Butter

I did it, I canned butter. You may wonder why I would do such a thing. I live away from stores and have to keep food on hand, sometime in the winter you can't get out to go to a store, and I believe in storing food because a time will come when it may not be available, that's why. I know I could freeze it, and I do, but if the electricity goes off you loose your food.

This was an easy thing to do. I took pictures along the way. I used 4 boxes of one pound boxes of butter and got 4 pints. I used my biggest stock pot and was glad because bringing the butter to a boil for 5 minutes it foams up and a small pot would have overflowed. I stirred constantly, I was afraid it would burn, but it did not.

Separation started almost immediately after I took it off the stove so it had to be poured into hot jars fast. I kept shaking the jars because of separation but I now know I didn't need to do that until they were cool, close to the last. They all came together and made beautiful butter.

I did a google search and found the instructions on this and it is so easy, the cheese was harder.

Butter is supposed to last 3 years, and frozen it will last 2 months.