I treated my churn girls to a “taste of bliss” at the Inn at Pound Ridge, NY on a Wednesday afternoon in September. Once you step inside this New England inn from 1833, you find yourself in a stunningly renovated space- think neutral nordic with a dash of rustic California. As one might expect at…
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…
What is buttermilk? As a die-hard butter lover, I stand by the traditional form of buttermilk, the delicious byproduct of hand-churning your own butter. Butter-making is one of the few culinary processes that starts with one ingredient and results in two...
This butter is amazing on a piece of toasted olive ciabatta or dabbed into warm noodles for a tasty spin on that childhood classic, butter noodles. A great snack for any afternoon...
The other day I bought five amazing French butters from la Grande Epicerie. Standing in front of the wall of butters, I couldn’t decide which one to buy. So, I decided to conduct my very own butter tasting. I chose two of the most well-known butters in the world, beurre d’Echiré and Beurre d’Isigny sur…