Butter Making

As part of our Katie Morag topic we are looking at Grannie Island's farm. One of the things that Grannie Island might do is to churn butter. Primary 1 were very lucky today. They had a very special visitor called Mrs McNair. Mrs McNair explained that butter was made from cream and then helped us to make our very own butter.
We had to 'churn' the butter by shaking it lots and lots of times. Everyone had a turn at this. Even Mrs Ayres and Miss McCabe!

When it was thicker, Mrs McNair put the butter into a bowl. She had to take out the buttermilk then she showed us how to pat the butter to take out the extra liquid.

Some people thought that it looked a bit like ice-cream when it was ready.

We spread the freshly made butter on some crackers.

Then we enjoyed eating it. It was really tasty!