More on butter

After making butter, I became somewhat interested in all things butter. Probably not the healthiest thing to be obsessed with reading about, but at least I'm just reading...not making all kinds of food with butter.

This article is pretty interesting and I really like the pictures that show the different stages that the cream goes through in the process of becoming butter.

This article talks about the history of butter. Did you know that butter was used as money before it was used exclusively as a food?


The word butter is [supposedly] derived from a latin word butyrum, meaning cow cheese. Did you know that butter has more than 3 times the saturated fat of olive oil? Maybe we should stick to reading about butter!

Here are some interesting facts about the history of butter.

The different kinds of butter:

Churned Butter: traditional salted butter, made my churning pasteurized cream


Sweet Butter: "unsalted butter", pretty much the same as churned butter but without the salt. used more for baking


Light Butter: has added air and water, and about 25% less butterfat, spreads better


Cultured Butter: made from cream that is cultured with active bacteria, and has a distinctive, slightly tangy taste

Check out these butter sculptures...

 Haha...it's a cow jumping over the moon

 We can't talk about butter without thinking about the butter queen! How can you not read this in Paula Deen's voice?

Well....that was fun!