Buttermilk

[Bullseye 2620]

Hate it like the plague? Damnation! It is the plague.

Now, in pancakes or biscuits, that's another story.


Bullseye

 

[E Z MUNNY]

I guess I grew up in a little different environment than most people. My father was a buttermaker in north-east Iowa. The process of making butter produces many hundreds of gallons of buttermilk and this 'stuff' was eagerly sought by the local pig farmers who mixed it with the grain the pigs ate. The pigs just loved it, especially after it got good and sour. While I do love buttermilk pancakes I still can't drink the stuff because ---.

I don't really care for pigs either except as pork chops cooked up with mushroom soup and potatoes.

 

[pawncop]

My Dad loved it with the cornbread. I could not tolerate it in any way back then.

I will cook with it but will NOT drink it.

 

[handejector]

I drink buttermilk and I love liver, fried with onions and bacon.

But then, I have refined tastes and it's obvious most of you don't.

Well said!

 

[Andy Griffith]

It all depends upon how the buttermilk is made.

If it is acidified- it's nasty stuff and not fit for making bread or anything else. Also, "low fat" buttermilk must have been invented for Martians, as I have no idea what they do with it.
Whole, fermented buttermilk, if I have my term right - preferably from non-pasteurized raw milk is some of the best stuff you can get. I say "get" because it is illegal to sell raw milk in the peach state because our fine agriculture commissioner decided that raw milk is an extreme hazard to the populace and can only be sold for pet consumption. This is a good subject for another thread all together.

Anyway, if you are in an area that you can find pasteurized whole milk that isn't homogenized (cream on top milk), that is the next best stuff to make buttermilk out of- and that's the way we do it- make our own cultured "artificial" buttermilk. That way, there is the little chunks of fat floating in it- delicious with cornbread, onions and pinto beans with chow-chow on the side.

I'd like to have a milking cow or two, but I just couldn't handle the work with everything going on right now.

 

[cmort666]

It belongs in ranch dressing and in pancakes, and no place else.

 

[BarbC]

Exception must be made for Buttermilk Blueberry Muffins.


2 1/2 c. all-purpose flour
2 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 c. sugar
1/4 tsp. salt
1 c. buttermilk
2 eggs, beaten
1 stick butter, melted
1 1/2 c. fresh blueberries
1. Heat oven to 400 degrees. Sift dry ingredients into large bowl. Make a well. Add buttermilk, eggs and butter that has been melted and browned slightly. Mix well, fold in blueberries.
2. Bake in well greased muffin tins, until puffed and golden, about 20 minutes.

 

[jimmyj]

Hi:
When I was growing up the meal posted by Keith44 was a favorite in my area. I could never stand Buttermilk, but would like to know how is made?
Jimmy

 

[westcoast362]

I love it ice cold with salt and pepper. I add salt as I drink it so there is a little crunchy salt with every sip.
I can see why people would not like it without salt.

 

[clipper1]

When I was a kid I couldn't even stand to look at a glass of it, and the sight of my grandmother lustfully licking her lips after drinking it would send me running away! However, I grew up and cultivated a taste for it. 'Real' buttermilk is good stuff. Not too much the storebought version.


gail

 

[Bullseye 2620]

I've been following the voting, and it looks like the pro-buttermilk faction is gaining ground. Guess I better wait for all of the absentee ballots to be counted, eh?


Bullseye

 

[lonejacklarry]

I would rather lick a turtle!

We need a tequila thread! Ice, a little salt......sounds like
it is a similar recipe that actually is drinkable.

 

[G.T. Smith]

Fresh churned ice cold Buttermilk is Grand...Cornbread, pinto beans with a hamhock cook with it
and green onions, cause your taste buds beat your brains out.

What he said,
My mom sold butter that she churned and the buttermilk was grand for sure. She made butter, cottage cheese, sold cream and whole milk.
Not anything better than cold homechurned buttermilk with fresh cornbread crumbled up in it. Then have the beans and cornbread for dessert!
Peace,
gordon
BTW, butter milk is recommended when you have a reaction from anti-biotics like when they upset your stomach.
I love it when medicine tastes good.

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

It's like Liver either you love it or you hate it-no middle ground here.

How did you know that I love liver, too?

 

[jkc]

It's like Liver either you love it or you hate it-no middle ground here.

Expect the liver lawyers to bring action after this calumnious comparison! Liver, if properly prepared, as I am about to do a little later this evening, can be delicious, whereas buttermilk holds no such prospect, apart from its use as an ingredient...

 

[MERV5-5505]

Great for an over-nite chicken soak...I could never get into it as a drink, but had a college buddy from the south that swore by it...nothing wrong with liking what you like.

Looks like the buttermilk h8'ers are gaining ground.

 

[Marksman]

I like the buttermilk with the little flakes of butter in it, the colder the better especially on a hot summer day. Growing up in the '50's I remember my father stopping at a little dairy store for a glass of freshly churned buttermilk. He always brought a quart home in a waxed cone shaped container, that buttermilk had real chunks of butter in it.

 

[Chef]

Funny, the only way I like liver is soaked in buttermilk overnite then battered and fried. LOL, Chef

 

[Faulkner]

I've used buttermilk in various recipe's from time to time, but just to drink it I find it to be the foulest, most nasty thing I've ever put in my mouth.

 

[handejector]

I would rather lick a turtle!

OK.
I'm trying to understand-
we can assume you've tasted buttermilk, so, to make this statement, can we also assume..........