Fresh Homemade Butter (and Buttermilk)

Ingredients

• 2 cups heavy cream (preferably not ultra-pasteurized)
• Fine sea salt

Preparation

1. 1. Whirl cream in a food processor until it separates into buttermilk and clumps of butter-they'll look like fluffy scrambled eggs. Keep whirling until butter forms bigger clumps, about 3 minutes.
2. 2. Pour mixture into a strainer (set over a bowl if you want to keep the buttermilk) and let drain briefly. Squeeze butter to extract remaining buttermilk (it's okay if a little is left).
3. 3. Put butter into a second bowl and stir in fine sea salt to taste, if you like.
4. Note: Nutritional analysis is per Tbsp. butter.
5. PER 1/2 CUP BUTTERMILK: 75 cal., 20% (15 cal.) from fat; 6 g protein; 1.5 g fat (1.2 g sat.); 9 g carbo (0 g fiber); 193 mg sodium; 7.5 mg chol.