We made butter!

Students were skeptical that we could make our own butter.  But after our discussion about how hard it used to be to gather baking ingredients in the days before supermakets, I thought it would make a valuable point.  The characters in Thunder Cake milked the cow to churn butter, gathered eggs from the hens, picked strawberries from the patch, etc.  For our butter, we did not milk a cow - but that would have been something!  We poured heavy cream in a container and shook it until the fat clumped together to form a solid lump of butter.  It took about a half hour of shaking, but we acheived success!  And amazed students!