How to get homemade butter onto the butter dish without getting your hands messy? (We're talking about butter made from fresh cow's milk rather than the store bought kind that contains thickeners.) After separating in a strainer the butter from the buttermilk, flip the butter onto a metal pan. Tilt the pan and with a flat ended, wooden spatula, squeeze out the remaining buttermilk. In this way, the butter will not get stuck to the wooden spoon nor onto the metal pan, making a mess. Instead, it will consolidate into a nice lump of butter.
Pressing the butter up against the edges of the pan, allows buttermilk to flow away from the butter and collect at the bottom. Carefully pour that off and transfer the butter for storage or other purposes.
Now you have nice butter for Krishna's offerings!
