{"id":84,"date":"2007-04-07T00:06:25","date_gmt":"2007-04-06T12:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/?p=84"},"modified":"2007-04-07T00:06:25","modified_gmt":"2007-04-06T12:06:25","slug":"fancy-new-old-butter-churn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"Fancy New (Old) Butter Churn"},"content":{"rendered":"

For our first wedding anniversary, Kevin and I received a fabulous antique Blow butter churn from my sister and her boyfriend. (Thank you Heather and Simon!!) We couldn’t have dreamed of a more wonderful gift. My sister bought the butter churn in England, and carried it all the way to New Zealand in her suitcase. After all the drama of bringing it here from the other side of the world, we were desperate for the butter churn to run perfectly. We have have been saving up the cream and waiting eagerly to give it a test run.<\/p>\n

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\nBlow butter churn<\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Yesterday was the big day. After thoroughly washing and drying the churn, I poured in about 2 quarts of cream. Then Kevin and I took turns cranking the handle. It seemed to be working! It was working! We were able to make much more butter much faster and more easily than we could when we were shaking the cream in a quart jar<\/a>. Once we are milking our own cows, we hope we will be able to make many more batches of butter in our wonderful butter churn.<\/p>\n

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\nFull throttle<\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\nDelicious, raw butter<\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

For me, churning butter brings back memories of helping my grandparents, who had a similar butter churn to this one. For Kevin, it is a new and miraculous experience that has become part of his life since moving to New Zealand. This butter churn is a beautiful old piece of machinery. We have it set out on a shelf in the kitchen so that we can admire it as we enjoy the fresh home-made butter on our morning toast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For our first wedding anniversary, Kevin and I received a fabulous antique Blow butter churn from my sister and her boyfriend. (Thank you Heather and Simon!!) We couldn’t have dreamed of a more wonderful gift. My sister bought the butter churn in England, and carried it all the way to New Zealand in her suitcase. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}