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You are in the bush... How to make sheabutter ?
1 Sorting and picking the sheanuts...
2 Wash the sheanuts and leave to dry...
3 Pound roughly sheanuts into a mortar...
4 .... until crushed into small pieces but not in powder
5 Roast the sheanuts over fire until dark chocolate colour shiny and oily
6 Pound again into mortar...
7 ... to be like chocolate darl sludge
8 Put the dark sludge on a stone...
9 Grind on stone until to have a smooth paste
10 Gradually add cold water, mix well and leave to cool; then add small quantities of hot water and mix well.
11 The mixtures lightens as the butter begins to appear. Add cold water in greater quantities. The butter coagulate and rises the surface
12 Remove the gray mass out of the water, and heat over a fire. Skim off the white foam. The butter will be left at the bottom.

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Last updated : January, 2001