{"id":13056,"date":"2011-02-04T11:29:41","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T15:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=13056"},"modified":"2011-02-04T11:29:41","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T15:29:41","slug":"slow-food-columbus-presents-snowville-butter-making-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2011\/02\/slow-food-columbus-presents-snowville-butter-making-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow Food Columbus Presents Snowville Butter Making Class"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Last week, Nicole emailed me asking if I wanted to attend a butter making class with her.\u00a0 She had an extra ticket because her mom ended up not being able to go.\u00a0 I have been interested in making butter for a few weeks now ever since I learned that you can freeze butter.<\/p>\n

Did you know this? I did not. It was the one thing preventing me from making my own butter because I would have so much, I wasn’t sure what I would do with it all.\u00a0 Now that I can freeze butter, BRING IT!<\/p>\n

This sister wants to learn how to churn her own butter!<\/p>\n

I told Nicole that I would love to attend the class with her and I showed up bright and early (as early as one can be for a 1pm class) on Sunday armed with mason jars ready to fill my brain with butter making knowledge.<\/p>\n

Plus I got to spend the afternoon with these two lovely ladies!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Nicole<\/a> on the left and Wendy<\/a> on the right.\u00a0 If you recall, I met Wendy at the Market District opening.<\/a> I was happy to see her smiling face walk in the door because that meant I got a chance to chat with her and another friend was taking the class!<\/p>\n

This class filled up with people coming in long after it started.\u00a0 This was the third class that Slow Food Columbus<\/a> and Snowville<\/a> put on.\u00a0 Their first two were so successful and sold out quickly, so they decided to add on a third.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The class was led by Snowville representative and honest dairy milk advocate, Warren.\u00a0 I had the pleasure of sharing a dinner with Warren, gosh two years ago now, at a Hills Market function.\u00a0 I was very happy to be able to have the chance to attend one of his classes.<\/p>\n

The class was two hours long and the majority of the time Warren was talking to us about dairy and the difference between grass-fed and feed-fed dairy.\u00a0 He gave us a brief history of the dairy industry, what pasteurization for milk means and how Snowville handles their cows and milk.<\/p>\n

Once Warren gets going, time can get away from him but only because he’s so passionate about what he does.\u00a0 The butter making portion of the class ended up being a little rushed but that was okay because we still learned a great deal.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>We each brought QT sized mason jars, which were then filled about 1\/3 of the way with Snowville Whipping Cream.\u00a0 We sealed the lids up tight and got our shimmy-shake on.\u00a0 You can make whipped cream and butter just by shaking a jar.\u00a0 Did you know that?\u00a0 I shook and shook and then my cream entered the whipped cream stage.<\/p>\n

Don’t stop there! Keep going!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Keep going and then the cream will break and separate into two elements, butter and buttermilk.<\/p>\n

Once we got to this stage we stopped and were instructed to finish the process at home.\u00a0 They were also demonstrating the process at the kitchen.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This huge jar of whipped cream was going to be transferred to a stand mixer so that it could be taken to the next stage of separation.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Once separation occurs, drain off the buttermilk and squeeze the butter to release more buttermilk.\u00a0 Then you repeat the process a few times and you have butter!<\/p>\n

Basic explanation but I intend to do a more in-depth one all about butter.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>When I got home I drained off the buttermilk from the mason jar and rinsed off the butter until all the buttermilk was released.\u00a0 I was left with fresh butter!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Spread on bread and enjoy!<\/p>\n

Have you ever made your own butter? Are you interested in learning?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, Nicole emailed me asking if I wanted to attend a butter making class with her.\u00a0 She had an extra ticket because her mom ended up not being able to go.\u00a0 I have been interested in making butter for a few weeks now ever since I learned that you can freeze butter. Did you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58,79,80],"tags":[44],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-3oA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}