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Salted Butter
Hope Creamery salted butter is our customer’s favorite table butter. The salt adds just the right amount of flavor to enhance all your favorite breads and vegetables.
Unsalted Butter
In Europe and other countries, unsalted butter is the popular one for the table. Without the distraction of the salt, you can taste the sweetness of the cream and experience an almost cheese like flavor. Unsalted butter is also great in cooking applications such as sauces and gravies or baking.
Hi Fat Butter
Hi Fat butter was designed for the baker. This high fat low moisture product is perfect for pie crusts, pastries and any other baking needs. Although designed for baking, if you smear some on a toasted English muffin, we wouldn't stop you.
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Did you know it takes about 21 pounds of milk to make one pound of butter? And that butter has been made the same way for 1000's of years? Start with fresh milk, separate the cream, then churn the cream until the fats separate from the liquid and the solids form a mass and the butter milk runs off.
While the process of making butter is still the same the tools vary--from small churns made from stoneware, wood, metal or glass to huge industrial automated continuous flow churns. Our churn is somewhere in the middle, we use a small batch aluminum barrel churn that is operated and monitored by our butter makers.
To see more butter churns, more than you knew existed, and some other cool butter/dairy items check out Dairy Antiques.
For interesting information about butter and it's history check out Butter through the Ages. (Butter through the Ages is one of several exhibits in the WebExhibits online museum.) About Our Milk
Although we don't have our own herd of dairy cows we do get all of our cream (the ingredient in butter) from local Minnesota creameries. We pick up the cream in our bulk trucks from Plainview Creamery, where all the milk is from local farmers and is rBST/rBGH free. |
You can buy Hope Creamery Butter at many local grocery stores. Click here to see a list of grocers.