Got Milk?

@Ldyjarhead (10233)
United States
April 18, 2008 6:30am CST
Actually, I'm talking about buttermilk ... I have a recipe I'm going to try today that calls for buttermilk. Problem is, I never use buttermilk for anything and if I buy some today to make this one recipe, the rest will probably go to waste. Now anyone that knows me will know that I HATE wasting things, so my dilemna is: What else can I do with buttermilk? I know you can make your own buttermilk by adding lemon or vinegar or something (I'd have to look it up), but I'm thinking this recipe would probably best with the 'real deal'. Help me out folks!
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@lilybug (21107)
• United States
18 Apr 08
Here is one that I like to make. It uses up a cup of the buttermilk. Impossible Buttermilk pie Ingredients: 1 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup Bisquick mix 1 cup buttermilk 1 stick butter (melted) 1 teaspoon vanilla 3 eggs Directions: Mix ingredients together: Beat until smooth; pour into pie plate. Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes. This pie makes its own crust. I would also suggest soaking some chicken in some buttermilk before you bread it and bake it or fry it.
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@lilybug (21107)
• United States
19 Apr 08
No, it is a desert. It is really pie. It is kind of like a cooked cutard with a crust on top. While it cooks the bisquick forms a crust on the top of the pie. I thought it would b wierd the first time I had it too, but it is not. You don't even taste the buttermilk.
@Ldyjarhead (10233)
• United States
19 Apr 08
This sounds interesting, lilybug. So is it more of a side-dish kinda thing or what? I'm having trouble thinking what it might taste like.
• United States
19 Apr 08
I would imagine it to be like a sweet buttery cake in a pie plate. It seems simple enough to try. I think I should give it a go. My daughter might like a simple recipe like that.
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@dandj929 (423)
• United States
18 Apr 08
I would opt for the "real deal" too! What are you making with the buttermilk? My family loves when I make buttermilk biscuits (but the recipe does call for a lot of butter, but I never tell them that!). My mother would sometimes use buttermilk to kind of marinate chicken before she made oven-fried chicken. She would cover the chicken with buttermilk then cover it with plastic wrap and place in the fridge overnight. Next day she would just take them out of the fridge and coat the buttermilk soaked chicken with flour, salt, and pepper. Then fry them up on the stove in some oil (about 3 minutes per side) then place in the oven for a half and hour. Always delicious. Good luck with your recipe!
@Ldyjarhead (10233)
• United States
18 Apr 08
Its a recipe for coleslaw dressing that's supposed to be just like KFC. My husband and I are going to his brother's house to visit with him and his wife and I'm making macaroni salad with shrimp and the cole slaw. That chicken sounds great! I have never really done fried chicken, I've never liked cooking with a pan of hot oil. I guess I need to not be a chicken and just do it!
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@Ohara_1983 (4117)
• Kuwait
19 Apr 08
wow! i think i have no any idea for butter milk, just i know some of it to use for like brown butter milk biscuit. This how you will do it, Ingredients: · 2 cups all-purpose flour 2 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp baking soda 1 tsp granulated sugar 1/2 tsp salt 4 fl oz butter, chilled, diced 7 fl oz buttermilk Preheat oven to 350ºF(175ºC). Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, sugar, and salt in the bowl of a food processor using the plastic blade. Pulse until well-blended. Add the butter and pulse until mixture resembles coarse meal, about 5 seconds. Transfer mixture to a bowl and add the buttermilk. 3 Stir with a fork until it forms a dough. Roll out dough to about 1 inch thick and cut out biscuits with round 2 inch diameter cutter. Bake until golden-brown, about 25 minutes hope it will help.,have a happy cooking
• Kuwait
19 Apr 08
it will be more yumy if you will make the biscuit . & share if to me real good.
@Ldyjarhead (10233)
• United States
19 Apr 08
Mmmm, sounds good. I just did the impossible pie and put it into the oven, but I've still got some buttermilk left. I think pancakes or biscuits will be next on the list!
@Modestah (11179)
• United States
18 Apr 08
I have this same dilemma, I sent hubby out to purchase a quart of buttermilk for a recipe that only required a small amount. I made some pancakes with it after wards - but still have a significant amount left in the carton. I looked at it the other day and it has turned to a sour cream consistency. I wonder if it is any good... lol, I mean - I wonder if it would be like sour cream and not spoiled milk, it does not smell funky. goodnews is that the buttermilk was relatively inexpensive.
@Modestah (11179)
• United States
19 Apr 08
before homogenization and when people used raw milk the milk kept a lot longer and even did not have to be refrigerated. When the milk soured it was not spoiled - it was just "ripe" and was used in recipes such as cake and pastries. the opposing to sweet milk was sour milk and the opposing to fresh was spoiled I guess/
@Ldyjarhead (10233)
• United States
19 Apr 08
I have no idea if it would still be good or not. I mean, its sour already, right? I wouldn't use milk that had soured, but maybe buttermilk is different, I don't know. (and I don't plan to find out!).
@carmelanirel (20942)
• United States
18 Apr 08
ugh, can you believe my dad use to drink buttermilk straight? He loved it, I hated it.. Since I rarely use buttermilk, if I come across a recipe, I just substitute by making my own..
• United States
19 Apr 08
Oh tell me about it..And then he got me to try it..Double YUCK!!
• United States
19 Apr 08
Well, some people do like it, I don't know why, but I guess they like that bitter taste..Maybe something you would have to get use to, but I am in no hurry to try it again..
@Ldyjarhead (10233)
• United States
19 Apr 08
You know I mentioned to my husband yesterday about finding more things to make so I don't waste it, and he just looked at me, tilted his head back and put his hand up like he was drinking. I said you'll drink it like that? and he said YUM YUM ... I dunno ...
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• United States
18 Apr 08
I am thinking you can buy buttermilk in a small container. Yes, you can make it by adding lemon juice- I forget the ratio, but I have done it many times and never had a problem.
@Ldyjarhead (10233)
• United States
19 Apr 08
I was only able to find a quart, but it wasn't all that expensive and I'm sure with everyone's help here it won't go to waste. Tom said it won't. (ICK)
• United States
19 Apr 08
Sorry, it might be a substitute for sour cream as well, but it IS also a substitute for buttermilk. To use vinegar: http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/9/Buttermilk_Substitute45817.shtml To use lemon juice: http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/4/Buttermilk_Substitute5882.shtml
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
21 Apr 08
well you can make different cakes and donuts using buttermilk, and I hate the taste of buttermilk but I do like buttermilk donuts, it doesn't taste sour at all.Oh there are buttermilk biscuits and buttermilk pancakes too,
@Ldyjarhead (10233)
• United States
21 Apr 08
Several have said biscuits and pancakes, so maybe I'll make one of those tomorrow. I made the impossible buttermilk pie last night and it was great!
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
19 Apr 08
I have made buttermilk pancakes, also you can use it for making biscuits. If you make your own buttermilk or sour milk, I think the proportion is a tablespoon of vinegar or lemon to a cup of milk. There is a recipe on the cooks site for buttermilk cake http://www.cooksrecipes.com/cake/buttermilk_pound_cake_recipe.html and some on the about site http://homecooking.about.com/library/archive/blmisc46.htm When I make waffles, I use soured milk instead of regular milk, so I could use buttermilk, but we do not get that much of it. I have bought buttermilk powder but not that often.
@Ldyjarhead (10233)
• United States
19 Apr 08
For the coleslaw I made, I don't think making my own out of vinegar/lemon and milk would have worked as well. I bought the real thing and with everything I've got here don't think it will go to waste. My husband just drank a bit of it and I also just put the 'impossible buttermilk pie' that everyone talked about into the oven.
@eden32 (3973)
• United States
20 Apr 08
There's so many responses already, I wonder if anyone else has suggested it? I just don't want to go through all of them to check I forget the brand name but there is a powder buttermilk you should be able to find in the baking aisle of your grocery store. It has a shelf life of a couple years, so if you make this dish every once in awhile it may be the best way to go.
@Ldyjarhead (10233)
• United States
20 Apr 08
Yes, I thought of that first too, but don't think it would be cost effective since I didn't know if I would ever make this again and have need for it. See above!
@worldwise1 (14885)
• United States
19 Apr 08
I remember some in my family from years ago, Ldyjarhead, who praised the goodness of buttermilk, and although I never grew to actually love it, I did learn to tolerate it. My uncle could drink huge glasses of it. As for recipes I know that it is excellent in cornbread, ranch salad dressing, and some of my ancestors used to make a delicious buttermilk pudding-which is like a simple cake made from scratch. It turns out very fluffy and light. Hope this gives you some ideas.
@Ldyjarhead (10233)
• United States
19 Apr 08
Thanks, WW. I've got a bit to work with now and I don't think it'll end up being poured down the drain!
• United States
21 Apr 08
I use buttermilk for many things, not only can you make biscuits with it, you can use it in corn bread, or corn muffins, marinate livers, Oh chicken livers are heavenly in it, use in mashed potatoes, macaronni and cheese. I absolutely love to take hot corn bread and put in a bowl with buttermilk, eat like cereal. Now you've made me hungry, I will have to make a cake and have some.
@Ldyjarhead (10233)
• United States
21 Apr 08
I think I'll make pancakes this morning, or maybe biscuits. Maybe both!
@nova1945 (1612)
• United States
18 Apr 08
Well, I don't know what receipe you are making, but I can tell you that buttermilk is the best one to use in homemade bread and biscuits. I never use the stuff either, but will use it for that.
@Ldyjarhead (10233)
• United States
19 Apr 08
Mmm, biscuits sound good. I may have to put that on my list to do one morning this week.
• United States
22 Apr 08
I use buttermilk in my buscuits and cornbread all the time, I just substitute it for regular milk, its great.
@ava152007 (641)
• India
22 Apr 08
Hi Dont waste buttermilk, its really good for health. If you have curd then its easy to prepare buttermilk. first you have to deside how much buttermilk you want then take some curd add a cup of water and then blend it for 2mins. your buttermulk is ready!!!!!!! Still you have more buttermilk, ok try this add some salt, lemon,ginger, small piece of green chilli shake well then taste it. Its too good for summer. you can store this in fridge.
@Ldyjarhead (10233)
• United States
22 Apr 08
We don't have curds here, so that's out. I didn't waste any of the buttermilk I bought, though. I made coleslaw dressing with it the first night and I made homemade buttermilk pancakes yesterday. Mmmm mmm !
@DeborahC (41)
• United States
20 Apr 08
I have cooked with both, real buttermilk, and the tablespoon of vinegar added to one cup of milk, and I wasn't able to tell the difference between them.
@Ldyjarhead (10233)
• United States
20 Apr 08
Deborah, I think for this one it wouldn't have given quite the taste/thickness I needed. It was for coleslaw that was supposed to be like the KFC recipe, and it was great!
@icyorchid (2564)
• United States
19 Apr 08
You can make some Pralines with it. Yummy Or perhaps you can see if a neighbor would like what you don't use. Good Luck
@Ldyjarhead (10233)
• United States
19 Apr 08
I don't have any pecans, so I guess pralines are out. Good thought about sharing with a neighbor, though.
@GardenGerty (160491)
• United States
19 Apr 08
Another solution is that there is a powdered buttermilk mix, so that you make up just what you need. I find it in the baking row, or where the powdered milk is at Wal Mart. It has instructions on the cannister, and it keeps well in the fridge. It makes the "real deal". For the cole slaw I would probably have put a tablespoon of apple juice or apple cider vinegar in a cup and added milk to the one cup level.
@Ldyjarhead (10233)
• United States
19 Apr 08
I debated once before about buying the powdered form in the canister, but I honestly don't have need for it and it would probably sit there for a couple of years! I ended up buying a quarter, the smallest they had, and I'm sure I can use up the difference with biscuits and pancakes and such.
@bdugas (3578)
• United States
19 Apr 08
You can freeze the rest, while it is no longer the same consistancy for drinking, it is still great when thawed out for mixing into recipes. Same great taste and flavor, so maybe you could freeze what is left and use it again in the recipe that you are making this time.
@Ldyjarhead (10233)
• United States
19 Apr 08
Good point, thanks. From the number of responses I have here already, I don't think it's going to be a problem after all.
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
19 Apr 08
Actually I used to have the same dilemma as sometimes a recipe would call for some buttermilk but then it was like, huh? What do I do with the rest of it. I actually developed a taste for drinking it after awhile..really doesn't taste all that bad..LOL...but how about making also, buttermilk pancakes from scratch? But here's a good website with links to quite a lot of recipes that call for buttermilk http://homecooking.about.com/library/archive/blmisc46.htm Even a simple thing as adding a bit of buttermilk to mashed potatoes--in fact looking at all those recipes made me hungry again! LOL
@Ldyjarhead (10233)
• United States
19 Apr 08
You know, after smelling the sweet buttermilk when making the coleslaw, I decided to add a few drops to the macaroni salad I was making too. Worked for me!
@whiteheron (4222)
• United States
19 Apr 08
You might want to also make your own Ranch dressing for a veggie dip or for a salad dressing... Sounds yummy to me. :)
@Ldyjarhead (10233)
• United States
19 Apr 08
I don't have much on hand for a salad, but I do use a little milk when making things with 'cream of whatever' soup. Maybe a bit of buttermilk would add a nice change to that?
@gloamglozer (1289)
• Australia
19 Apr 08
lol... nice title... attention grabbing
@Ldyjarhead (10233)
• United States
19 Apr 08
I try!