Just Learned Something About Buttermilk

Spring Chicken

My grandmother used to milk her own cow and make her own butter. The milk left over from the butter churning was always referred to as 'buttermilk' and it was used to make biscuits and cornbread.

Then one day I noticed the word 'cultured' on a buttermilk carton. I wondered what it meant so I Googled it a few minutes ago and discovered that the 'buttermilk' I grew up with is not the same as 'cultured' sold in the store. That could explain why I can't make biscuits and cornbread like Grandma used to make.

Check it out...

http://biology.clc.uc.edu/fankhauser/Cheese/BUTTERMILK.HTM

Spring "Milked And Buttered" Chicken
Spring Texas USA

Celtic Wolf

Did I not tell you that in my Cornbread recipe.
:woohoo: You want to find REAL or SWEET buttermilk.

Whole Food and Trader Joe's are the only places I have been able to find it.

Lawn Ranger

I'm gonna sleep better tonight having read that tutorial. BTW, I love buttermilk...cultured, I guess.

LR

YB

Is that the only culture you guys in Texas get Mike.
LOL

Larry

Lawn Ranger

I think you already know that answer. However, we do have Chubby.

Celtic Wolf

Yep that makes for a compelling argument :laugh:

Photo Egg

Please don't try and defend Texas with "Chubby"...
That's like putting out a fire with jet fuel.
Darian

YB

And you may be getting a guy I work with.He just interviewed for a VP job at MD Anderson in Houston and that will make Chubby look good.LOL

Larry

Photo Egg

MD Anderson is a great place to work and my first choice for health care but I hope it never comes into play.
Darian

JalopyBob

So is there enough room back there behind the coop in the back 40 for a nice cow? You know that you want one!
Mmmmooooohh!

Spring Chicken

Not "back 40"... but "back .40" with the emphasis on the ".". Not enough room for a walking, mooing, grass-chewing, patty-making milk-shake on hooves, unless I turned it loose in the cemetery behind the Coop. Me thinks that would not go over well with the occupants or their infrequent visitors.

But I've done the farm animal thing and decided I'm cut out to be lazy.

Spring "Eazy Does It" Chicken