Buttermilk what can I do with It....

hilstep2000

We use it to make american style pancakes with blueberries YUM!

jackk_2

belfastgirl23 wrote: »

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)

Ive never seen soda bread flour in the shops here, but use wholemeal very successfully. Soda bread is yummy .

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Nicki

jackk wrote: »

Ive never seen soda bread flour in the shops here, but use wholemeal very successfully. Soda bread is yummy .

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Different kind of bread! Irish soda bread (at least the part of Ireland I come from) is made with plain flour plus baking soda and salt (or soda bread flour which is self raising flour with baking soda added). Wheaten bread (which is sometimes described in English supermarkets as Irish soda bread though I've never heard it called that in my part of Ireland) is made with wholemeal flour.

The recipe I have for soda bread is 1lb plain flour (not bread flour), 1 tsp bicarb of soda and 1 tsp salt. Mix to soft dough with half to three quarters pint of buttermilk, shape into farls and bake in hot oven for 30-35 mins.

ceridwen

Buttermilk.....oooooh! oooh! ooh! There is a gorgeous Scandinavian pudding I used to make years and years ago...and have forgotten the recipe for...as I just couldnt find buttermik anywhere in Britain...and still cant. It was very quick and easy, as I recall.

Try googling for Scandinavian puddings with buttermilk and see what comes up...cor...it was luverly! and could be served with something like berry-type fruit. As I recall - it was made with two types of milk - buttermilk and some other type.

Nicki

ceridwen wrote: »

Buttermilk.....oooooh! oooh! ooh! There is a gorgeous Scandinavian pudding I used to make years and years ago...and have forgotten the recipe for...as I just couldnt find buttermik anywhere in Britain...and still cant. It was very quick and easy, as I recall.

Try googling for Scandinavian puddings with buttermilk and see what comes up...cor...it was luverly! and could be served with something like berry-type fruit. As I recall - it was made with two types of milk - buttermilk and some other type.

I have read that if you mix 1 tbsp of vinegar into a pint of milk and let it stand for 10 mins that it can be used in place of buttermilk. I've never tried it though.

I hadn't seen buttermilk in the supermarkets until a few weeks ago but my local Sainsburys and Tesco both now carry it. Its in the cream section and in the same kind of carton as cream. Maybe worth another look if you haven't tried to find it recently?

ceridwen

The nearest recipe I can find on the Net to what I recall making as a Scandinavian pudding is:

http://www.world-recipes.info

click on Africa

click on buttermilk pudding

(bit convoluted - as the link I tried to put in didnt work for some reason).

jackk_2

Nicki wrote: »

Different kind of bread! Irish soda bread (at least the part of Ireland I come from) is made with plain flour plus baking soda and salt (or soda bread flour which is self raising flour with baking soda added). Wheaten bread (which is sometimes described in English supermarkets as Irish soda bread though I've never heard it called that in my part of Ireland) is made with wholemeal flour.

The recipe I have for soda bread is 1lb plain flour (not bread flour), 1 tsp bicarb of soda and 1 tsp salt. Mix to soft dough with half to three quarters pint of buttermilk, shape into farls and bake in hot oven for 30-35 mins.

Oh thanks, i'll give your recipe a bash, authentic soda bread :j .

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orangemoose88

It was OH's birthday yesterday so I bought some buttermilk to make his cake with, but now I have about 200ml left and no idea what to do with it! Any suggestions? Does it freeze?

Thanks

Chris25

scones - this recipe uses about 185ml http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/buttermilkscones_71913.shtml

It goes a bit watery after freezing & I think only keeps for about 3 months.

Pink.

Hi kamcauliffe,

Yes it does freeze well. There's an earlier thread with lots of suggestions for using up buttermilk that should help so I'll add your post to it to keep the ideas together.

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