Obviously there’s some concern about ultra-processed food at the moment which would include margarine and similar products, so out of interest I thought I’d have a go at making butter myself, particularly as someone else I knew had managed to make some.
What I didn’t expect was quite how easy it could be done using a kitchen mixer. There’s little more work involved than beating cream until it clumps into butter, separating it from the buttermilk, adding a little salt (assuming you want any) and forming it into shape.
This one isn’t the neatest, but it tastes great. Proper butter pats might help.
Sadly in terms of cost it’s probably more expensive than buying butter from the supermarket. Ideally I’d like to find somewhere that I can buy milk or cream direct from the farm at a slightly lower price, but given how poorly farmers are paid for milk I’m not sure that’s actually feasible.