~patches~ wrote:
> Pandora wrote:
>
>> Is buttermilk a sort of Yogurt? If I have not buttermilk how can
>> replace it?
>> Cheers
>> Pandora
>>
>
> Pandora, do you have heavy cream, the kind you make whipped cream from?
> If so, pour the heavy whipped cream into a blender or food processor
> and whiz away. The cream will separate into butter and buttermilk. Pour
> off the buttermilk and reserve for whatever you need. Pat butter
> several times to remove any buttermilk left. Add salt to the butter if
> desired. Now you have fresh butter as well as buttermilk. I use this
> method when I want to make herbed butters or cranberry butter. HTH


Hi, Pandora, What is the recipe? In the USA, today's Buttermilk is
regular milk to which certain cultures have been added, in order to
sour the milk. If your dairies sell it, it would be called Sour Milk,
not Butter Milk.

You can make milk sour by adding a few drops of fresh lemon juice or
vinegar to it, but you would have to know for what the soured milk
will be used, in case real butter milk, as described in the above
post, is required.