Welcome back Fellow Antique Lovers to another "In The Attic" weekly blog where I try to showcase some unique vintage and antique items that I've come across or contributors have sent in to be featured. If you have a unique family heirloom that you have some questions about or come across something "in the attic" that you'd like to share, feel free to comment or email me at
Samantha@lakecountrycollectables.com
This week, my wonderful mother in law has loaned me her family's homestead butter press and I'd love to share it with you as it is exactly the type of item I like to feature in these home-grown Canadian finds articles.
Antique Lovers, meet a roughly seventy year old Canadian homestead/farm style butter press:
This sort of wooden butter press would have been meant for homestead/farm use where the milk would have come directly from the cows in the morning, to the churn (pictured in first photo) and in a very strenuous process would then be turned into butter and the excess buttermilk would be used for baking. The paddles shown in the first picture are used to "squeeze" the buttermilk out of the formed butter after the churning process.
The freshly churned butter would then fill the press and as seen in the second picture, the formed rectangular butter is then pushed out, leaving a nice block of butter with an etched design for presentation.
So what do you think comes next? Recipes, of course!!! You won't believe how EASY homemade butter is to make with modern kitchen appliances. Stay tuned for butter-making and Irish wheaton bread recipes coming your way next!
Once again, thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed this In The Attic article!
