When making your own butter, do you add coloring to it, or not?

Question

Why or why not.

Answer 1

Coloring is just a personal preference. If you like your butter to have a little color to it add a couple drops of yellow food coloring, if not go natural.

Answer 2

Old Fashioned Butter
This butter combines all the elements of the classic Old Fashioned cocktail and consequently finds a cozy place in the holiday kitchen and on the holiday table. Use it with pork, ham, duck and turkey or try it baked inside an acorn squash or tossed with carrots, beets and sweet potatoes. It’s also wonderful as a spread on bread, rolls or muffins.

1 butter log 5 min 5 min prep
Change to: butter log US Metric
1/4 cup bourbon
1/2 cup dried cherries
1 cup salted butter, room temperature
2 tablespoons orange zest, freshly grated
2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar (to taste)
Optional
1 tablespoon orange bitters or Angostura bitters or additional bourbon

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In a small bowl, soak the cherries in bourbon, stirring occasionally, until bourbon is almost absorbed.
This will take 2 to 12 hours.
Place the butter in a medium mixing bowl and with an electric mixer (fitted with the paddle) or wooden spoon, beat until light and fluffy.
Scrape down the sides.
Add the soaked cherries, zest, sugar and bitters or additional bourbon (if using) and beat to incorporate, scraping sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula as needed.
Scrape into a small bowl, serving crock or butter mold and cover tightly or shape into a long roll in grease-proof paper (plastic, wax or parchment) for storing and slicing as needed.

Answer 3

to make butter u need not add butter. u just shake well the cream formed in the milk. its natural home made and even good for ur health.

Answer 4

no because theres not really a point. i made butter once and the color was pretty much the same as store bought butter

Answer 5

You can use grated carrots if you want your butter to have a more yellow appearance. Only use them to dye the butter though. The carrot bits don't stay in the butter.

Answer 6

you don't need to the point of making your own butter is so that you can have natural stuff
however if I wan it colored I mix in a little bit of carrot juice

Answer 7

i don't think is good.But if you add a few drop of colouring the butter will look more interesting n everybody would like to taste it especially kids.=D

Answer 8

You can add some yellow food coloring or some annato powder to it.

Answer 9

Ya I usually add a lil bit of blue food coloring...It makes it look mighty cool...

Answer 10

no, when people made butter in the olden days do you think they had coloring? probably not