Canning (bottle) Butter for Home Storage

Canning (Bottle) Butter for Home Storage

Think if you were in a situation where you had to live off your food storage. You will be eating A LOT of bread. Don't you think some REAL butter would be nice to store too? Only real butter will can and store without separating into chemicals and water. ** USE ONLY GOOD QUALITY REAL BUTTER **
Method #1
1. Use only the highest quality butter: Land O Lakes brand or equivalent. I used Costco brand, and that worked well too.
2. Heat super clean (prewashed) ½ pint wide mouth jars in 250 degree oven for 20 minutes, without rings or seals.
3. While jars heat, melt butter slowly in double boiler until it comes to a slow boil. Reduce heat and boil for 2 minutes. Using a large spatula, stir the bottom of the pot often to keep the butter from scorching. (If you cut the butter into large chunks, it will melt more evenly.)
4. While butter is cooking put rings and seals for jars in water and bring to a slow boil.
5. Stirring the melted butter from the bottom to the top with a soup ladle pour the melted butter carefully into heated jars through a canning jar funnel. Leave 3/4" of headspace in the jar, which allows room for the shaking process. Be careful not to get any butter on rim of jar. If you do get butter on the rim be sure to wipe it off well.
6. Add lid and ring and close securely. Careful, they're very HOT!! They will seal as they cool.
7. Shake jars often as soon as they are cool enough to handle to prevent separation. Cool at room temperature. You can put them in the refrigerator once they are cool enough to handle - BUT - you must shake them every 2-3 minutes, as they will set up very fast this way.
8. Once the butter is set it will store for 2-3 or 3-5 years on your cool storage room shelves. There are some that say butter stored this way will store indefinitely. You can then take the butter out of the refrigerator and it will remain “mixed” at room temperature just like when you bought it at the store.
Method #2 On step #3 - In the microwave melt one pound of butter at a time in a four cup measuring cup and just pour the melted butter from the measuring cup into the heated canning jars.It takes about 2-3 minutes to melt a pound of butter.(One pound of butter will fill 3 half-pint jars)
Method #3 On step #3 - Put solid butter in canning jars in the oven on low until the butter heats up enough to melt in the jars.
When the butter has cooled, You can pack the jars in a white 5 gallon storage bucket with cardboard slats between each vertical row of jars to prevent breakage when the bucket is moved. I can fit 35 half-pint jars in this size bucket.
You can also buy canned butter, although it is fairly expensive. It is really good, just like pure sweet butter out of the fridge! Here is a link where you can buy already canned butter. It's Red Feather Brand Pure Creamery Butter, and sometimes it's available at Macey's. http://www.intemet-grocer.netlbutter.htm
One pound of butter will fill 3 half-pint jars (4 pounds of butter will fill a dozen half-pint jars)Trick : If butter goes rancid you can heat it until the whey separates from the butter, run a paper towel over the whey to remove it, then let the butter cool down and solidify again.