Following the 1 litre of cream I used for the eclairs (It wasn’t the entire bottle!) I grabbed the opportunity to try making my own butter. Yes, butter is made with cream. In my youth I imagined fermenting bubbling cream, and maidens churning for hours in giant wooden vats. Clearly I didn’t have the faintest idea how butter was actually made. After googling ‘what to do with over-whipped cream?’ a long while ago, my chubby milk maiden fantasy was laid to rest. So that’s how you make butter! I had a epiphany and imagined making fresh butter every morning with
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