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buzzycrumbhunger

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10. I remember making butter in Girl Scouts
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 10:12 PM
11 hrs ago

We put cream in a Tupperware container and shook or rolled it around until we’d all jostled it, and darned if there wasn’t butter by the time it went around the circle. Not sure why we didn’t just use an ice cream churn (without the ice and rock salt), but I suppose we were doing the minimalist thing because we were camping.

I was so bummed when my daughter tried Scouts because all they wanted to “teach” was crap like makeup and cookie sales. I don’t think they even did camping, so she dropped out and came along on her older brother’s Boy Scout things (I was a leader, and we kept kids involved by encouraging family activities/camping).

Yes, I’m jumping on the butter part only. Gives me the heebie jeebies thanking the orange shitgibbon for anything… Should he get credit for anything positive when it always stems from negative actions?

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I have one good thing to say about trump [View all] tulipsandroses 13 hrs ago OP
Okay.. So, tell us how to make butter in a stand mixer... hlthe2b 13 hrs ago #1
I accidentally made butter when I was a child with just a hand mixer. Irish_Dem 13 hrs ago #3
Yeah, eons ago, I remember seeing my grandmother's friend make butter - but the mixer makes it easy peasy tulipsandroses 12 hrs ago #5
Thanks! hlthe2b 12 hrs ago #8
How do you flavor it and when in the manufacturing process? KS Toronado 11 hrs ago #15
The butter sounds good JBTaurus83 13 hrs ago #2
I was hoping Trump's terminal diagnosis had been confirmed due to eating too much butter. Irish_Dem 13 hrs ago #4
Trump would make DAMN FINE fertilizer, and/or food for worms!!!!! Jack Valentino 12 hrs ago #6
Not quite excellent fertilizer. The fat fromBig Macs detracts from high quality fertilizer. Still - I drive past his 3Hotdogs 10 hrs ago #18
since when does 'animal fat' not make good fertilizer?? Jack Valentino 10 hrs ago #19
BFI, formally one of the biggest sanitation companies, started an experimental composting facility in Freeport, Maine. 3Hotdogs 10 hrs ago #20
Okay then. Ima need a link to your ice cream youtube then. Maru Kitteh 12 hrs ago #7
I've tried a bunch of recipes but always come back to this one. It makes the creamiest ice cream tulipsandroses 11 hrs ago #9
Thanks :) Maru Kitteh 11 hrs ago #11
I remember making butter in Girl Scouts buzzycrumbhunger 11 hrs ago #10
I'm being a bit facetious thanking him, but had it not been for this terrible economy, I wouldn't have been looking tulipsandroses 11 hrs ago #12
Yep, my second grade teacher had us make butter Tanuki 11 hrs ago #13
Can probably use the whey in baking. nilram 11 hrs ago #14
In my youth on the farm, we milked our own cows.... lastlib 10 hrs ago #16
About making ice cream AverageOldGuy 10 hrs ago #17
that sound intriguing Kali 10 hrs ago #23
what are you paying for heavy cream? Kali 10 hrs ago #21
making your own stuff always cheaper. pansypoo53219 10 hrs ago #22
Thanks for a wonderful thread mahina 10 hrs ago #24
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