Learning to make butter This is a 1954 picture of my Grandma Phebe Holmes McLamb and her great-granddaughter, Jeanie Krueger, making buttermilk and butter in an old stoneware churn near Benson, N.C. By pointing and questioning, Jeanie learned a lot about this process. After cow’s milk soured and clabbered, it was poured into this churn. They moved the dasher stick with cross pieces at the bottom up and down numerous times until flakes of butter formed on the lid—about 45 minutes to an hour. Then the butter, which floated on top of the buttermilk, was lifted out with a wooden paddle and pressed into a wooden butter mold. Ada Allman |
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