A Whole Lot of Shakin' Goin' On

I'd posted last week about our Magic Bullet Butter, which was lovely by the way, but we've been meaning to make butter sans technology for a while. Our most recent read-aloud, The Swiss Family Robinson, was the catalyst for making butter like their family did. Now, I am certain that the Robinsons did NOT have a Magic Bullet and even though we made some magically delicious and super easy butter we decided to try a more authentic method. (Unfortunately, Gil, we don't have access to a churn but that sounds really neat.) The next best thing was to shake, shake, shake a mason jar half full of cream.

The boys shook. And shook.

And shook. And shook.

I shook, they shook, everyone shook. Boy, did we shake. To be honest, I didn't do too much shaking but the boys did. I also was slightly uncertain whether or not we would have positive results.

But... we did!!!

Here's the final product.

And we even had some buttermilk.