Buttermilk what can I do with It....

Gingernutmeg

The stuff you get leftover from making butter isn't quite the same as the 'buttermilk' you buy, which is a 'soured' milk made from adding lactic cultures to fresh milk. The liquid left over from butter making is more like a kind of whey, the watery bit of milk left when you remove all of the fat. I'm not sure that it would work in baking the same way as commercial buttermilk as I don't think it's acidic enough to give things a lift, but you could give it a go ...

I do know that pigs love it though lol, and it produces lovely pork if you feed them enough. Apparently that's why you tend to get areas that are famous for both stilton and pork pies, like in Leicestershire, because the pigs were fed on the waste products of the cheesemaking.

belfastgirl23

In Ireland we use it to make soda bread. We can get soda bread flour here but maybe it's not available elsewhere - if you can get it, you just mix with the buttermilk, couldn't be simpler. If not, here is sainsbury's recipe

http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/food/recipe/detail.htm?recipeid=108371&prevUrl=%2fsearch.htm%3fquery%3dsoda%2bbread%26x%3d0%26y%3d0

It's lovely straight out of the oven with butter and cheese or next day toasted. Making myself hungry

It's fat free too which is great (unless you have it with butter of course)

soba

Gingernutmeg wrote:

The stuff you get leftover from making butter isn't quite the same as the 'buttermilk' you buy.

Thanks, I didn't realise that. I've never seen buttermilk for sale anywhere, so I'm going to have a go at soda bread, and maybe scones if I've got any 'buttermilk' left.

Gingham_Ribbon

You could try it in muffins. All my recipes call for buttermilk but we just use ordinary semiskimmed. It might be worth a try.

kittiwoz

Although commercial "buttermilk" isn't the same as the buttermilk you get as a byproduct of making butter most of the recipes that call for buttermilk are traditional recipes that predate the commercial stuff and would originally have been made with the type you have got so I think it would work fine.

squeaky

It works in scones too

soba

Thanks for the ideas everyone.

oldMcDonald

....at least I think it is buttermilk

I was given several cartons of cream yesterday which was a day over its 'use by'. I thought I would make it into butter and chuck it into the freezer in 2oz blobs so I can pop it in cakes when I am cooking (no point in using it as butter as it would go off quickly as I am too lazy to squeeze the excess liquid out!!)

Anyway, my question is, what can I do with the leftover liquid? I assume it is buttermilk as it looks milky and came from the butter!!:D Does anyone have any quick and simple recipes I could bung it into? The simpler the better as I can then put the kids in the kitchen and let them bake - hopefully will keep them quiet for a couple of minutes!!

Thanks

Penelope_Penguin

You can add it to scones

We have an older thread on buttermilk, so I'll add this question to that.

Penny. x

oldMcDonald

Thank you PenPen:D