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Article: Buttermilk sounds more fattening than it is
- Article from:
- The Topeka Capital-Journal
- Article date:
- September 26, 2001
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QUESTION: 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
ANSWER: 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. All buttermilk in stores today is actually low in fat.
Buttermilk finds its 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 leftover butter ...