How to make butter from one ingredient: an ingenious life hack

Butter is an indispensable product at home, often used in baking, for preparing first and second courses, or as an addition to toast or sandwiches. If you're not entirely sure about the quality of store-bought butter or if the price is just too high, as is often the case, you can easily make it at home with just one ingredient.

Food blogger Maria Salei (mashka_salei) shared how to make one-ingredient butter at home on her Instagram page.

Ingredients:

• cream/sour cream

Method of preparation:

1. Pour cream or sour cream into a 1.5-liter bottle.

2. Close the bottle and whisk until smooth and thick. If you use cream, the process takes about 7 minutes.

3. Next, squeeze the butter out of the bottle and place it in ice water. Let it stand for a while.

4. Squeeze the butter, shape it, put it in a container or on parchment, and put it in the refrigerator to harden.

Some tips from the food blogger:

• It takes about 7 minutes to make butter from store-bought cream, and 10 minutes or more if you use homemade cream.
• Cream or sour cream should be at room temperature for making butter.
• The amount of butter depends on the fat content of the sour cream or cream.