How to make your own butter

Because have you seen the price of it lately!?

I’ve found that making butter at home is less about having butter to eat and more about feeling like a resourceful wartime wife who can make something out of nothing.

And also, of course, butter is great!

Hot buttered toast and crumpets or cold wedges of the stuff stuffed into a crusty baguette with deli-counter ham and a little cornichon.

Flaky shortbread, soft scones, fluffy cakes, chewy cookies - butter makes all of these wonderful things possible.

And if you’ve run out or can no longer afford your several-blocks-a-week habit (you’d be forgiven for thinking they were bricks of GOLD perusing the chilled aisle in Tezzys lately!), it’s handy to know how to make your own.