Making Butter

Question: What happens when we shake cream?

Equipment: 500 ml cream, 3 glass jars with lids.

Method: We poured the cream into 3 jars until they were each about 1/3 full. We put the lids on tightly.

Next we took turns shaking the jars vigorously. After a while the cream turned into whipped cream. We kept on shaking the jars. Soon, the cream started to separate into watery milk and lumpy cream. We kept shaking the jars up and down hard until we could hear the water sloshing around and the cream had turned into butter.
The watery milk was buttermilk and the solid part was butter. We drained the buttermilk into another container.

We then spread the butter on freshly baked bread, then spread some jam on top of the butter. We all enjoyed a slice of delicious bread, butter and jam.