Odd Cream From One of My Girls

[trenner]

One of my Nubians gives cream that when refrigerated, sets up solid so I have to dig it out of the jar. It's great when I make butter as I have my butter in under 3 minutes; the record is 5 seconds on one batch. Unfortunately I can't use it for whipped cream or ice cream as it goes to butter as soon as I start mixing it etc.
There is probably nothing I can do about it except to separate her milk separately and just use it for butter but I'm curious if anyone has seen cream like this.

 

[AndreaS]

You know, I buy raw milk and cream from a local woman with Jersey cows, and the cream I get from her is solid as well. I too have to dig it out with a spoon. Not sure why this is? Perhaps someone else will know?

 

[trenner]

Someone on the list told me she had experienced this with Jersey milk (I'm assuming high cream content) and she set it out overnight before she used it. I wasn't able to make ice cream or whipped cream because the cream would quickly turn to butter so I tried her solution and it worked. I now have ice cream without butter in it but haven't tried whipped cream yet.