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From the mid-1800s through the 1940s, the hand-crank butter churn was the most commonly used household butter churn in America. Crank churns replaced simplistic wooden dash churns. It wasn’t long before crank churns were replaced by electric churns...
The absolute classic in butter churning is the dash churn. The dash churn was the primary method of churning butter for centuries, until it was slowly made obsolete by the advent of hand-crank churns equipped with gears. Images of dash churns can be found everywhere from medieval manuscripts...
Making butter is not complicated, yet people have invented all manner of unusual methods for churning butter. From the rocking chair to the stationary bike, here is a list of our favorites. With the combined power of a rocking chair and the energy of a child, we shall have butter! Julius Restein received a patent…
The swing churn is the oldest form of butter churn, and it was used going back thousands of years. Nomads would fill an animal skin with milk and it would turn into butter as it was rocked back and forth while they walked. Animal skin containers suspended from wooden tripods were also likely used in…
Throughout the ages, butter was revered as a healthy and delicious product. It was used medicinally in some ancient Indian cultures, ancient Egyptians valued it as a cure for eye problems, and during the Tang dynasty in China...
From Scandinavia to India to Africa, most cultures use some form of butter in cooking. There are four main types of butter: sweet cream, cultured, clarified and ghee. Sweet cream butter is made from fresh cream, instead of soured or fermented cream...
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