Has anyone ever made their own butter at home?

[TheWizardOfMudd]

On one of Emeril's shows he put whole milk in a mason jar and started shaking it. He said after 20 or 30 minutes of shaking there would be a big ball of butter in the middle. Then I think he strained it through a cheesecloth or something, and added salt.

Has anyone ever done this and/or do you have the full recipe/instructions?

Thanks

[trotsky]

1. We made butter in my elementary school class like that.

Put some milk in a tupperware container and passed it around, each shaking as long as we could. Yes, it did turn into butter! I bet a Google search would find you some tips.

[Alenne]

2. I did it in school for home ec

you just put milk in a jar and shake.

[asjr]

3. I had a Brownie troop when my daughter was young and

that was one of our projects. It works. Just like Emeril says and it is very easy.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

4. I haven't done it that way

I just use heavy cream and put it in the mixer on high until it becomes butter...then drain it

[supernova]

5. Here's a recipe

using whipping cream and a mason jar

http://www.post-gazette.com/food/20000309butter1d.asp

[Malva Zebrina]

6. Have done it many times

for the fun of it.

But, organic butter is just as good , maybe even more healthy if it is made from organic butterfat.

[m-jean03]

7. No -- but I would like to try Yak butter some day!

It's a Himalayan staple. :9

[benburch]

8. We wore out the kids that way, once...

One Thanksgiving, three different people thought they were supposed to bring the whipping cream... So I did the mason jar trick with the kids... They were fairly small at the time, and it took them a LOT of shaking to get it to become butter...

We then strained it in a strainer, and put some salt in and mashed it around in a bowl for a while. The kids ate some on hardrolls. They were MUCH quieter after that!!!

[Atlas Mugged]

9. Of course...

...but I was intending to make whipped cream, mentally drifted, and suddenly had some very, very sweet, vanilla flavoured butter . No great loss, it was great on cinnamon toast. I haven't done it since.