Homemade Sweet Cream Butter

Homemade Sweet Cream Butter

(made from cow's cream)

 Things you will need:

Food processor (if you don't have one you can use a blender, it will just take longer)

cheese cloth 

Ingredients:

2 cups Heavy Cream (I used non-pasteurized cow cream)

1/2 to 3/4 teaspoon salt

Directions:

Put cream and salt (do not add salt if you want to save buttermilk for other recipes) in food processor that has a steel blade attachment.  Whip cream until butter separates from the buttermilk, which will collect on the bottom of the food processor.  This will take approx. 4-7 minutes.  When the mixture looks very "slushy", stop the machine and the butter should be separated from the buttermilk.  Pour the mixture in the cheese cloth and squeeze slightly until most of the liquid is out.

Put in a glass dish, pat off any remaining liquid off of the top of the butter.  You can use it right away or cover it with plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator.

ENJOY! 

Finished Loafing Shed

We're finally done with the loafing shed.  Thanks to my dad we were able to get it done pretty fast :)

Here are the last of the pics.

FINISHED!!

Ahhhh....makes for a nice kidding barn ;)

And the girls seem to enjoy it!

That's all for now

Have a goodnight!

Part 2 of Building a Loafing Shed

I have to catch up on the building process of the loafing shed.

Yesterday, we finally got the roof on and made a doorway for the milk barn.

 

 

 The roof is on, YAY!

I'll try to keep ya posted

Pics

Thought I'd do a quick post of some pics of our flock.  Enjoy ;)

Crested duck

 Black Muscovy drake

 Our Winedots are at laying age now

 A few of the ducks are finally laying and sitting

~Arael

Goats

In November we added 4 Nubian does to our herd.  Here are pics of them and some of our other goats.

Rosie

 

Milkshake

Milkshake's baby - Elie May

Rosie's baby - Lu Lu

And the three "earless" four legged wonders

Frosty

 Goodnight!

~Arael

Guinea Hogs

In October, we traded a stud fee from our Lamancha buck for two Guinea Hogs.  We've had them for about 2 1/2 months, and they've grown a LOT!  We made sure that we got them unrelated, so that way, we can have piglets in mid-summer.

 

The female-Jolly

The male-Rancher

~Arael

Part 1 of building a Loafing Shed

Sorry for not posting more often...it's been pretty busy :)
Anyway, what we've been doing is building a 12 x 16 loafing shed right beside of the milk barn, so that this winter we can put the momma's in that are due (which is about 15) so that the babies will be warm when they're born.
So the first step is leveling out the dirt so that the rain water won't run under and make it all soggy in there.  Thanks to my dad we got all of the leveling done in one day ;)  (see pics below)

 Oh yes, and remove any stumps or rocks that are in the way.

 The gray poles that are in the ground are going to be the edge of the loafing shed.

 And yesterday we dug three holes for the posts, YAY!

I'll try to post more updates on it

~Arael