Karen AKA Kajikit wrote:
> We bought a big bottle of it today to make pancakes <S>with</S>...
it'/s
> sell-by date is next weekend so I can't see any way to use it all
> before it goes off... that's if it DOES go off

Sell-by doesn't mean that's the date to dispose of... if buttermilk was
properly refrigerated at the market and at home then it can keep for
about a month past sell-by.

>I've never used
> buttermilk before, but I know it's supposed to make great pancakes.
Is
> there anything else you can do with it?

Of course, drink it! Ice cold butter milk is delicious and
refreshing... also great in mashed spuds, and excellent for potato
soup, hot or cold.

Btw, it's called butter milk because it's a by-product of butter
production, it's what's left after the butter is removed... old
fashioned butter milk will contain but a few flakes of butter, but
modern butter milk contains no butter and very little milk fat
(-1/2%).

Sheldon