How to make it
6 steps. Tap one when it's done.
You can turn cream into real butter using nothing but a jar and about six minutes of shaking. It works every single time, which is the best part.
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No stove, no oven, no sharp knives. Tell someone what you're up to, then go ahead and make it on your own.
6 steps. Tap one when it's done.
Cream is millions of tiny fat droplets floating in water, each wrapped in a thin membrane. Shaking smashes the droplets into each other hard enough to break those wrappers, and the freed fat clumps together. Butter is just fat that got tired of floating.
Cream from a Lambton County dairy churns noticeably yellower in summer, when the cows are out on grass.