Kid-Made Strawberry Butter
Kid-Made Strawberry Butter
Kids shake things up transforming heavy whipping cream into butter, and then they stir in strawberry jam for a tasty, fruity butter. It's a yummy spread for pancakes, waffles, and French toast!
Happy & Healthy Cooking,
Fun-Da-Mentals Kitchen Skills
- drain :
to pour excess liquid from food into a container if reserving the liquid, or into the sink or trash if not saving it.
- shake :
to rapidly and vigorously move a covered container filled with food up and down and side to side to combine ingredients and create a different consistency, such as shaking whipped cream to make butter.
- stir :
to mix together two or more ingredients with a spoon or spatula, usually in a circle pattern, or figure eight, or in whatever direction you like!
Equipment Checklist
- Plastic jar + tight-fitting lid
- Measuring spoons
- Spoon for stirring
Ingredients
Kid-Made Strawberry Butter
- 1/2 C heavy whipping cream **(for DAIRY ALLERGY sub 1/2 C dairy-free/nut-free butter)**
- 1 T strawberry jam
- 1 pinch salt
Food Allergen Substitutions
Kid-Made Strawberry Butter
- Dairy: For 1/2 C heavy whipping cream, substitute 1/2 C dairy-free/nut-free butter.
Instructions
Kid-Made Strawberry Butter
scrumptious science
Friction is the resistance met when one surface or object moves against another. Friction's effects vary based on surface materials and roughness. When chefs whisk and blend food, they are utilizing the power of friction to create new foods, flavors, or textures.
shake + shake + shake
Fill a plastic jar with a tight-fitting lid half full with 1/2 cup of heavy whipping cream and 1 pinch of salt. Have the kids shake, shake, shake, shake until it becomes butter. Dance! Jump! It will take at least 5 minutes. You cannot over shake the butter. After you hear a thump, you've just made your own butter!
drain + stir
Drain off the excess liquid from the butter. Stir in 1 tablespoon of your favorite strawberry jam into the fresh kid-made butter. Spread it on Cheery Cottage-Cheesecake Pancakes and top with Honey Balsamic Strawberries!
Hi! I’m Strawberry!
"Hello! I want to introduce myself. I'm Strawberry—and I have my very own month—May! I'm great in desserts, breakfast foods, snacks, salads, and fragrances. I like to be a part of picnics and holiday celebrations. So combine me with blueberries and bananas (or whipped cream, vanilla pudding, or white cake) for a red, white, and blue dessert for Independence Day in the United States or Bastille Day in France."
History
- The garden strawberry as we know it was first bred and cultivated in France in the 1750s. It was a cross between a Virginian strawberry and a Chilean strawberry.
- The ancient Romans believed strawberries had medicinal powers. So they used them to treat everything from depression to fainting to fever, kidney stones, bad breath, and sore throats.
- Native Americans made cornbread with crushed strawberries and cornmeal; this is how strawberries were introduced to Colonists and served as an inspiration for the invention of strawberry shortcake.
- In some parts of Europe, people once believed elves could control how much milk cows produced and that the elves loved strawberries. So farmers tied baskets of strawberries to their cows' horns as an offering to the elves.
- California produces about 80 percent of the strawberries in the United States. Strawberries have been grown in California since the early 1900s.
- Americans eat an average of three and one-half pounds of fresh strawberries per year. In one study, more than half of seven to nine-year-olds picked strawberries as their favorite fruit. They're nature's candy!
Anatomy
- The strawberry isn't a true berry but is called an accessory fruit. Strawberries are the only fruit with seeds outside their skin, about 200 on each berry. And, to be super technical, each seed on a strawberry is considered by botanists to be its own separate fruit!
- The strawberry plant is a perennial and can last for a few years, producing fruit each year.
How to Pick, Buy, & Eat
- Some varieties of strawberries are easier to harvest than others. To pick a strawberry from its plant, grasp the stem just above the berry between your pointer finger and thumbnail and pull with a slight twisting motion.
- To store fresh strawberries, place them whole and unwashed in one layer in a plastic or glass storage container and put them in the refrigerator. Wait to clean them until you are ready to eat them, as rinsing them quickens their spoiling.
- Strawberries can be pickled! Especially when you pick them green or unripe. If your berries are overripe, make jam!
- Strawberries can be puréed into smoothies or milkshakes and baked into tarts, pies, cakes, and tortes. Or, roast them and serve over ice cream and berries. You can also dehydrate and mix them into granola or purée raw strawberries and freeze them into yogurt pops. Dip them in chocolate or drizzle them with cream. Strawberries are incredibly versatile—the fruit we wait all year to enjoy once summer weather hits!
Nutrition
- Strawberries are a HUGE source of vitamin C, especially when eaten raw! One cup of strawberries contains 113 percent of our daily recommended value. Vitamin C is excellent for the heart, bones, and teeth. When we cut ourselves or break a bone, vitamin C comes to the rescue to help repair our tissues.
- Strawberries contain natural fruit sugar, called fructose. However, fructose is better than table sugar (white sugar) because it comes packaged with other vitamins, nutrients, and fiber from the rest of the fruit. Plus, the fiber in fruit helps slow down the effects of sugar in our blood.
History of Butter!
- First churned at least 4,000 years ago, butter became an essential food. As the story goes, it all began one hot day when a Nomad tied a pouch of milk to his horse's neck and later found the heat and jostling had churned the milk into a tasty yellow product.
- Before butter became exclusively used as food, people used it as money.
- For years, butter was only made at home by mixing cream in a container to form butter lumps. Then, as the butter became thicker, the liquid buttermilk was drawn off, and the butter was washed and removed.
- Butter churns evolved from skin pouches to earthenware pots that would be rocked, shaken, or swung with whole milk or cream inside to separate the fat.
- Eating butter increases the absorption of other nutrients in foods. Because butter is made from milk or cream, it has more nutritional benefits than margarine, a butter-like spread made from vegetable oils. In addition, butter has been around for centuries, where margarine has been around for less than 200 years.
Lettuce Joke Around
Why were the little strawberries upset?
Because their parents were in a jam!
That's Berry Funny
What do you call strawberries playing the guitar?
A jam session!
The Yolk's On You
My friend hurt herself while making butter on her farm.
It was an unfortunate churn of events.
The Yolk's On You
Don't ask me to tell you that joke about butter.
I refuse to spread it.
