Sarah, you have no idea how inspiring you are to me and my family! ❤️ I am a young Korean wife married to a US citizen with a small (0.25 acre) urban homestead. My husband is in the army, and I am a homemaker taking care of our little homestead. We want to be much more self sufficient with more land and food eventually. I love your videos and teachings, and they are showing me what I can do more in the future and preparing me for it. Enormous thanks to you and your husband! Keep up the amazing work! Such a blessing to the world!
Love your videos! Just a small suggestion, Ghee; as we Indians call it, or clarified butter, does last a long time, yes, but practically, as someone who has had homemade ghee all my life, I can tell you, that ghee does have a shelf life, after about 18 odd months, though it might not go bad, but the staleness can definitely be tasted. Ghee is at its best if used within 12-15 months.
You are right about that. My Indian friend taught me how to make ghee years ago. She also taught me how to make dahl and roti and OMG! Love it! She also has made ladoo for me and hers are the best but she won't give me the recipe as it's a family "secret". lol It's okay though as making ladoo seems more like an art.
Please note in ancient India🇮🇳 the aged ghee which is rotted or decomposed due to purposeful aging was used as the lotion on the battle wounds to avoid the septic in them. This use to save hand, feet, etc from surgical removal saving organs of solders. Yet it was so painful on application that solders were preferring death than this treatment.
@@austenhead5303 my comment on "shelf life" was aimed at clearing the contradiction in the video. When the video begins, the idea is being floated that ghee has an indefinite shelf life. By the time the video ends, she's talking about how it will last for months. So for many, the question would be, how long will it really last? And as a life long user of homemade ghee, I thought I'd clear the confusion.
I made butter just yesterday. We don’t have a cow, but we purchase fresh milk from a dairy. And recently I learned how to make ghee. Thank you for passing along your knowledge so everyone can learn. God bless you and Kevin.
I loved watching your vide it was amazing it a very BLESSED idea to share your knowledge with people who appreciate what you are doing I know that I have loved watching your video thank you very much GOD BLESS you 🙏🙏 ..
@@2ponshomeplace132 this is very common in India. Most housewives know how to make ghee. You can make ghee from store bought milk as well. We make ghee from 2% store bought milk . You get more from 3% or 3,5%milk
Home made butter, ghee, jellies/jams, freeze dried everything……you’ve not only set yourselves up as self sufficient, you’ve created the best Christmas gift baskets EVER!! Wow, just wow!
I don't know if regular butter is superfood or not, ghee has always been considered a super food in India. But then western culture came and the fitness Industry called it fattening. So much brainwashing
They told us this to make someone extremely rich who was producing margarine. Now THAT was a killer !!! Thank God my mother had more sense,we only ever had butter in our house.
This and many many more benefits. From extracting anti cancer med from her urien to using it's cow dung as shield from UV rays. These are very reasons why Hindus revere cow as 'mother'. And this is why Hindus don't eat them. It's not any superstition.
@@manatee419 No, everything the FDA and USDA have taught us about food is a LIE that benefits Big Pharma through disease. Sugar is the real enemy of our body, not fats/cream. You can help keep your arteries clear by keeping garlic and hot peppers in your daily diet.
Thank you, Sarah! You've taking us though the whole process from the cow to Ghee, & all the different products in between. The best demonstration EVER. Shared everywhere. Well done! 🙏✝️🕊️
I have often heard people using ghee in recipes but it was a mystery as to why. Excellent video explaining the whole process and taking the mystery out of ghee. Do you also make cheese? I can see how having a cow is so valuable. Rose is such a giver!
Oh they have several cheese making videos and one where they freeze dry the cheese for snacks. They have a lovely video list and its labeled well. But watch out. I get caught binge watching some days.
@@Emeraldwitch30 lol, so do I!! But we have learned so many things from them and easier ways if doing things we already do. Honestly, their woven ground cover videos changed our lives! We live in an area where lambs quarters take over. Although we like them better than spinach, it is way too prolific and used to suffocate our gardens. Such a blessing!!
I remember my Granny making butter. She had an electric butter churn and she made the best tasting butter ever. This was back in the mid 60’s and her churn was Crock churned. How I miss her and those good old days. Thank God for memories.
That is what me and grandma used to do while milking the cows.We milked by hand,and we really loved talking to them,petting and brushing.I even kissed them 😂.They would look at me with their big,beautiful and hypnotizing eyes.Cows and horses are amazing creatures,and my favorites.
My wife and kids are lactose intolerant, but they can and do eat ghee. So if you have kids that fall into this category, make ghee and use that just like you'd use butter and you've solved one of the many problems you have when trying to bake/cook something for them that doesn't use milk. As always, a great video. As we are developing our own homestead on our 16 acres of land (currently have 31 laying hens and two roosters, getting 3 pigs this spring, and have 23 4x8 raised garden beds, with another 17 going in this summer), I really appreciate the videos you put out, they help use navigate on our homestead journey.
Best of luck to your family, we're also starting our homestead on 25 acres this spring. Selling our urban homestead up north and moving to our dream property this spring. Excited, overwhelmed, and terrified all at the same time.
You sir and Mrs Darlene are living my dream. Since my back is missing pieces I won’t make my husband tend a farm by himself so I just contend myself with a small garden and canning 😊 we do what we’re can ♥️
Has your family tried drinking raw, unpasteurized milk from a local dairy farm? I thought I was lactose intolerant as well. I can drink raw milk with no problem.
History of Ghee :- Ghee originated in ancient India when the domestication of cattle and the consumption of butter first began. Ghee has been used for thousands of years in traditional Indian cooking. In Hinduism, cows are considered sacred, as well as the dairy products produced from their milk. Ghee, in particular, is held in very high regard, both for its taste and for its nourishing properties. Ghee is lactose-free, easy to digest, and contains a higher smoke point than butter or oil - meaning that it is safer for high heat cooking! i hope you enjoyed reading this brief history of ghee.
This is funny! I'm a painter, and I've been using your Butter Churner bit on a drill to mix paint for 20 years! I'll have to clean it up and churn some butter!
I'm reading through comments to see if anyone else noticed this too! 😉 Kevin could have built her a stand for a cordless drill and the gallon jar, put a hole through one of their gallon jar covers for the paint stirring "bit," and been easier not dealing with that long & cumbersome electrical cord; but time is money too.
Same here. That churner sells for $249! The small company makes it can charge what people will pay, but you could make one for less than $20, if you used an existing drill.
Sarah, you and Kevin are the best! If the day ever comes that my family has to fend for itself, I will be prepared because of you guys. Thanks, and bless you!
What a fascinating video!! You have a talent for teaching. I love learning the little facts and tips you provide in an informative, entertaining fashion. Don’t have a dairy cow or a farm , but am inspired to try making ghee from good butter I can purchase. Thanks always for sharing your life on the homestead. Ps love the way you treat your animals, especially greeting them each morning with such tenderness and affection. They sure do live happy lives
I love to culture my cream before churning it to butter. It makes the BEST butter and it breaks into butter faster when churning. Then your buttermilk is already a cultured buttermilk and you can use it for culturing your next batch too.
@@krankywitch What we do at home, is collect cream from milk (that's first been boiled, and subsequently chilled....please use only whole, pasteurized will work ok too..... but toned will give you poor results....as for skimmed, toss that pseudo-milk away!🙂) everyday in a gallon jar, and add a teaspoon of homemade yoghurt to it every now and then. We store the jar in the fridge until it gets filled (typically takes a coupla weeks or so) The addition of yoghurt helps in 'culturing' the cream and keep it from going stinky.....so once the jar is full, we empty it into the butter churn, with about half a cup or so, of hot water (the cream is cold right, so needs some warming) and then start churning. at the end, what you get, is cultured butter, and cultured buttermilk :-) tips : The more 'liquid' (as in, milky, and not coagulated) your cream is when you collect it from the milk, the more buttermilk you'll end up getting. So if you really like a lotta buttermilk, then you know what to do🙂
@@krankywitch I'm not sure how long the buttermilk can be stored. You can either buy a powdered buttermilk culture from a cheese making supplier or just get some cultured buttermilk from the store and use that as your culture. I put a glug (real specific measurement, right?) into my cream. Let it sit on the counter overnight, then churn it in the morning.
My favorite use is for buttering the outside of thick sliced bread, even sourdough for the very best, for a grilled sausage/egg sandwich. That flavor is just amazing. So what are some of the favorite ways to use it in India? I'll have to ask my Indian friends, too.
Ghee best on shortgrain basmati rice or locally known as Gobindo bhog and boiled potatoes.👍 It was our daily meal before going to school. It is the quickest and easiest meal. 🙏
@@dalepres1 You can use it pretty much exactly like you would with butter (except in baking). Another exception is that you can fry things in it better/more easily than you could with butter. It imparts a lovely flavour that's kind of in between butter and cheese
The brown leftover part calls beri in Marathi , adding sugar makes a very tasty treat. Also cooking rice in same cantainer tastes really great. Thank you for this video
OMG - I am making a big batch of ghee for the first time with butter I made from whipping cream on sale. Thank you so much for the rice idea. I will definitely be cooking some up tonight in the "beri"
@@akcortin I am so grateful I know how to make this now. The caramelized end results in the bottom of the pot is amazing!! Your mom must love having this to give to you. Two way street of mutual enjoyment over a simple yet complex treat!
🇨🇦Sarah, you taught me to make butter with my blender- I’ve been doing it ever since . Thank you . Today I learned how to not only rinse my butter under the cold faucet ( instead of the bowl of ice water ) but also how to make ghee. I definitely will try this next time I make butter. 🇨🇦
Thank you, Sarah, for taking us along on a day of taking raw milk and churning butter. The Ghee looks wonderful and imagine having a pure product to use every day!! Be well.
Ghee is really popular in Indian subcontinent. We use it to make sweet and savory dishes. Ghee tastes amazing if you finish a dish with one teaspoon on top.
Ghee has significant benefits and is one of the most important food items in Ayurveda. Cow products are considered sacred in Hinduism. I remember when I was a kid, our cows were crying one day and we tried everything to cheer them up but they just were very depressed. The next day, we lost our grandfather who used to take care of the cows. We used to hear these stories about how cows are the most attached creatures to humans but I experienced this myself. That's why we call them "Mother Cows'. 🙏
Traditionally the reason Clarified Butter is gently whisked while heating is because it releases more of the solids that need to be taken out for a more pure product in the end. Another easy way to make clarified butter is by melting then pouring into a bowl of water. Put in the fridge and the milk solids will settle to the bottom of the water. The clarified butter will become solid as it cools and will float to the top, then easily separate when in the solid state from the watery, milk fat, bottom layer. The product is a little clearer this way and bypasses the filtration step.
I don't understand why so many call this ghee. In my country the Netherlands, clarified butter is called geklaarde boter. Maybe the last generations of people forgot about the clarified butter our ancestors used to make.
If I want to store it long-term, on the counter or in the freezer, I always put it into a container melted and put that in the fridge. Then, after it cools, you can cut/wash off all of the milk solids. The amount of time and effort put into making it as pure fat as you can get it should be directly proportional to how long you want to store it. Always clean it a reasonable amount but if you're going to use it in a month or two, that basic cleaning should be fine.
If you use clarified butter (ghee) in place of butter, just remember that because a lot of water has been removed, the same volume will have much more fat. So you can use less, and it won't burn as easily since the milk proteins have been removed. It has a much richer flavour than butter, so start with half the amount of you are putting it on toast.
@@pskuhnel yes. It will have a slightly different taste due to the butter but after you clarified it, the salt and all the milk solids will collect at the bottom.
@@pskuhnelI did that this morning, and I took a taste of the foam - - it was soooo salty! The ghee itself tastes of pretty much no salt at all, not that I would have minded.
I remember when I used to get milk delivered to the house and we had no money for butter so we would let it settle skim off the top and manually whip it to get our little bit of butter for the day. Brings back memories 👍🏻
@@flipperc6042 yes, but you ought to use it quickly as it will spoil in 2-3 days. Also the milk solids will be on the salty side, so adjust your recipes accordingly.
Interesting video... Reminded me of my childhood in India. We bought the whole raw milk from vendor. Pasteurized milk became available later. We used to boil the milk and let it cool down. The milk fat separates and floats on the top as a layer. This along with part of the milk was turned into Dahi/Curd using previous days dahi as the culture. The fat usually remains on the top, but can be mixed. Dahi is used as is or can be churned into butter milk. The churning was done by hand tool. Butter easily separates out. It can be used as butter or converted into Ghee.
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This is the correct way of making Ghee. My Grandmother and Mother made it the same way
We always make ghee with butter. We drink the buttermilk in summers and make a dish called Karrhee in winters. I always boil the milk and leave it in the fridge for 24 hours . Then I take out the cream that is on its top and put it in the freezer . When there is enough cream , I take it out and let it thaw. We have big round aluminium utensils to put the cream in . I leave it for a day or two and then churn it with a churner. I collect butter with my hand which is on the top and wash it like you did.Then I melt it to make ghee. We use ghee while cooking our food. Some of our desserts (like halwas) are cooked in ghee. We call it pure or desi ghee or desi ghee . We don’t usually use butter in our dishes
Tip when making ghee put in couple of lime leaves it gives nice smell to ghee and reduces the smell during the process, also I love the milk solids you can scrap it and eat with fluffy rice and some salt
@@theusualsuspect9076 it all depends on quality of milk and fat here in India Buffalo milk is more common which has a distinct smell which some don’t like so we add lemon leaves. It has a different smell and some people find it more pleasant
@Time Machine sir I really don’t which region of India you are talking about but I was born in eastern UP and lived all my life in various parts of UP there is nothing in the world called real ghee. Ghee is Ghee
@@rubanbose As I know, making ghee is a long process, slowly cooking the butter over low natural heat for hours. Here the butter is almost burned, that's definitely too much heat. Preserving butter needs time. I know spare time is rare on a farm, but sorry, if you want to keep all the treasures in the butter, you have to reduce the heat. This is not ghee, but it's not just clarified butter either. Clarified butter needs to be taken off the fire before the color (and taste) changes. Clarified butter is also more difficult to preserve, as the short cooking time means that there is often still some moisture residue (not separated from the oily part). It is to keep in the fridge and for long time preservation (max. two years) you have to freeze it. This white and possibly later brown fried stuff on the bottom is milk sugar (lactose) and milk protein (80% casein and 20% whey protein). First it floats to the top as a froth and you can remove it with a spoon or a very fine-mesh metal sieve, later it sinks to the bottom of the pot and just turns brown if you don't stir and skim it off. Here in Germany we call this type of toasted butter "nut butter" and it's also delicious and has a very good shelf life like ghee. But you can't compare the taste really to ghee from India, which is made from buffalo milk and flavored in various ways. Btw.: We use the cold light lactose foam as flakes on a special Swabian salt cake, according to a very old recipe. Or we eat it as a spread, very milky-sweet and also nutty, if you leave it on the heat for a longer period of time... so, so and so... wonderful.
I still remember our cow Lou and the yummy cream and butter we got from her! She was a great cow for us and the memories are still strong at 73 years old! Great vid guys. How it’s done has sure changed tho.
Amazing. I just learned so much. You are a great Teacher. I would love to live your way. So wholesome. I wish the very best for you, your family and your animal family. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Love the shirt. I have my Moms old hand cranked churn, and the Great Great Gram B's wooden rinsing bowl and spatula. I need to make some Ghee. Teach the Grandkids while I'm at it.. Love watching your programs. JESUS IS LORD!
So sweet to see you with your cow. My great grandmother was about 6 feet tall and had a jersey cow who would follow her about like a pup. My mother used to relate that story, I never actually saw this. You made me think of her. Thank you.
Sarah that was so educational. I have had to sit by a wood stove an churned butter everyday. We would sell the butter when we had enough. We did not know about gee. We have come a long way in my 68 years. That was so much fun to watch since I remember all the thing you did the long way. What you did in an hour it took us 3 or 4 hours. Great show
@@janw491 oh I know. But when I just want a 1/4 pound of butter it doesn't make sense for me to pull out my stand mixer or food processor. Besides, I seem to like looking into ways of doing things during a time before stand mixers even existed.
We used to just hand it to one of our children(in a Mason jar) & they shook it until it was butter. Then I took over from there. Kid power!!! Its a wonderful "invention".
I spent many hours as a child shaking a peanut butter jar full of milk to make butter. Then washing the buttermilk out in a wooden bowl with a wooden paddle/spoon. It always seemed like magic to see the bowl of butter that came from the jar of milk.
You did such a good job with the demo that the website that sells the churn mechanism is completely sold out🙂. Next time could you demo how to make greek yogurt? Thanks so much for sharing
Butter can be made in a jar. Place milk in a jar and simply shake until you see the bits of butter start to clump together and separate from buttermilk. Keeps kids busy and being helpful at the same time.
I use to help my grandmother churn butter, I can still taste that wonderful butter! I have never heard of ghee, that was a great video! God bless you and your family! Love and prayers for you and the homestead! ❤️🙏🏻
Hey, you should search for Clarified Butter. Ghee, which is a word from Hindi language spoken primarily in India, is commonly called as Clarified Butter in English language.
Sarah, you have no idea how inspiring you are to me and my family! ❤️ I am a young Korean wife married to a US citizen with a small (0.25 acre) urban homestead. My husband is in the army, and I am a homemaker taking care of our little homestead. We want to be much more self sufficient with more land and food eventually. I love your videos and teachings, and they are showing me what I can do more in the future and preparing me for it. Enormous thanks to you and your husband! Keep up the amazing work! Such a blessing to the world!
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Love your videos! Just a small suggestion, Ghee; as we Indians call it, or clarified butter, does last a long time, yes, but practically, as someone who has had homemade ghee all my life, I can tell you, that ghee does have a shelf life, after about 18 odd months, though it might not go bad, but the staleness can definitely be tasted. Ghee is at its best if used within 12-15 months.
You are right about that. My Indian friend taught me how to make ghee years ago. She also taught me how to make dahl and roti and OMG! Love it! She also has made ladoo for me and hers are the best but she won't give me the recipe as it's a family "secret". lol It's okay though as making ladoo seems more like an art.
Please note in ancient India🇮🇳 the aged ghee which is rotted or decomposed due to purposeful aging was used as the lotion on the battle wounds to avoid the septic in them. This use to save hand, feet, etc from surgical removal saving organs of solders.
Yet it was so painful on application that solders were preferring death than this treatment.
Ah...but what if you mixed ghee with honey to use as a spread?
When she said it would be shelf stable for "months", I assumed like... four. Or six. So a whole year is puhleeeenty.
@@austenhead5303 my comment on "shelf life" was aimed at clearing the contradiction in the video. When the video begins, the idea is being floated that ghee has an indefinite shelf life. By the time the video ends, she's talking about how it will last for months. So for many, the question would be, how long will it really last? And as a life long user of homemade ghee, I thought I'd clear the confusion.
What a sweet blessing Rose is.
I like her. She's tolerable. She's easy to listen to. Thank you.
I made butter just yesterday. We don’t have a cow, but we purchase fresh milk from a dairy. And recently I learned how to make ghee. Thank you for passing along your knowledge so everyone can learn. God bless you and Kevin.
Do i just find a dairy and ask if i can buy milk from them.
I would love to find a local dairy and try this.
I loved watching your vide it was amazing it a very BLESSED idea to share your knowledge with people who appreciate what you are doing I know that I have loved watching your video thank you very much GOD BLESS you 🙏🙏 ..
@@2ponshomeplace132 this is very common in India. Most housewives know how to make ghee.
You can make ghee from store bought milk as well. We make ghee from 2% store bought milk . You get more from 3% or 3,5%milk
@@jamieflowers3767 you can make ghee from the store bought milk also . The more fat in the milk the more you can make .
Home made butter, ghee, jellies/jams, freeze dried everything……you’ve not only set yourselves up as self sufficient, you’ve created the best Christmas gift baskets EVER!! Wow, just wow!
They used to tell us Butter was bad for us. Then they actually did studies and found that butter is a superfood and we do not need to limit ourselves.
and taste is amazing.
@Time Machine The problem it is nearly impossible to not eat an excess of carbs.
Exactly! It was an honorable attemp to kill us all... lol
I don't know if regular butter is superfood or not, ghee has always been considered a super food in India. But then western culture came and the fitness Industry called it fattening. So much brainwashing
They told us this to make someone extremely rich who was producing margarine. Now THAT was a killer !!! Thank God my mother had more sense,we only ever had butter in our house.
What a wonderful half hour. God Bless you, and, Rose.
I really like it when you tubers show how to use the things that are produced on the farm. This was very informative! Thanks.
Some of these videos should be shown in urban and suburban public schools so that kids have some concept of where their food comes from.
The cow: an animal with superpowers. She turns grass into cream.
This and many many more benefits. From extracting anti cancer med from her urien to using it's cow dung as shield from UV rays. These are very reasons why Hindus revere cow as 'mother'. And this is why Hindus don't eat them. It's not any superstition.
@@ashG1234 Indeed, she is one of God's most lovable creatures.
You ingest the cream then it goes back into Greece that clog your arteries. Sounds like a win win.
@@manatee419 That's odd; I thought the cream went back to Italy, not Greece.
@@manatee419 No, everything the FDA and USDA have taught us about food is a LIE that benefits Big Pharma through disease. Sugar is the real enemy of our body, not fats/cream. You can help keep your arteries clear by keeping garlic and hot peppers in your daily diet.
I enjoy your Videos, but I’ve chosen your videos over other homestead video because you love the Lord and you are not afraid to show it.
Very nice to witness the care that you take with your cows ! No stress or distress to you or her. That’s nice 🙂
Rose, seems to happy enter the milking stand, now. She’s a pretty girl!
She always wants to stay and explore the barn after 😄
@@HJBL1964 yes to find out where the grain is stored .... lol!!
Rose? Oh my.
Yes, she is! 🤗 Rose is a sweetie. 🌹
@@HJBL1964 I thought she was trying to stay warmer. 😭
The homemade cream separator is GENIUS!
I never see anyone clean so careful and care for the cows nibble before you after amazing .
this video made me smaile. Rose was happy today
Thank you, Sarah! You've taking us though the whole process from the cow to Ghee, & all the different products in between. The best demonstration EVER. Shared everywhere. Well done! 🙏✝️🕊️
I have often heard people using ghee in recipes but it was a mystery as to why. Excellent video explaining the whole process and taking the mystery out of ghee. Do you also make cheese? I can see how having a cow is so valuable. Rose is such a giver!
Oh they have several cheese making videos and one where they freeze dry the cheese for snacks.
They have a lovely video list and its labeled well. But watch out. I get caught binge watching some days.
@@Emeraldwitch30 lol, so do I!! But we have learned so many things from them and easier ways if doing things we already do. Honestly, their woven ground cover videos changed our lives! We live in an area where lambs quarters take over. Although we like them better than spinach, it is way too prolific and used to suffocate our gardens. Such a blessing!!
French cooking uses a lot of clarified butter aka Ghee.
I remember my Granny making butter. She had an electric butter churn and she made the best tasting butter ever. This was back in the mid 60’s and her churn was Crock churned. How I miss her and those good old days. Thank God for memories.
I'm telling you, I'm the kind of person that would definitely be talking to Rose and petting her while being milked. You are so blessed.
That is what me and grandma used to do while milking the cows.We milked by hand,and we really loved talking to them,petting and brushing.I even kissed them 😂.They would look at me with their big,beautiful and hypnotizing eyes.Cows and horses are amazing creatures,and my favorites.
My wife and kids are lactose intolerant, but they can and do eat ghee. So if you have kids that fall into this category, make ghee and use that just like you'd use butter and you've solved one of the many problems you have when trying to bake/cook something for them that doesn't use milk. As always, a great video. As we are developing our own homestead on our 16 acres of land (currently have 31 laying hens and two roosters, getting 3 pigs this spring, and have 23 4x8 raised garden beds, with another 17 going in this summer), I really appreciate the videos you put out, they help use navigate on our homestead journey.
Keep moving forward!
Thanks for the answer. My daughter in law is whey intolerant. She eats the fake products instead. I’ll make her some ghee from Irish ☘️ butter.
Best of luck to your family, we're also starting our homestead on 25 acres this spring. Selling our urban homestead up north and moving to our dream property this spring. Excited, overwhelmed, and terrified all at the same time.
You sir and Mrs Darlene are living my dream. Since my back is missing pieces I won’t make my husband tend a farm by himself so I just contend myself with a small garden and canning 😊 we do what we’re can ♥️
Has your family tried drinking raw, unpasteurized milk from a local dairy farm? I thought I was lactose intolerant as well. I can drink raw milk with no problem.
Kevin & Sarah, air hugs over thousands of miles. I hope you feel the love your viewers have for you guys. Blessings.
you have to have one happy family when y'all rise an shine
History of Ghee :-
Ghee originated in ancient India when the domestication of cattle and the consumption of butter first began.
Ghee has been used for thousands of years in traditional Indian cooking.
In Hinduism, cows are considered sacred, as well as the dairy products produced from their milk. Ghee, in particular, is held in very high regard, both for its taste and for its nourishing properties.
Ghee is lactose-free, easy to digest, and contains a higher smoke point than butter or oil - meaning that it is safer for high heat cooking!
i hope you enjoyed reading this brief history of ghee.
Did anyone ask?
@@PKGirpadeGroupOfIndustries About your useless opinion? No. 😒
Ghee has low smoking point than oil...
Who put a penny in you?
Thx dude
This is funny! I'm a painter, and I've been using your Butter Churner bit on a drill to mix paint for 20 years!
I'll have to clean it up and churn some butter!
I'm reading through comments to see if anyone else noticed this too! 😉
Kevin could have built her a stand for a cordless drill and the gallon jar, put a hole through one of their gallon jar covers for the paint stirring "bit," and been easier not dealing with that long & cumbersome electrical cord; but time is money too.
@@micheleolson9914 I was thinking the same, however, what about the battery or corded holding up for that long of run time? Thoughts?
That's exactly what I was thinking when I saw this =))
Same here. That churner sells for $249! The small company makes it can charge what people will pay, but you could make one for less than $20, if you used an existing drill.
That's exactly what I thought if when I saw the metal churning device! I was going to buy one for our drill to stir things up! LoL
I was the butter churn when I was a young one. My sister and I took turns turning the handel. Grandma taught us how to make it. So easy now.
A real GOLD that we forget.
Ghee is VERY pricey nowadays. Making it at home is definitely awesome 👌. Gracias, its delish n so healthy. Bless you n yours. "Isa"
That's very cool! A long paint mixer attachment for your drill would work just as well and be much cheaper! The wheels are turning over here!
As soon as I saw the churning devise,I IMMEDIATELY thought of that!!And I’m an electrician not a painter!
Sarah, you and Kevin are the best! If the day ever comes that my family has to fend for itself, I will be prepared because of you guys. Thanks, and bless you!
Sarah you are an awesome teacher. Thank you so much for this butter and ghee. Have a blessed day. Patty
I love using Ghee instead of oil to make popcorn. It tastes so much better.
What a fascinating video!! You have a talent for teaching. I love learning the little facts and tips you provide in an informative, entertaining fashion. Don’t have a dairy cow or a farm , but am inspired to try making ghee from good butter I can purchase.
Thanks always for sharing your life on the homestead.
Ps love the way you treat your animals, especially greeting them each morning with such tenderness and affection. They sure do live happy lives
I love to culture my cream before churning it to butter. It makes the BEST butter and it breaks into butter faster when churning. Then your buttermilk is already a cultured buttermilk and you can use it for culturing your next batch too.
@Trisha Pomeroy. That sounds divine. I love cultured butter. So how do you do that, and how long can the buttermilk be stored for?
@@krankywitch What we do at home, is collect cream from milk (that's first been boiled, and subsequently chilled....please use only whole, pasteurized will work ok too..... but toned will give you poor results....as for skimmed, toss that pseudo-milk away!🙂) everyday in a gallon jar, and add a teaspoon of homemade yoghurt to it every now and then. We store the jar in the fridge until it gets filled (typically takes a coupla weeks or so)
The addition of yoghurt helps in 'culturing' the cream and keep it from going stinky.....so once the jar is full, we empty it into the butter churn, with about half a cup or so, of hot water (the cream is cold right, so needs some warming) and then start churning.
at the end, what you get, is cultured butter, and cultured buttermilk :-)
tips : The more 'liquid' (as in, milky, and not coagulated) your cream is when you collect it from the milk, the more buttermilk you'll end up getting. So if you really like a lotta buttermilk, then you know what to do🙂
@@krankywitch I'm not sure how long the buttermilk can be stored. You can either buy a powdered buttermilk culture from a cheese making supplier or just get some cultured buttermilk from the store and use that as your culture. I put a glug (real specific measurement, right?) into my cream. Let it sit on the counter overnight, then churn it in the morning.
I grew up with my Mom making homemade ghee. Super cool to see it being made beyond India 🇮🇳. Tastes delicious in rice 🍚
My favorite use is for buttering the outside of thick sliced bread, even sourdough for the very best, for a grilled sausage/egg sandwich. That flavor is just amazing. So what are some of the favorite ways to use it in India? I'll have to ask my Indian friends, too.
Also on roti 👌👌👌
Ghee best on shortgrain basmati rice or locally known as Gobindo bhog and boiled potatoes.👍 It was our daily meal before going to school. It is the quickest and easiest meal. 🙏
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@@dalepres1 You can use it pretty much exactly like you would with butter (except in baking). Another exception is that you can fry things in it better/more easily than you could with butter. It imparts a lovely flavour that's kind of in between butter and cheese
That sweet little cow was so clean!
The brown leftover part calls beri in Marathi , adding sugar makes a very tasty treat.
Also cooking rice in same cantainer tastes really great. Thank you for this video
OMG - I am making a big batch of ghee for the first time with butter I made from whipping cream on sale. Thank you so much for the rice idea. I will definitely be cooking some up tonight in the "beri"
@@maryjayne8746 I am 30, and my mother still gives me this leftover stuff with sugar whenever I am home.
@@akcortin I am so grateful I know how to make this now. The caramelized end results in the bottom of the pot is amazing!! Your mom must love having this to give to you. Two way street of mutual enjoyment over a simple yet complex treat!
I eat it just like that. Also great in lentil soups
@@akcortin That is just pure mom LOVE!
Wow Rose seems to enjoy being milked. Such a content animal she is ❤️. Thanks for sharing.
She’s a good girl
She loves those grains!
What a SWEET cow! Haven't met her, but love her anyway!
I love how cows are always so nosy.
Thank you Sarah, you make such a good "how to" video's. So educating.
I’m 74 & that would have been a blessing for us kids. We had to take turns hand cranking to get our butter 😂. Thanks for sharing Sarah 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
This is so much fun to watch. I'm going to show the littles! They'll love it!
I ❤️ those jars you keep your milk in.
This is one of my favorite videos of yours now. Been watching for years. You guys are awesome!!!
🇨🇦Sarah, you taught me to make butter with my blender- I’ve been doing it ever since . Thank you . Today I learned how to not only rinse my butter under the cold faucet ( instead of the bowl of ice water ) but also how to make ghee. I definitely will try this next time I make butter. 🇨🇦
Aww, Rose is so cute!
Now I wish I had a cow!
Thank you, Sarah, for taking us along on a day of taking raw milk and churning butter. The Ghee looks wonderful and imagine having a pure product to use every day!! Be well.
Ghee is really popular in Indian subcontinent. We use it to make sweet and savory dishes. Ghee tastes amazing if you finish a dish with one teaspoon on top.
Ghee has significant benefits and is one of the most important food items in Ayurveda.
Cow products are considered sacred in Hinduism. I remember when I was a kid, our cows were crying one day and we tried everything to cheer them up but they just were very depressed. The next day, we lost our grandfather who used to take care of the cows. We used to hear these stories about how cows are the most attached creatures to humans but I experienced this myself. That's why we call them "Mother Cows'. 🙏
I didn't know that butter could be frozen! I'm glad that I found you. Thumbs up.
Traditionally the reason Clarified Butter is gently whisked while heating is because it releases more of the solids that need to be taken out for a more pure product in the end.
Another easy way to make clarified butter is by melting then pouring into a bowl of water. Put in the fridge and the milk solids will settle to the bottom of the water. The clarified butter will become solid as it cools and will float to the top, then easily separate when in the solid state from the watery, milk fat, bottom layer. The product is a little clearer this way and bypasses the filtration step.
I don't understand why so many call this ghee. In my country the Netherlands, clarified butter is called geklaarde boter.
Maybe the last generations of people forgot about the clarified butter our ancestors used to make.
@@1Waarheid Grandmother Berglund was Swedish and we grew up with clarified butter.
@@1Waarheid Ghee is the Indian🇮🇳👳 name of clarified butter.
If you call it Ghee rather than clarified butter you can raise the price. Sounds a lot more exotic.
If I want to store it long-term, on the counter or in the freezer, I always put it into a container melted and put that in the fridge. Then, after it cools, you can cut/wash off all of the milk solids. The amount of time and effort put into making it as pure fat as you can get it should be directly proportional to how long you want to store it. Always clean it a reasonable amount but if you're going to use it in a month or two, that basic cleaning should be fine.
If you use clarified butter (ghee) in place of butter, just remember that because a lot of water has been removed, the same volume will have much more fat. So you can use less, and it won't burn as easily since the milk proteins have been removed. It has a much richer flavour than butter, so start with half the amount of you are putting it on toast.
Hello. I have a case of store bought salted butter. Can make ghee with my salted butter? Thank you.
@@pskuhnel yes. It will have a slightly different taste due to the butter but after you clarified it, the salt and all the milk solids will collect at the bottom.
@@pskuhnelI did that this morning, and I took a taste of the foam - - it was soooo salty! The ghee itself tastes of pretty much no salt at all, not that I would have minded.
I will be making Ghee for my family. Thank you for sharing. May your day be filled with God's blessings.
That was an exhilaratingly steep learning curve for me and so much fun!!!
Kudos Ma'am!!
God Bless!!!
I remember when I used to get milk delivered to the house and we had no money for butter so we would let it settle skim off the top and manually whip it to get our little bit of butter for the day. Brings back memories 👍🏻
use the milk solids from the ghee for bread baking.
just a tablespoon or two will add a dimension of flavor you never knew existed.
Do you need to refrigerate the milk solid that’s left over?
@@flipperc6042 yes, but you ought to use it quickly as it will spoil in 2-3 days.
Also the milk solids will be on the salty side, so adjust your recipes accordingly.
I learn so much by watching your videos. I remember my Mama making butter the old way. Thank you
Interesting video... Reminded me of my childhood in India. We bought the whole raw milk from vendor. Pasteurized milk became available later. We used to boil the milk and let it cool down. The milk fat separates and floats on the top as a layer. This along with part of the milk was turned into Dahi/Curd using previous days dahi as the culture. The fat usually remains on the top, but can be mixed. Dahi is used as is or can be churned into butter milk. The churning was done by hand tool. Butter easily separates out. It can be used as butter or converted into Ghee.
This is the correct way of making Ghee. My Grandmother and Mother made it the same way
Amazing. Thanks for sharing :)
Thank you
We always make ghee with butter. We drink the buttermilk in summers and make a dish called Karrhee in winters. I always boil the milk and leave it in the fridge for 24 hours . Then I take out the cream that is on its top and put it in the freezer . When there is enough cream , I take it out and let it thaw. We have big round aluminium utensils to put the cream in . I leave it for a day or two and then churn it with a churner. I collect butter with my hand which is on the top and wash it like you did.Then I melt it to make ghee. We use ghee while cooking our food. Some of our desserts (like halwas) are cooked in ghee. We call it pure or desi ghee or desi ghee . We don’t usually use butter in our dishes
Nice 😊
Tip when making ghee put in couple of lime leaves it gives nice smell to ghee and reduces the smell during the process, also I love the milk solids you can scrap it and eat with fluffy rice and some salt
That smell during ghee making process is heavenly. Why the hell would you want to reduce it?
@@theusualsuspect9076 it all depends on quality of milk and fat here in India Buffalo milk is more common which has a distinct smell which some don’t like so we add lemon leaves. It has a different smell and some people find it more pleasant
@Time Machine sir I really don’t which region of India you are talking about but I was born in eastern UP and lived all my life in various parts of UP there is nothing in the world called real ghee. Ghee is Ghee
We add cardamom.
@@rubanbose As I know, making ghee is a long process, slowly cooking the butter over low natural heat for hours.
Here the butter is almost burned, that's definitely too much heat.
Preserving butter needs time. I know spare time is rare on a farm, but sorry, if you want to keep all the treasures in the butter, you have to reduce the heat.
This is not ghee, but it's not just clarified butter either.
Clarified butter needs to be taken off the fire before the color (and taste) changes.
Clarified butter is also more difficult to preserve, as the short cooking time means that there is often still some moisture residue (not separated from the oily part). It is to keep in the fridge and for long time preservation (max. two years) you have to freeze it.
This white and possibly later brown fried stuff on the bottom is milk sugar (lactose) and milk protein (80% casein and 20% whey protein).
First it floats to the top as a froth and you can remove it with a spoon or a very fine-mesh metal sieve, later it sinks to the bottom of the pot and just turns brown if you don't stir and skim it off.
Here in Germany we call this type of toasted butter "nut butter" and it's also delicious and has a very good shelf life like ghee.
But you can't compare the taste really to ghee from India, which is made from buffalo milk and flavored in various ways.
Btw.: We use the cold light lactose foam as flakes on a special Swabian salt cake, according to a very old recipe.
Or we eat it as a spread, very milky-sweet and also nutty, if you leave it on the heat for a longer period of time... so, so and so... wonderful.
Rose has beautiful colors on her face :)
Pretty amazing. Never too old to learn something new.
What my grandmother would have give for that electric churn. She did it with a crock and a wooden dash. Love it.
I still remember our cow Lou and the yummy cream and butter we got from her! She was a great cow for us and the memories are still strong at 73 years old! Great vid guys. How it’s done has sure changed tho.
Amazing. I just learned so much. You are a great Teacher. I would love to live your way. So wholesome. I wish the very best for you, your family and your animal family. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Wow thanks for sharing love how you respected your cow 🐮
Love the shirt. I have my Moms old hand cranked churn, and the Great Great Gram B's wooden rinsing bowl and spatula. I need to make some Ghee. Teach the Grandkids while I'm at it..
Love watching your programs.
JESUS IS LORD!
To make sure the moisture has gone, we put in a curry leaf when the butter is being heated.. If the leaf is fried then the moisture is all gone.
Smart South Indian trick :)
we love u guys bless u and loved once
Churned butter by hand is a kid. It was wonderful. I love ghee also, the flavor is delicious.
Really interesting seeing the entire process.
Thanks a lot…
Thank you Sarah. Now I know where I went wrong with my gee. I didn’t cook it long enough. You’re the best.
Thank you - Rose is so good
So well organized and explained in order from start to finish
You explain everything so well. A natural teacher! Thank you for sharing all that you do! Love your channel ❤️
So sweet to see you with your cow. My great grandmother was about 6 feet tall and had a jersey cow who would follow her about like a pup. My mother used to relate that story, I never actually saw this. You made me think of her. Thank you.
YOU are fantastic at teaching!!!! Thank you for this video!
My first time seeing this I'm so grateful ❤
I started doing the same thing - making ghee so it’s shelf stable. Good feeling to see those pretty pale yellow jars on the shelf.
Yum! Nothing like home made from fresh raw milk (cream). Gorgeous, thanks Sarah!🤗❤🤗
She's such a sweet cow.
Beautiful thank you 🙏👍😅❤️🙏
Sarah that was so educational. I have had to sit by a wood stove an churned butter everyday. We would sell the butter when we had enough. We did not know about gee. We have come a long way in my 68 years. That was so much fun to watch since I remember all the thing you did the long way. What you did in an hour it took us 3 or 4 hours. Great show
I love fresh butter. I only make small batches once in a while so I just put my cream in a mason jar and shake it. We love it.
An electric mixer, hand or stand will do the job!
@@janw491 oh I know. But when I just want a 1/4 pound of butter it doesn't make sense for me to pull out my stand mixer or food processor. Besides, I seem to like looking into ways of doing things during a time before stand mixers even existed.
We used to just hand it to one of our children(in a Mason jar) & they shook it until it was butter. Then I took over from there. Kid power!!! Its a wonderful "invention".
@@bonniebell1104 i use a manual churn. Got it from Lehmans. Fun to do, doesn't take long and kids can do it too. They come in various sizes.
I spent many hours as a child shaking a peanut butter jar full of milk to make butter. Then washing the buttermilk out in a wooden bowl with a wooden paddle/spoon. It always seemed like magic to see the bowl of butter that came from the jar of milk.
Profound gratitude for your excellent video 🙏...it brought back a flood of beautiful memories ❤️
I learn soooo much from your channel. Thank you for sharing all that you do.
Wow now that brings back memories of growing up on a dairy farm!…. Thank you for sharing!! 🤩🙏🏻🤗
I love canning ghee. No such thing as to much butter. Thanks for sharing.💚
Super cool . I'm 68 yes old and never heard of ghee. So glad I watched this video. Thanks so much for your time and your help. Fascinating. 😊
Great job Sarah, from start to finish.
You did such a good job with the demo that the website that sells the churn mechanism is completely sold out🙂. Next time could you demo how to make greek yogurt? Thanks so much for sharing
You don't need a churn. I made butter for years as a teenager in our Oster blender.
Butter can be made in a jar. Place milk in a jar and simply shake until you see the bits of butter start to clump together and separate from buttermilk. Keeps kids busy and being helpful at the same time.
@@kathyarnold7290 yes. I accidentally made butter by cycling to work with a bottle of milk. (That was many years ago, before milk was homogenized.)
I use to help my grandmother churn butter, I can still taste that wonderful butter! I have never heard of ghee, that was a great video! God bless you and your family! Love and prayers for you and the homestead! ❤️🙏🏻
Hey, you should search for Clarified Butter. Ghee, which is a word from Hindi language spoken primarily in India, is commonly called as Clarified Butter in English language.
I love making Ghee ! Glad everything is going good. Take Care ! Love an Prayers to All!!
She is such a pretty cow.
Loved walking through the whole process with you to make Ghee. Thanks for bringing us along💕 Blessings from your neighbor up the road.
I add thick slices of onions, garlic and ginger in ghee. Add all in the beginning and let boil to the end. Taste is amazing.
My utter got onion flavored in fridge from chopped onions-I’m making onion ghee today😜
Sounds delicious, Joy Light!
@@RobertasArtisticAdventures It takes savory food to the next level imo.
:) Super clean cow! Never saw one that clean - it's amazing!
Oh My Word! INSTANT memories from my youth!!...at my sister's in-law's farm, getting fresh milk and cream! It was SO GOOD!!