Happy Birthday Juliette!

Our meeting on Tuesday was a throw back meeting. We wanted a way to celebrate our founders birthday. I decided to have the girls make butter and I would bake a loaf of bread. After all, what is better than hot bread and melty butter?

I made butter once with my own kids before and it is fairly simple. It does take a while, especially with the little ones shaking, but when it goes from cream to butter the kids get a kick out of that.

I started the bread at home and was planning on bringing the dough into the meeting place.

Then the temperature outside dropped.

Now I was worried that by taking the bread outside in the cold air, it would flatten the dough.
I heated up my car and made the transfer from the house to the car as fast as possible. I left the dough right on top of the vents in the dash board. But it didn't work. However it smelled awesome and the girls loved it.

To make the butter I bought heavy whipping cream and I brought with me some small ziploc containers. I filled 3 containers about half way full, snapped the lids on and handed them to the girls. I have 5 girls that night and I figured that with 3 containers, once they pass it around, every now and then the girls arms will get a break.

While they shook the containers, I read the Brownie story out of the big brown book. The week earlier, we asked the girls to tell the new scouts the Brownie story. Now I wanted to read it to them. It is amazing to me how these little things make such an impression on them and that they remember them.

It took about 5 minutes before the first container became butter. That made the girls so excited and all of a sudden they no longer had tired arms and they were shaking like crazy. Just about the time when the butter was done, the bread was done as well.

The smell was amazing!!

The girls could not wait to put that butter on the bread. They were so proud of themselves.

Even with the flat bread!