Butter, it's magic. Add scotch bonnets and boom, suddenly there are shooting stars everywhere!! So is this magic hard? No it's a breeze!
I have known for ages since watching a breakfast tv show how easy it is to make butter at home, obviously plain old butter ain't gonna cut it in this household so pazang! Add scotch bonnets! This genuinely takes a little over five minutes for at least a week of joy. Let's go!!
You will need
600 mls of heavy cream (Double cream to us Brits!)
1 spicy little scotch bonnet pepper (habanero would do)
A pinch of sea salt
Yup, that's it!!!
To make
You will love the simplicity of this. All you have to do is churn the cream. But first, let's finely chop that bonnet
Now bang your cream into a food processor/blender and add your chopped bonnet and pinch of sea salt like below
Now blend it for three or four minutes.
After this time you will start to hear it rattle in the blender. Have a peek in, it should look a bit like scrambled eggs
Now tip it out onto a sieve above a bowl.
You will see a lot of liquid pouring out. This is buttermilk!! Your very own! Keep it and use it in pancakes and scones and shit like that!! Your welcome!!
Now give your butter in the sieve a good squeeze to get the remaining buttermilk out
Finally, once squeezed give your big ball of butter a dip in some cold water to wash any last bit of buttermilk out. Then dab with a bit of kitchen paper dry.
Now you have a big ball of home made spicy scotch bonnet butter!! It won't be too spicy at first. It gets hotter the longer you leave it :0)
Stick it in a tub and use on everything
Put some on your fish, your steak, heck even your toast!!
Or if feeling festive, on top of your Christmas tree crumpet!!
Enjoy!!
Did you make that crumpet?? !!! If so, do you have a recipe for that? I love the tree shape.
My Grandmother used to make this butter....that's a million years ago.....I don't recall it being too spicy though.
Mines isn't spicy at first, the pepper in cream mutes it slightly but after a few hours and onward it gets a lot hotter! Kudos to your grandmother for the user of scotch bonnet chillis!!
And sorry no, the crumpet was bought from a shop!!
My eyes are watering just looking at it!
Tears of joy!!! ;0)
Fantastic post just like always @meesterboom.
Thank you very much @gringalicious!!! Your a star!
Never mind the chilli butter! How did you get Christmas tree-shaped pikelets? :)
Awesome post :)
Lol, Morrison's for them!! I used them in my pic cos they go well with butter and they are awfy cute 'n festive!!
They sure are! I might have to put an order if for some for Christmas day breakfast!
Maple syrup poured over lashings of cold butter melting into the pikelets... perfect!
That does sound perfect! Good start to a christmas day! I hope you're fully recovered from your birthday!
I didn't go out on the razz for my birthday... ear infection :(
I have invitations all the way up to Christmas though... I'll be making sure I concentrate on 'recovering' from those nights ;)
Hehe, quite right!
Lovely @meesterboom. Thank you for posting.
Looking forward to trying this Scotch Bonnet Butter...has a nice ring to it. @countrygirl has a good thought...regarding crumpets.
The Christ-mas tree shape for a crumpet.....very creative as well as the Recipe for the Butter. Thank you for bringing your talent to Steemit.
Cheers.
I will happily take credit for the butter and thank you!!
Alas, the crumpets were a treat for my daughter and I didn't make them, I only smeared the butter on one!
No worries.....you have good taste and we all benefit. Cheers.
@meesterboom it's missing now right?
cause ... it looks so good why did you make just one?
So this is the one that stung ya' nose?
:D I can't imagine that must have ouched!
applies to the ones I eat though haha :D
Lol, that was another one from the same batch though!!
so easy! I'll try it!
I couldn't believe it the first time I saw it done! And you get buttermilk! I hope you have fun!
Wow! Great post and explanations. Thanks:-)
Thank you very much!!!
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Thank you! :0)
Very interesting this butter of yours. I enjoyed the post. Thanks!!
Im glad you liked, I look forward to reading more of your stuff on steemit! Welcome!
Christmas Tree crumpets ....awwww missing Blighty now!!!
This looks fantastic, and surprise surprise in goes that Scotch Bonnet again...
Great post
Scotch bonnets, without them it would be an empty life!! Lol, cheers! Have you been away long?
Yes - 18 months - hubbys work. Girls to finish school here and then .....worlds our oyster but this time it had better have bacon and alcohol in supermarkets freely available!!!
Hahaha, it will fly in I am sure and then you are laughing!
Yes, 5 mins well spent. :-)
Yas, we can all spare five!!