Bread & Butter Making In The 1850s

Bread & Butter Making In The 1850s

Today we made bread and butter and we made it the way you made it in the 1850s! (well not exactly) 

First we made the butter. We made the butter with the following ingredients and things double cream, a jar and table salt. First, we put the some of the double cream (around 1 cup) and salt into the jar. We twisted the lid onto the jar and shook it for 10-20 seconds as hard as we could (Urmi our Teacher didn't have the muscles). We passed it around until we made thick whipped cream. That made the cream turn thick and hard and we had to shake it for 10 seconds until we made butter and buttermilk. The butter had lots lumps in it and we didn't like that.  Then we had to separate the butter and buttermilk by squishing the butter in a sieve.  It was painful to shake the cream. How did people do this in the 1850s?

We made the bread with the following things... self raising flour, water, butter and salt. To make the bread we had to put 3 cups of self raising flour and salt into a bowl. Then, we had to cut the butter into cubes. We had to kinda knead the butter into the mixture until it was like the consistency breadcrumbs. Then, afterwards Urmi had to knead the dough and shape it into a thick circle and place it in a baking tray. Then she put it in the oven. Urmi made a big mess with the flour while making this, she even got it on Charlie's arm!

We got to eat the bread and butter. It tasted kinda like flour, honestly I didn't like it that much. The bread was really fun to make. I enjoyed it.

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