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| Time to scald some milk... |
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| Then add the shredded carrot... |
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| Mix... |
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| Scald... |
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| After scalding our carrot-milk, we strain the carrot pieces out... |
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| Add the carrot-milk to the jar... |
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Add three cups of cold full cream...
 | | What I really wanted to use to churn our milk was our butter churn that was my great-grandparents, but there is a crack in the base of the jar that someone put it in years before we got it... |
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So....we attempted to do it using a mason jar:
That was taking MORE time than it was worth....so we switched to modern appliances:
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| Little butter buds starting to appear! |
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| WE HAVE BUTTER!!!! |
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| Draining the butter milk off... |
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| Our yummy buttermilk! |
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| The finished product! |
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| Fresh butter and buttermilk mean that we need to make buttermilk biscuits! |
You can find the recipe I used for the biscuits here:
Southern Buttermilk Biscuits |
And fresh butter and buttermilk biscuits mean......a tea party!
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Hope you enjoyed pictures of our buttery day like we did!
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