Article: Buttermilk enhances taste and texture in all kinds of recipes.(Food)(Baking secrets)(Recipe)

Byline: Annie Overboe

Once upon a time, homemade buttermilk enjoyed its place as the beverage of choice on tables across America. Naturally thin and light, this tangy dairy product was the byproduct of churning cream into butter.

From the name, you might assume buttermilk's laden with fat, but nothing could be further from the truth. The churning process agitates liquid cream causing the fat to clump together and form solid butter. With most of the fat congealed into butter, the resulting milk holds very little fat.

Long gone are the days when we milked our own cows or churned butter from fresh cream, so commercial dairies create buttermilk by ...

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