[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Your grandparents probably had slightly soured cream because they kept it for a few days to have enough to make a batch of butter. And cultured cream makes for a very tasty butter although it can give some off flavors in baking.

Everything in the store in the US is mostly sweet cream now days.

Try butter labeled "cultured" and see if that is closer to what you remember.

[gundog]

Thanks. I don’t recall ever seeing cultured butter in the store. I looked on Amazon. Yikes! I thought $10 a lb. was stupid-expensive. And that was some years ago.