Fen Farm Dairy - Bungay Raw Butter
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Fen Farm Dairy Bungay Raw Butter | The UK's Only Raw Cultured Farmhouse Butter
Made by Jonny Crickmore at Fen Farm Dairy in Suffolk, Bungay Raw Butter is the UK's only raw farmhouse butter produced using a lactic culture — and one of the most extraordinary butters in the world. Made by hand in the traditional way: the cream is soured using a cocktail of lactic bacteria, then churned and hand-paddled using traditional wooden scotch butter hands. The milk comes warm from the morning milking of Jonny's grass-fed Montbéliarde cows — an ancient breed, handpicked from small farms in the Jura region of France.
The result is nutty, complex and richly flavoured — an interpretation of the original Suffolk butter that became world-famous over 300 years ago. Supplied as a 200g bar or wheel depending on availability.
Why You'll Love It
🧈 The UK's Only Raw Farmhouse Butter – Made using traditional lactic fermentation — a method largely lost for centuries and revived at Fen Farm.
🌿 Handmade from Grass-Fed Montbéliarde Milk – Rich, high-protein milk from an ancient French breed, producing extraordinary depth of flavour.
🐄 From Fen Farm Dairy, Suffolk – The home of Baron Bigod and one of Britain's most celebrated artisan dairy farms.
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Order before 11am Tuesday to Friday for next-day delivery across the UK. 200g. Shipped in insulated packaging with ice packs.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is raw butter?
Raw butter is made from unpasteurised cream — the milk goes straight from the cow into the making room without being heat-treated. This preserves the natural enzymes, beneficial bacteria and complex flavour compounds that pasteurisation destroys. The result is a butter with far more depth, nuance and character than standard commercial butter. Bungay Raw Butter also uses a lactic culture — souring the cream before churning — which adds an additional layer of complexity and a distinctive nutty tang.
What does Bungay Raw Butter taste like?
Nutty, complex and richly flavoured with a natural tang from the lactic culture. The Montbéliarde milk gives it a richness and depth that commercial butters simply can't match. Sunshine yellow in colour from the grass-fed milk. Outstanding on good bread, melted over steaks, or used in baking where the flavour carries through beautifully.
What is the format — bar or wheel?
Depending on how it's delivered to us, the butter may arrive as a gold bar or a gold wheel. Both are 200g, identical in quality and provenance — just a different shape. The format is determined by the production batch.
Who makes it?
Jonny Crickmore at Fen Farm Dairy in Bungay, Suffolk — also the home of Baron Bigod, England's only farmhouse Brie-style cheese. Jonny is a raw milk pioneer and one of Britain's most celebrated artisan dairy farmers. The butter is made using milk warm from the morning milking, just metres from where the cows are milked.
Do you offer next-day delivery?
Yes — order before 11am Tuesday to Friday for next-day delivery across the UK mainland. Free delivery on orders over £95, otherwise £6.50.
Our team will get your order ready 24 hours before the date requested at checkout. Everything will be cut fresh, packaged with the utmost care by our team and then boxed with ice packs in our sustainable packaging, ready to be delivered Next Day.
Your order will be sent via DPD to the postal address given, on the day of delivery DPD will send you a one hour timeslot for when their driver will drop off to your location. The driver will leave safe if you are not in so the box can be left outside until you arrive back home.
Our cool boxes maintain the right ambient temperature for up to 48 hours so your box will always arrive fresh and chilled.
