Buttermilk Tips

Save some buttermilk to make more buttermilk. You can use buttermilk as a starter to make more. You can make it about 15 times this way. Then buy more buttermilk at the store. Save some of it to make buttermilk next time.

Everyone needs milk and cheese.

Your family needs this many servings every day.
Children 1 to 3 years old 4 to 8 years old Young people 9 to 18 years old Adults over 19 years old Mothers-to-be Nursing mothers A serving is 1 cup milk or buttermilk 1 cup yogurt 113 ounces cheddar cheese 2 slices processed cheese 112 cups ice cream 2 cups cottage cheese Servings 2 to 3 3 4 3 4 4 or more

Milk

Buttermilk is good for you. Buttermilk has calcium. Calcium helps build strong bones and teeth. Buttermilk has protein, too. Protein helps you grow and helps repair your body. Buttermilk tastes good. Use it for drinking and cooking. Buttermilk is cheaper when you make it.

Evelyn Crayton, Extension Foods and Nutrition Specialist, Professor, Nutrition and Food Science, Auburn University. Originally prepared by Fariss Prickett, former 4-H SpecialistFoods and Nutrition. For more information, call your county Extension ofce. Look in your telephone directory under your countys name to nd the number. Issued in furtherance of Cooperative Extension work, Acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, by the Alabama Cooperative Extension System (Alabama A&M University and Auburn University) 2.5M06, Revised May 2003, HE-31
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Make Your Own Buttermilk

3 quarts water 513 cups instant nonfat dry milk

2 cups buttermilk

for 1 gallon of buttermilk

3 cups water 113 cups instant nonfat dry milk

for 1 quart of buttermilk

What You Use:

2 cup buttermilk

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How to Make Buttermilk

This recipe makes 1 quart of buttermilk. This recipe makes 1 gallon of buttermilk.

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Put buttermilk in a big, clean jar.

Buttermilk that you bought or made before.

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Buttermilk 2 cups Put buttermilk in a large boiler.

2 cup

water 3 cups

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1 3 cups
1

water 3 quarts Add water and dry milk to buttermilk. Stir it real good.

Instant nonfat dry milk

Add water and dry milk to buttermilk.

Instant nonfat dry milk

513 cups

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Put lid on jar. Shake hard. Cover the jar. Use a lid or clean cloth. Let milk stand in a warm room. Let it clabber.

Stir well.

Pour milk in clean jars.

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Keep buttermilk in the refrigerator. Keep it covered. It tastes better when it is cold.

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This takes about 10 hours in the winter. It takes about 5 hours in the summer.

Cover the jars. Use a lid or clean cloth. Let milk stand in a warm room. Let it clabber. This takes about 10 hours in the winter. It takes about 5 hours in the summer.

Keep buttermilk it the refrigerator. Keep it covered. It tastes better when it is cold.

Save 12 cup of buttermilk. Use it to make more buttermilk. This will make 1 quart.

Save 2 cups of buttermilk. Use it to make more buttermilk. This will make 1 gallon.