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Article: BUTTERMILK HAS BECOME LOW-FAT.(LIVING)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- September 12, 2001
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Q: I have a recipe that calls for buttermilk. All I can find in any store is low-fat buttermilk. Will the low-fat buttermilk change my recipe? -Dieting in Denver.
DEAR DIETING: When I think of buttermilk, I think of homemade biscuits, southern fried chicken and creamy ranch dressing - hardly low-fat foods. However, buttermilk is not the culprit in these fattening foods. Most buttermilk in stores today is actually low in fat.
Buttermilk finds it roots back in the days when we all milked our own cows and churned our own butter. Buttermilk was what was left over after the butter had been churned, which is how it got its name.
This buttermilk of yesteryear often had ...