Looking for butter-making lessons

A friend has her great-grandmother's butter churn and would like to show her children how butter was made in days gone by. Problem is, we have no clue!
I searched the web a bit, but everything I find starts with "fresh-squeezed" milk (so to speak). Being city-dwellers with no access to farm-fresh milk (not to mention, no idea what to do if we had it!), any ideas on how to accomplish said history lesson would be greatly appreciated.
Can we start the process with whole milk or whipping cream? or does the pasteurization make that not an option? Do we still need to "age" it as described with the fresh milk?
Thanks in advance--

Good question... I, too, am intrigued and searching the web...

We used to have students (elementary age) Make some butter as a class effort.
Use Heavy or whipping Cream right from the store.
We would use a pint for each six kids...Put the cream in a sealable Canning or clean quart size Mayo jar. Let the kids take turns shaking and turning the jar until the butter congeals . Drain the excess liquid (I hesitate to call this buttermilk).
Remove the solid butter from the jar and shape with a spatula to a familiar appearance. Let the kids sample a bit on crackers, and melt a bit to pour over some Micro-wave popcorn and let them sample that too.

Thanks for the recipes... both sound like fun...

Mayor Al-I had forgotten that I did something similar (maybe with the same teacher who had us make rootbeer?). We each had a babyfood jar to shake and graphed our guesses as to how many shakes it would take before we got butter. Don't remember (if I ever knew) what the teacher put in the jars to start it off. Nor do I remember how many shakes, other than A LOT MORE than what we thought it would be!

pdxyyz-Wow, those instructions give great detail, almost like watching someone do it. I'll pass the info on to my friend and let y'all know how it turns out...

Some where in this mess of a library I have a copy of a reprint of the book "Housekeeping in Old Virginia" It was reprinted in Louisville in 1965 and is made up of recipes and housekeeping hints submitted by the wives of various political leaders of the country in the late 1800's. Lots of recipes by Mrs Rutherford B Hayes, and Mrs. George b McCellan etc etc. It has a whole section on butter making.
Unfortunately the libary area is in use as a Christmas Work room for a couple more weeks. Then I will be able to get to the books stuck back in a corner that is currently filled to the ceiling with "stuff" for the 21 grandkids Christmas.

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Originally posted by pdxyyz

If you go to the link http://waltonfeed.com/old/butter.html there are 6 more sets of instructions, one using a bread maker.

I've made butter with out of code heavy cream in my kitchen aide mixer nuttin to it. I'd hate to do it by hand though, now I know why they said a womans work was never done. By the way great link I'll put it to good use. Chow Jim