How to Make Butter – The Victorian Way

Thank you for watching. Here are some answers to questions you might have about this episode. HOW WAS HERB BUTTER USED? Herb butter was used for lots of things. Anything where you might want both butter and a herby hit. It wasn’t really consumed as a snack, but as part of meals and is useful to have as an emergency store cupboard item. Uses include spreading on cold toast, bread croutes as part of the savoury course (at the end of the meal: canapés didn't quite exist yet), served on the side with fish or meat (ergo making a sauce), or with potatoes or hot vegetables. It could also be smeared under the skin of a chicken or poussin (i.e. you insert a hand up between the flesh and the skin and rub the butter in, then when roasted in an oven it sort of self-bastes). In a modern context it is excellent with pasta! WHAT DOES SCALDING MEAN? Fanny soaks everything she uses in boiling water before use. It disinfects it. The Victorians were well aware of best practice in food hygiene - they may not have identified germs as such, but they knew the consequences of poorly cleaned kitchen equipment - a particular problem when using wooden implements which are prone to going mouldy. WHAT’S THE LARGE CHURN NEXT TO HER? The larger churn takes several gallons of milk and is a slightly different design. Although we're not completely certain, there is no evidence of another, bigger dairy at Audley End (for example at the Home Farm), so we think that it fell to Fanny to produce all of the substantial quantity of butter which was used in the kitchens. There was even excess sometimes - there are records of labels being printed for selling it. WHAT HAPPENS TO ALL OF THE BUTTERMILK? There were various uses for buttermilk, including stain removal (good for ink) and in cooking. Some was sold to locals. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MILK LEFT AFTER THE CREAM HAD BEEN SKIMMED OFF? Skimmed milk, as it was known, was a byproduct of butter making. It was usually sold at low cost to the estate workers and villagers. DID THEY MAKE CHEESE? Not at Audley End in the 1880s. Essex cheese had quite a bad reputation at the time! HOW DOES SHE MOULD IT? Using a butter pat or mould, well-soaked in water. IT IS SALTED? Most of the butter was salted (it was rather saltier than modern day salted butter, as the salt was a preservative as well as there for flavour). Unsalted butter was known as sweet butter and is occasionally called for in contemporary recipes. WAS THAT COW REALLY CALLED LEMON LEAF? Yes, Lord Braybrooke was very fond of his herd of Jerseys, for which he and the associated staff won prizes. They all had fanciful names: Spermlight and Gossamer were two of the others. Their names were recorded in the herd book, which also contained details of daily milk yields per cow and percentage of cream.

"your mood can affect the butter" Hey folks who wants some depressed butter

At Walmart: Excuse me, good sir, do you have any herbal thyme butter? Worker: Don't think so. Me: Peasants.

"your mood affects the butter" Now I know why salted butter exist.

Fanny blink twice if you’re being held hostage

This is so british my coke turned into tea

day 6 of quarantine, we discovered a way to make butter

"the mood can effect the butter." anyone want some tired butter? salted with the tears of 2:00 am stress trying to get missing assignments done :)

WOW, thanks for allowing me to help make butter. It was an absolute blast, i’m so glad I got to take part. My favourite parts were - scalding my hands - turning a handle for hours - temporarily produce fake baby sick, “which smelt great btw” - being left alone for an hour, waiting for you to squeeze liquid out of a lump of butter. So much fun. If churning butter depends on a mood, I’ve just made a batch of “I can’t believe it’s not sarcasm”. TIAJ

Her: “have you done your hands” Me, laying motionless under my covers in my dark room at 2 am: “yes”

이 알 수 없는 알고리즘을 따라 들어온 한국인 손좀 들어봐유......나만 지금 빅토리아 시대에 떨어진 것 같단 말이야...

Congratulations to the Cameraman for traveling back to the Victorian era just to get this shot.

이거 중독지려... 이 영상만 한 10번 넘게 본듯..? 특히 주걱으로 버터 치대는 부분에서 버터가 겁나 쫀득해보이고 딱 한입만 먹어보고 싶음 개맛잇어보임ㅜㅜ 내가 버터를 만들 것도 아닌데 주기적으로 이 영상이 생각나... ㄹㅇ 중독돼서 한국어 자막 없을때부터 봄ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

making butter was a very... thyme consuming procedure

I'm such a lazy helper. She keeps looking for me and I just sit there and watch her do everything.

I wonder who was the first person who thought of mixing milk by hand for an hour🤣 Props to that person for not losing their patience🤣

Fanny: "Have you done your hands?" Me: "No." Fanny: "Good."

i can't tell if she's roleplaying or if she actually lives like this

ah yes, back when people expired faster than butter.

Your mood always alters the taste of your cooking, especially when cooking for those you love. If you go off cooking and are in a bad\sad mood, your food won't taste right. Just like they say "never go to bed mad" the same should be said about cooking. I literally taste a difference in my food, if I cook angry. When my family says "thank you, the food was delicious" I always reply, "you know why?" And someone always pops off with " Because it's made with love!" ❤