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Article: The Main Ingredient: Butter me up; A little buttermilk will lead to a lot of taste in many recipes
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
- Article date:
- September 22, 2002
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Ever wonder why your biscuits crumble like dirt clods? Why your
pancakes are about as fluffy as a wet bandanna?
Buttermilk is the magic elixir you seek.
Once upon a time, every cook knew the power of buttermilk. That's
because the cook in the house used to make her own butter. She
gathered a churn full of milk - it took a while, if she only had one
cow - and let it sit until the cream rose to the top. After she
churned the butter, she had quite a bit of "buttermilk" left over. It
was pleasantly sour from sitting around so long, with little flecks
of leftover butter to make it rich.
She didn't waste this liquid. Oh, no. She and others in the house ...