I Won!

My husband has heard me say that more than once and is always quick to correct me.  Well, I'm talking about e-bay.  He says, "You didn't win anything. You bought something."  Of course I know the difference, but I still get excited.  My e-bay purchases have been few and far between the last 5 years.  But here is one find that I searched for over 6 months before I found a 3 leaf clover butter mold for a decent price.  I found a couple before, but they were trying to sell them for $60.  No way.  There are many "antique" molds to be found on e-bay, but I had to have the 3 leaf clover like the one we had when I was growing up.
 
My mother milked our cow twice a day.  Often times, the only thing in our refrigerator would be a very large bowl of milk.  Food was either growing in the garden, in a pen, in the freezer or in jars that Mom had canned.  We didn't go to the grocery store and buy produce and such for the refrigerator.
So the milk was in the bowl for the cream to rise and then be skimmed off.  When we had enough cream, it was time to make butter.  We had a glass hand cranked churn.  That thing was too slow for me to stand and crank.  Finally, Mom and I decided that the electric mixer might be the way to go.  It did work beautifully and more importantly, quickly.

I have this fantasy of making butter with goat milk and using this mold.  I realize that goat's milk is homogenized so it will be harder to separate the cream and milk.  I watched a video on the internet that showed how to do this. So it does seem possible to do this.  

BS believes Dottie Belle enjoys the chase.

Right now I need one pregnant goat.  All 3 of my does went into heat this month, so there will be no May kids; therefore no milk or butter.  Little 4 month old Billy Shakespeare seems to be a kid prodigy in the mating department.  He is just too short.  But he is growing everyday.  I'm only putting Dottie Belle in the pen with him.  I want only 1 goat to kid at a time.