Comments on: Homemade Cultured Butter from Cultured Goat Milk

By: Wardeh

Wardeh — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:48:49 +0000

Carolyn — Welcome! While goat’s milk and cow’s milk are not exactly the same, both are beneficial in enzymes and beneficial organisms. Goat’s milk is often easier to digest for some people.

If your expired buttermilk has active cultures and still smells fine, I think you can use it.

I don’t see how your leftover buttermilk (if not cultured) can make cultured butter. What you would want to do is just leave your raw goat milk out to culture by itself or add something cultured to it (like your expired buttermilk… assuming it is still good). Or yogurt with active cultures. A kefir grain.

Thanks for stopping by!

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:49:18 +0000

Hello. I am newer to the whole foods movement, and WAPF, I am so excited learning everything. I have a few of questions about goat’s milk, I wonder if anyone could answer? First, is raw goat’s milk as rich in the enzymes and probiotics as raw cow’s milk? I cannot seem to find this answer anywhere. Second, I have some leftover buttermilk, from the store, expired March 30, do you think it would be ok to use still to culture my butter? It is not a thick puddy yet… And third, I have fresh buttermilk from making Goat’s butter yesterday, but it is not cultured, could I use that to make cultured butter somehow? Now I know this may seem like a dumb question, and it probably is, but I am very new to all this, so please bear with me….

I am really excited to get my hands on your fermenting book, I made my first lacto fermented ginger ale, my hubby loved it! That was my first lacto fermented anything, I am an uber newbie to fermentation. lol

Thanks for your time, I love your site!!

By: Wardeh

Wardeh — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:57:27 +0000

Carolyn — Yes, you can culture it with buttermilk. It would be tasty.

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:13:09 +0000

What a great article. I was wondering, could I culture my cream with some buttermilk. I would think it would be the same. Maybe not as tasty though. The cream from our raw goat’s milk rises to the top too, but not too much. SOmetimes, though, I will get a ton of cream, like 2 c. from it, but that is rare. The people we buy it from have various types of goats, Nubians, and others.

By: Dryflour

Dryflour — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:28:40 +0000

My raw goat’s milk separates naturally as fast as it can! I had a glass gallon jug full sitting outside on my porch (exposed to sunlight and temperature between 55 and 65 degrees) and in just one day all of the cream (about 1/3 of the gallon jug) was sitting on top of the skim milk. It had cultured and separated and I wish I had used it to make butter, but instead I made feta.
Now I am absolutely obsessed with the idea of making goat’s milk butter. I wonder why no one is marketing artisan goat’s butter…

By: Megan

Megan — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 23:19:39 +0000

Hi!

I am a 27 year old with a 1 year old, a 2 year old and a 3 year old. We live in British Columbia on 2 acres. I have decided to start living off the land. Just made Almond milk and almond cheese, delish! Our goats have yet to have babies, so I guess we have to wait until April or May?? As you can tell, Im super new at this and have NO CLUE what Im doing!! Any advise or anything would be amazing!!

By: Wardeh

Wardeh — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 00:33:22 +0000

Frankie — We have Nubians. Certainly some cream rises to the surface, but nothing like cow cream. Plus I’m pretty impatient to save the milk that long. How much cream do you get in 3-4 days. Some of our goats have creamier milk than others. Have you noticed that, even within the same breed? Anyway, good for you on getting all that cream!

By: Frankie

Frankie — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 07:12:46 +0000

I’m not sure what kind of goats you all have that you’re not able to get the cream at the top of the jars?! All of our goats (French Alpine, Oberhasli, Oberhasli/Boer and LaMancha) their cream rises to the top. It takes a few days though (3/4) and all of our friends that have Nigerian Dwarves have even richer cream.

We make the yummiest butter and amazing cheeses too!

By: teri

teri — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:47:38 +0000

wow i have to apologize for the terrible spelling! no more posting late at night for me!

By: Wardeh

Wardeh — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:35:08 +0000

Teri – Thanks for the ideas and you tested it, too! I do have a cream separator now – not that I’ve used it yet. I am waiting for other projects to be done so we can build a little table for it and install it.