What Is Amish Butter?

Traditionally, Amish butter is made by churning cream with a high dairy fat content. Butter isn’t necessarily produced by Amish women with wooden butter churns and traditional attire. Rather, it’s made with electric churners capable of producing thousands of pounds of butter per hour. Due to a slow-churning process, the butterfat content is high, around 84 to 85 percent, and the texture is much creamier than that of European, New Zealand, and American butter. For more information on European, New Zealand, and American butter, check out this article.

The high butterfat content of Amish butter will take your buttery pie crust, puff pastry, and croissants to another level.

If you think that you must go to regions where Amish live to find Amish butter, do worry, major producers like Minerva Dairy make millions of pounds of Amish butter per day and distributes it to many “big-box” stores. Look for butter that is wrapped in parchment in its traditional one- to two-pound log shape.