Bread and Butter Day

This morning was very productive.
I made homemade butter, made half into honey butter. With the buttermilk by-product I made biscuits. And I made a huge loaf of sweet french bread.

To make butter, just take 1 pint of heavy cream. Put it in your stand mixer, and turn on high.









You go through the stages of whipped cream.









Keep mixing and you get butter and buttermilk.











Drain the buttermilk off and save for reuse.






Take the butter and knead under cold running water to get all the extra buttermilk out (if you don't do this properly, the butter will go rancid in a few days.) until the water runs clear.

I mixed in some salt in half of the butter, in the other half, I mixed in 1/8 cup honey, 1/8 tsp cinnamon, 1/4 tsp vanilla extract.

With the buttermilk, I made a batch of buttermilk biscuits.

They taste so good with the fresh honey butter on top! YUM!

 We are headed to my in-law's this evening and are having a late "brunch" for dinner. I thought it'd be good to bake up a loaf of sweet bread to have with the homemade honey butter and peach jam I have leftover from two summers ago. I hope it tastes as good as it looks and smells!