A couple of weeks ago the girls made butter. This was scheduled into Natalie's science lessons (the changing nature of mixtures) but it has also come up quite often via Little House on the Prairie.
It was fun to do - I remember loving to make butter as a child too.
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| Mixing, mixing, mixing ........... |
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| Draining/squashing out the buttermilk |
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| Our substitute butter pats |
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Our pat of butter
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And we used some in Charlie's "Owt of Lenton Tarte" which I though quite appropriate. Charlie and I have recently done an online course on royal food in late middle ages and he made this pie, so called as it has all the ingredients in it that you are not supposed to eat during lent, ie butter, cream and cheese. It's basically a cheese pie and it tasted surprisingly good.
Our filling was more liquidy than the one in the recipe and so it oozed out and burned a bit on the tray, but that didn't affect the pie really.
Charlie insisted on making the pastry too - it worked very well. And it was the first time I/we had made a pie without using a pie dish - the pastry was "pleated" and stood up by itself!
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| On its way into the oven |
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| And now out of the oven |
