Churning butter with old-fashioned dasher churn, East Aurora, N.Y., 1905. Keystone View Co./Library of Congress. The slow pace of progress in churns was not for lack of trying.

Because glass churns contained only a small amount of cream, they made butter much faster than the bigger, older churns. (Of course, they made less butter, so you probably had to make butter more ...

(Yes, a butter churn makes an appearance in “Little House in the Big Woods,” the first book in the series by Laura Ingalls Wilder.) Lifestyle. Not everyone hates being stuck at home.

"It gets tiring," said Casagrande, the butter-churn owner. "That's why it's good to have a butter-churning party." Enlarge this image. Riley Casagrande churns butter with her dad Jerry Casagrande.

The butter churn sold by Lehman’s is an updated version of an American classic: the Dazey, which was created in 1904. Lehman’s bought the Dazey brand in 2013 and introduced a new version ...

It’s the same butter that the chef Thomas Keller serves at the French Laundry and Per Se — and that retails for an eye-popping $60 per pound. But at 65, she was ready to retire.

Ms. St. Clair had spent the previous 22 years making the most sought-after small-batch cultured butter in the United States. It’s the same butter that the chef Thomas Keller serves at the French ...