- Hey, guys.
Today, I'm gonna show you how to make buttermilk
at home, three separate ways.
Three separate ways to make it.
So, just added some milk to a measuring cup.
And now I'm going to go ahead
and just add in some lemon.
So just big shout out to my friend Taylin
for giving me a bunch of lemons from his lemon tree.
So just gonna go ahead and add in the lemon
and just mix that together. (glass clinking)
Now, the thing that's great about this is
if you just are gonna use buttermilk for like pancakes
or waffles or whatever, you know, just for a recipe,
you don't wanna buy a full carton,
this is just a really easy hack to have buttermilk
for whatever that recipe is.
(glass clinking)
Just go ahead and stir in that lemon juice or white vinegar.
Now, you can use any vinegar,
but white vinegar is the most neutral.
So lemon juice or vinegar.
Just add it to the milk and go ahead and stir that in.
Now I've read on some blogs that,
hey you have to let the vinegar
or lemon juice stand in the milk for a bit,
like let it stand for 10 minutes before using.
Not true. Just mix it in, thoroughly combine it.
Boom, it's ready to cook with.
One thing to note, the milk is not gonna get thick
like regular buttermilk.
This is not buttermilk,
if you like to drink buttermilk, like my crazy mom.
If you like to drink buttermilk, this is not for drinking.
This is for using in a recipe.
So it's not gonna get thick like buttermilk,
and the lemon and the vinegar might actually cause the milk
to curd a little bit, which is totally fine.
But you might get some of those curds in the final product.
It's just the fat in the milk, reacting to the acid.
Okay, method two,
so once again, take your milk,
(milk splashes)
and we're gonna add in some cream of tartar.
Now, there's a couple of different ways you can do this.
The cream of tartar, once again,
provides that same sort of thing
as the vinegar and the lemon juice.
But if you add it directly to milk,
it might get a little clumpy.
It might not fully mix in.
So you can do two things to, just depending on the recipe.
One, you can take the cream of tartar
and add just a little bit of milk to kind of create a paste
and then whisk that into the milk.
Or you can add the cream of tartar, depending on the recipe,
to the dry ingredients of the recipe,
and then add the milk to the wet ingredients.
And just based on science, it'll all still kinda work out.
So you can mix it in before or not,
depending on what recipe that you're creating,
but just another easy way to create buttermilk
when you don't have it.
Okay, so that's the method two.
I'm gonna show you method three right after this.
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The thing that's great about buttermilk
is that it adds this airiness to baked goods, right?
The acidity in buttermilk
reacts with baking soda or baking powder,
causing it to fizz,
which brings that light fluffiness to baked goods,
which makes them so delicious.
But if you don't have it on hand,
the thing that's great
about these three methods that I'm showing you
is that they just take a few minutes.
So you don't need to go to the store and buy a full carton,
if you don't use buttermilk regularly,
you can just use these ingredients.
Or if you happen to buy buttermilk all the time
and just happen to be out,
these are really, really great ways to get up and running
without having buttermilk in the house.
One more thing before I get into method three.
So the things I showed you before,
I used milk with lemon juice or vinegar,
and then I used milk with cream of tartar, right?
So you can actually do both of those versions
without a dairy milk.
So if you want, if you're vegan,
you can use an alt milk, like soy milk, rice milk, whatever.
It doesn't have to be a dairy-based product.
You just need that liquid and that acidity.
Okay, so version three.
So you can actually just take yogurt
or sour cream, both will work,
just take yogurt or sour cream (spoon scraping)
and mix them in with just a little bit of milk.
You don't have to thin them out.
It depends on the recipe, kind of coming back
to that cream of tartar.
So if you need a more liquidy buttermilk
for the recipe that you're making,
then, yeah, thin it out with just a little bit of milk.
Or if you don't, you can just use straight up yogurt
or sour cream.
And those are just the three simple ways
that you can actually create buttermilk,
a buttermilk substitute at home, easy breezy.
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See you guys next time.
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