Margaret Suran wrote:
>
>
> ~patches~ wrote:
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>> Pandora wrote:
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>>> Is buttermilk a sort of Yogurt? If I have not buttermilk how can
>>> replace it?
>>> Cheers
>>> Pandora
>>>
>>

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> 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.


Yogurt is just regular milk with certain cultures added too. So, yes,
Pandora, yogurt can be used to replace buttermilk in 'many' recipes. In
countries like India where butter is churned from cultured cream(not
sweet cream), the resulting buttermilk almost tastes like diluted
yogurt. In summers, this buttermilk, either sweetened or salted/spiced
and chilled, is what is sold as lassi/chaas in the streets.

Let us know the dishes where you would like to replace the buttermilk
and we can help you with the substitution. Like Margaret said, you can
sour milk with lemon juice/vinegar or just replace the buttermilk with
yogurt.

- Kamala.