For ten minutes I tried to take a decent picture of what fresh cream looks like coming off a spoon - only to realize that my camera doesn't do close-ups very well. Here is the best of the several blurry photos I took. Fresh, raw cream hangs in drips from the lid of its jar. It slides off of a spoon in a thick lump, almost like yogurt but not really. It's incredible to pour the skimmed cream into a bowl because the mass of heavy, thick (delicious) cream glops in instead of streaming out like the small bit of skim milk at the bottom. You know how Emerald Lagasse is always talking about the "essence" of this or that? Raw milk has an essence of cow. Cow in it's purest form. People who've never had raw milk before are usually surprised by it when they first taste the difference. It is the difference between store-bought cookies, and the ones that your mama makes (or your friends mama if yours always burns a cookie). Real cream doesn't behave like store cream at all. Making butter can take over an hour in the Kitchenaid if the cream isn't left out to "age" for 8-12 hours first (something to do with proteins breaking down so that the cream will separate into fat & buttermilk) - then it still takes a half hour!
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