Can you make HM Buttermilk?

Str4berr3

Hiya to all you peeps!
I wanna do some baking tonight but need one vital ingedient: Buttermilk.
Anybody know if it is possible to make HM Buttermilk?
As i live in central London i dont really fancied trotting around in every little tesco metro's and sainsbury's local to find one.
Forgot to oder it online at tesco.

mink35

Apparently it was originally a by-product of butter making and now made by adding culture to skimmed milk (according to Delia!).

You would need to know what culture is used to make your own I think - unless ya fancy making butter at the same time!


Edit: there's a recipe here using lemon juice or.... vinegar!!

KTFrugal

Unless you like to drink buttermilk straight out the glass, you can sub a yoghurt/milk mix with no ill effect to your recipes. I use 2-3 tbsps to the half pint, but you can use as much yoghurt as needs using up if you like.

In a pinch, which is where I am most of the time, you can also put vinegar into milk for the same acid content...reckon on 1 tbsp to half a pint of milk and leave it to curdle for 30 mins or so.

Str4berr3

KTFrugal: Do you know if it ok to use Malt Vinegar as that is all i got here?

Lulubells

Hi,

I am always looking up recipes on the internet, and I quite often see recipes that need buttermilk - which I don't usually have ! Anyway on my searches I found this alternative to buttermilk if you don't have any to hand - so I thought I would share this as others my find it useful too.

Substitutions: 1 tbsp vinegar or lemon juice + low-fat or fat-free milk to make 1 cup & let stand for 10 minutes = 1 cup low fat or fat-free buttermilk

Cheers

Lulubells

Rikki

I have a recipe that uses soured milk/cream and the instructions say add lemon juice to the cream/milk. It thickens it.

Mumofthreeboys_2

Why don't you try making your own butter? The milky liquid left over is buttermilk, you can freeze it and use it when you're ready....

r.mac_2

i have also successfully used a mix of 1/2 natural yog and 1/2 milk in place of buttermilk

purplemoon

r.mac wrote:

i have also successfully used a mix of 1/2 natural yog and 1/2 milk in place of buttermilk

I do this. Works great in soda bread.

kittiwoz

Buttermilk is acid so it reacts with bicarbonate of soda to create bubbles of carbon dioxide which cause your soda bead (or cake or buttermilk pancakes etc) to rise. Soured milk/cream and yoghurt are similarly acid and so have the same effect.

stressedoutmumof1

I put a tbsp of vinegar into normal milk to make my buttermilk