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Packing PastureLand butter 2, originally uploaded by PastureLand Cooperative.
This is the first of several videos from watching PastureLand butter churned and packed at Pine River Dairy earlier this week. More coming over the next few weeks. Thought this was a good one to get everyone thinking about buttery mashed potatoes, whisky butter sauce for pecan pies, and other buttery Thanksgiving recipes.
This is the WWII era machine that packs our butter into one pound blocks. The machine was made by Blanchete, a Canadian manufacturer, long gone. We have tried to find an attachment that would allow us to pack butter in quarter pound sticks but they are rare, and very expensive. Most of the small dairy processing plants like Pine River Dairy went out of business in the 70s – 90s, and much of the machinery like this was shipped to plants in Asia.
Happy cooking and baking, and happy Thanksgiving from all of us at PastureLand!
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