Buttermilk

- Contains no butter
- Thicker than milk
- Lower fat than whole milk
- Tastes like yogurt
- Spoiled buttermilk: Separated and chunky
- "Artificial buttermilk" now called "cultured buttermilk"

Buttermilk is fermented cow's milk with a distinctly sour taste.
Types of Buttermilk
1. Traditional buttermilk: Leftover liquid after churning butter
2. Cultured buttermilk: Lactic acid bacteria added
3. Acidified buttermilk: Food-grade acid added
Buttermilk Substitutes

Short on buttermilk? Stir one tablespoon of lemon juice or vinegar or 1.75 tablespoons of cream of tartar into whole milk, and it will make an effective substitute. Another possible substitute for a cup of buttermilk is a mix of 3/4 cup of yogurt and 1/4 cup of milk.
How Buttermilk Is Made

Buttermilk was once the leftover liquid from butter-making. It is quite different from modern buttermilk. Now buttermilk is generally produced by adding a bacterial culture to milk, similar to how yogurt or sour cream are made. The bacteria turn the lactose in the milk into lactic acid. If you add one part fresh buttermilk to four parts regular milk and leave the milk in a warm area, the regular milk should become buttermilk in a day or two.

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Buttermilk Questions

What's in chilled spiced Buttermilk? I've never heard of it. 1 Answer

Mattha - Spiced buttermilk is a cool and savory drink, an end product of making butter. In the days when people kept cows or buffaloes in thei... read more

The only thing stopping me from trying the buttermilk pancake recipe now is a lack of baking powder. Why does it need soda and powder??? 1 Answer

Here's a recipe for buttermilk pancakes that doesn't need baking powder - just soda: 2 cups all-purpose flour, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 tsp baking soda,½ tsp salt,... read more

How do you substitute buttermilk? 2 Answers

1 cup buttermilk= 1 cup milk with 1 Tablespoon Lemon juice or vinegar let stand for 5 minutes; or you can use 1 cup of Plain yogurt read more

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