Hofmeister wooden butter press, 30 g, heart, made from maple wood

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To enable personalized advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. Throughout the years, dairy-loving farmers and craftspeople would carve the prints from boards or blocks of wood using either hand tools or lathes.

Today, some butter presses no longer have a design on the bottom, but they serve the purpose of shaping homemade butter into a perfect block. Well, I don’t have a cow/goat or make my own butter…BUT… I do have my Italian Gransmother’s long handled wooden spoon. I use a silicon spatula and a very big bowl so i can press the butter in the side of the bowl and tilt the other side down to drain. She has taught cooking and gardening lessons through Kirkwood Community College and has hosted farm -to -table suppers at her family farm. They’re incredibly delicious and easy to make, and they taste amazing served with lashings of this homemade butter.After they passed I was thrilled that my mother passed down to me two very special items, an antique family bread bowl and my great grandmothers butter press. I have my own wooden spoons that I use for canning but when I do tomatoes, I pull out grandma’s spoon and use it.

You can find out more about our use, change your default settings, and withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future by visiting Cookies Settings, which can also be found in the footer of the site. I love making kitchen staples and I especially love foods that undergo a transformation before my very eyes. To use the press, the butter maker held the handle on top and pushed the flat bottom with the design into the butter. I don’t find the old ways of doing things to be harder at all, and I’m a lot more pleased with my results.A good tip is to cover your entire mixer with a tea towel as the cream will sometimes spit out little bits of cream while it whips.

These days you can drive over to Publix and pick up a dozen Christmas tree-shaped butter sculptures to deck out your holiday table. Well, I decided to live on the wild side with mine and just scrubbed it good with hot, soapy water… I know that’s probably not really “deep cleaning” it, but no one has died yet from my butter.I mean, I’ve gone to all the trouble to get a milk cow, skim the cream, and turn it into butter, I figured I might as well stay semi-authentic. The water from the mold will create a barrier between the mold and the butter, so it should just easily pop out.

Press the butter into the mold with the paddle, then rock the butter a bit to loosen, and turn over to release the butter. Any pure cream can be used to make butter but the higher the fat content, the more butter and the less buttermilk you will end up with.

The base of the press is hand-carved with a farm scene with a little cow, made to transfer to the top of your butter. Fresh butter was smooshed (not the technical term) into a carved wooden box or rounded dome and pressed with a decorative stamp resulting in beautiful butter. Finally, Etsy members should be aware that third-party payment processors, such as PayPal, may independently monitor transactions for sanctions compliance and may block transactions as part of their own compliance programs. These packages could include items helpful to making butter, to bettering presentation, or to taking the process a step further. In the event that you consider anything on this page to be in breach of the site’s House Rules please Flag This Object.