Patent ID: 8790733

Claim:
A method for producing a water-in-oil butter product comprising: separating a milkfat mixture into a milkfat fraction and an aqueous fraction, wherein the milkfat mixture is a water-in-oil emulsion of inverted concentrated cream and is at least about 80 percent by weight milkfat; heating the milkfat fraction to form a liquid; combining the liquid milkfat fraction and the aqueous fraction from the separated milkfat mixture to form a butter mixture such that the butter mixture includes the same milkfat and aqueous fractions as the concentrated cream and is at least about 80 percent by weight milkfat, wherein the butter mixture is at least above 80° F.; and processing the butter mixture by using at least two cooling steps, each cooling step followed by mixing, and a final high shear mixing step to generate a fine, homogenous crystal structure in the butter mixture to form the water-in-oil butter product.