Amish Butter: The Best Butter - Shislers Cheese House (2024)

FAQs

Why is Amish butter so expensive? ›

Companies often rely on Amish farmers to provide cows' milk for their butter and hire Amish employees. The cows are often pasture-raised, which means that they graze on grass and live outside the confines of barns.

Amish butter: Amish butter is similar to American butter, but producers make it by churning fresh cream with higher fat content, which they then roll into one- and two-pound logs. American butter contains eighty percent butterfat, while Amish butter contains eighty-four to eighty-five percent.

Like other butters, it's a good idea to keep it refrigerated so it lasts longer. However, you can keep a week's worth of butter on your counter in a butter dish without risking spoilage. With a butter crock, it may last at cool room temperature even longer.

The cheese tastes just like havarti and is popularly used for melting in fondue recipes. Amish butter cheese is enjoyed by many as a snack.

Traditional Amish butter is made by churning cream that has a high dairy fat content. Because of this high butterfat content (around 84%), it's a lot creamier in texture than European and American butter.

Raw butter with a cheesy smell is normal. And that smell usually does not transfer to the taste. Raw butter will become more rich, bold, and flavorful over time... and yes may smell cheesy. It's fermentation!

Why is the butter so yellow? Our cows eat fresh, pasture grass resulting in their milk containing more beta-carotene. Beta-carotene is the same pigment that gives carrots and pumpkins their orange color. In the same way, it makes our butter a deeper, more golden yellow.

Market Tip: You can buy a 10 lb roll and freeze some of it. It's just as good once it's thawed out! I Love this butter and am very familiar with it but what's a good way to store it. Like I just put in a plastic ziplock container.

How to tell if butter is bad? ›

Any sour or off-putting smell means it's a goner. Same goes for taste: If it tastes sour or off, toss it out.

What makes Amish cheese special is the care that goes into each package. Amish cheese is made with cow's milk and the milk is free of hormones or additives. Each type of cheese is made in a small batch instead of an extremely large batch such as mass produced cheese companies.

It is also a good snack cheese as it is semi-soft and very easy to slice or cube. Many restaurants located near Amish counties feature butter cheese on their sandwiches and burgers. Try melting it in a grilled cheese or adding it to your favorite pasta dishes.

As a spreadable cheese, it's great on crackers or crostini. We like to dollop butterkäse on pizza, fold it into omelets, or make some out-of-this-world mac and cheese. If you're drinking beer with butterkäse, a pilsner, pale ale, kolsch, or a slightly sweet German weiss beer will fill the bill.

Unfortunately for butter aficionados everywhere, Animal Farm butter is only sold to the general public one day per year via Saxelby Cheesemongers online, and at Middlebury Food Co-Op in Middlebury, Vermont. A single one-pound bag of this fabled butter will set dairy enthusiasts back $50, before shipping.

Record butter prices come as world dairy processors have been devoting more milk to making cheese, demand for which has been soaring for foods like pizza. Butter, meanwhile, has enjoyed a demand tailwind since consumers started stockpiling more at home following the Covid-19 pandemic.