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Posts tagged “buttermilk”

How To Make Buttermilk Biscuits From Scratch
Home Hacks

Everyone has a favorite style of biscuit. The word in itself is rather a blanket for soft pillowy pieces of bread that can be eaten with anything from sausage gravy to soups and stews. One of our f...

Make Cheese at Home: Fresh Buttermilk Cheese
The Cheesemonger

So easy. Pretty tasty. Endless variations. Never made cheese before? That could change-- tonight, if you'd like-- and all you need are three ingredients. And we'd bet you already have them waiting for...

Recipe Review: Salt-Kissed Buttermilk Cake from 101 Cookbooks

Until it showed up in the bulk bins at our local co-op, we had no idea that whole-wheat pastry flour even existed! When we asked what recipes we should try first, one of the recommendations was the sa...

What is Bulgarian Buttermilk?

Yesterday, we went shopping for buttermilk for a cake recipe and found two choices: low-fat or Bulgarian. Bulgarian?...

Word of Mouth: Clabber

Clabber, noun: soured milk Back before there was baking powder to use as a quick leavener in baking, there was clabber. This was something that every farm wife or person with access to fresh milk cou...

Food Science: What is Buttermilk?

In all our recent posts on buttermilk and what to do with it, we realized that there's one topic that we haven't covered. What, exactly, is buttermilk?!...

Good Tip: Freezing Leftover Buttermilk

We've never understood why grocery stores don't sell smaller containers of buttermilk. Does anyone really use a whole half gallon before it expires?! Next time you find yourself with leftover butterm...

Recipe: Chilled Buttermilk Soup for Hot Summer Days

When summer’s heat arrives, it’s hard to to think of preparing, much as less eating, hot food. We want something cool, quick and refreshing. We also want to use the fresh bounty that starts fill...

Reader Feedback: What Can We Do With Buttermilk?

We bought a half-gallon carton of buttermilk a few days ago as we needed half a cup for a Cornmeal Pancakes recipe (which was yummy, by the way.) However, we're now left with almost half a gallon of ...