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Seeing yet another push for folks to churn their own butter at home, instead of "buying it" --- and I have 2 main issues with that for my homestead/home:
1. As most people commented - premade butter is far cheaper than "homemade" & it takes a great deal of time to do so.
2. I almost never use nor buy actual butter, rather because it's easier in Kosher cooking/eating practices (because of meat & dairy mixing prohibitions), I buy & use margarine
....So I went looking for a margarine recipe - finding this in the "vegetable oil free" category:
1/3 cup melted coconut oil
1/4 cup + 2 tbsp. olive oil
1/2 tsp sea salt
1 tsp cider vinegar
2 tsp cornstarch or other starch powder
How to make Easy and Homemade Dairy Free Butter
Melt the coconut oil by spooning it into a glass or cup and then placing it in a warm water bath. The coconut oil should melt into a liquid within a couple minutes. The coconut oil should not be hot.While the coconut oil is melting, add the olive oil, sea salt, vinegar, and cornstarch to a blender and blend until frothy and opaque.
Add the melted coconut oil and blend again for one minute, or until frothy and pale looking.
Pour the mixture into a reusable container or jar with a lid and refrigerate overnight (8 hours min). --- from this website https://www.everydayallergenfree.com/home/2021/2/17/plant-based-dairy-free-buttery-spread-recipe-vegan
Now granted the notion that I'm ever going to grow my own coconut trees for said oil on my homestead is beyond ridiculous but olive an olive tree or 2 is not... I'm still sort of thinking this through though as by no means do I have a decent set of recipe cards yet, which I'll need once I get my oven working & back to cooking & baking sizably.
For now though, I'm just going to keep buying a large tub of earth balance or similar, every 4-6 months... and a large container of coconut oil every year or 2, as a wound treater & winter skin moisturizer.