I totally agree. Lewis Road Butter is gorgeous. I tried it at the Food Show. I was so impressed that I've added a litre of fresh Jersey cow cream to my current raw milk order and made my own batch of fresh cultured butter the other day. Thanks Lewis Road.
Even better, the cultured butter milk I get is to die for. I'm not a great milk drinker but this stuff is totally delicious. I wonder what Lewis Road does with their buttermilk!
buzzy110,
Aug 20, 7:51am
Are you aware that butter has to be 'washed' before it is finally compressed into its end product! If they don't wash it the butter will be too full of milk solids which makes it go rancid really fast. It is, therefore, more truthful to say that there may be water in the finished product but the amount will be infinitesimal.
Actually fat/oiland water do not mix without the aid of an emulsifier. I've never seen any butter with an emulsifier on the label.
timturtle,
Aug 21, 4:56am
can this be purchased in christchurch does anyone know!
village.green,
Aug 21, 5:28am
Dr Mary Enig is a lipid specialist and has some interesting stuff to say about fat in our diet, if you can look up some of her stuff. It throws conventional medical advice about fat and cholesterol out of the window.
davidt4,
Aug 21, 6:46am
The best place for them in my opinion.
bedazzledjewels,
Aug 21, 6:47am
Yep - biffo!
willyow,
Aug 22, 4:14am
Yummo - Ican eat more butter and cheese
terachaos,
Aug 22, 8:30am
There is most definitely a difference in taste between butters. Lurpak is beautiful.clever little Danes! Will have to look out for this new one. Every now and then, the best baguette, brioche, screams out for something a bit special. Tararu used to make a cultured butter years ago, that was nice too.
nala2,
Aug 22, 9:38am
Thank-you for this thread, went out and bought the Lewis Road butter today. Tonight we had a pasta with nice crunchy bread, could have thrown away thepasta and just had the bread and butter.
bedazzledjewels,
Aug 22, 6:41pm
Next time just have the butter. ;-)
willyow,
Aug 22, 8:41pm
To make cultured butter they actually culture the butter i.e. add bacteria to the cream and ferment it before churning.Ibelieve that is what the Danes do, and as Lewis Road tastes similar/fantastic, I assume that is what they are doing.The resultsdo it for me regardless of how it isdone.
beaker59,
Aug 24, 4:43am
My grandmother always said Butter was made from the old cream, it was left in the can for a couple of days before churning to go a little ripe :)
buzzy110,
Aug 24, 5:14am
Exactly. That is how I make my butter. The cream, when it is cultured is a genuine sour cream as well and it can be used just as is. It is very thick, (I mean stand your spoon up in it thick) and lovely and tart. After tasting that you will also, never return to that cheap white trashy stuff in the deli section of your supermarket that is masquerading as sour cream.
biddy6,
Aug 24, 10:14am
We'll have lovely raw dairy again when my darling daughters cow calves :-)
quarterpasttwo,
Aug 24, 10:30am
mmm butter best fat in the world
bedazzledjewels,
Aug 25, 12:21am
I've got some Lewis Rd butter! Delicious. Has anyone tried their Artisan butters yet!
vmax2,
Aug 25, 12:33am
Spread a slice of cheese with your wonderful butter bj and then top it with sauerkraut.Now there's a new experience for you.
poppie3,
Aug 25, 12:54am
Hey willyow, we live in Orewa too. You can get RAW milk from a farm in Helensville, it is not organic though. We hope to have our own soon as we are looking to go country for this exact reason!
willyow,
Aug 25, 3:10am
Sounds great
julie_,
Aug 25, 4:21am
I don't know much about raw milk, but how long does it last! Are there many farms that sell raw milk!
angel404,
Aug 25, 4:36am
I find that raw milk lasts just as long as store bought milk - if not longer. Even if it starts to sour there are still so many things to do with it - unlike storebought milk - which you have to biff.
vmax2,
Aug 25, 4:48am
We had some raw milk in our spare fridge, so the door wasn't opened often therefore the temperature was even.The milk lasted for 2 weeks before it started souring.It was still usable even so.In my kitchen fridge the milk will last easily for a week.
julie_,
Aug 25, 4:57am
Thanks for the answers angel & vmax :) I'd like to try raw milk again, the last time had raw milk was when I was a child.Do you boil it!I remember we weren't allowed to just drink it, it was boiled first.
vmax2,
Aug 25, 5:00am
Boiling it kills the beneficial enzymes which help us digest the milk.Boiling it pasteurises it, you might as well buy milk from the shop.
angel404,
Aug 25, 5:04am
This is true and defeats the purpose of having RAW milk!
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