Like Buttah

Take some whipping cream...

Pour it into a jar (and add a few drops of red food dye if you're a food coloring obsessed five-year-old)...Shake the jar for a good 30 minutes or so and what do you get?

Voila - homemade butter!!

In honor of our pioneer relatives, I decided to show Ben how to make butter from cream. I was inspired by his awesome Primary sharing time lesson on Sunday where they ate corn meal mush, jerky, flatbread, and dried fruit while they listened to pioneer stories and carried backpacks full of bricks while they marched around singing pioneer songs. Thank you to the leaders who did such a great job!!! Ben even requested corn meal mush for breakfast the next day, but this time with syrup because the stuff at church "didn't taste like anything."

I first saw the butter activity four years ago when we lived in Dayton and I helped out with Primary for the summer. Each child received a tiny glass baby food jar filled with cream and shook it until they made butter. While it was great fun for kids and adults alike, I'm glad I don't have to churn butter, make jerky, and collect buffalo chips just to survive on a daily basis.

P.S. We made a pink coffee cake using our butter.