Using Soured Skim Milk to Replace Buttermilk?

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My dinner tonight calls for 1 c of buttermilk (in a cornbread crust) but I have no buttermilk on hand. Does the lemon juice trick work with skim milk?
 
You'd better refresh my memory, if you don't mind! I've looked in a couple of my cook books and they both give different rations.
 
That's one of the ones I have. The other said 1 1/2 Tbsp for every cup. I think I'll stick with yours. You let it sit for a few minutes then, too, right?
 
I've been known to use 2 TBS per cup of lime juice. It's not going to hurt anything to use more - and it works pretty fast too! :chef:
 
Isnt buttermilk from the store fat free?

I never use it but know someone who (bizarrely) drinks the stuff because she thinks it tastes better than skim milk.
 
kitchenelf said:
I've been known to use 2 TBS per cup of lime juice. It's not going to hurt anything to use more - and it works pretty fast too! :chef:

Hey Elfie, isn't lime juice pretty sour already? *heeheehee*
 
Why no Alix, the limes we grow HERE in North Carolina are so sweet you wouldn't believe it!!!!! It's a real sugar rush! :-p

Jenny - buttermilk is fat free - I've never seen it any other way. I just don't understand drinking it at all = it is some nasty stuff. My Dad always broke up cornbread and put buttermilk over it in a bowl. Around here if you are sitting at the lunch counter of this one place, and other places too - if you order milk they will ask if you mean "sweet" milk as so many people drink buttermilk.

It's good for cooking/recipes but I have never developed a taste for it just plain.
 
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Elf,
I love buttermilk but you will never see me drink milk...never liked it. Years ago the buttermilk was soooooo good. It had real pieces of butter in it.
Dove
 
I don't know if it's a southern thing or not, but my daddy used to pour a big, tall glass of buttermilk at night and crush up a bunch of saltine crackers in it. He enjoyed it as if it were a heavenly treat. Ugh! I loved my daddy, but...buttermilk and saltines before bed. No can do. Give me a break!!!
 
Buttermilk is what's left over from churning cream to make butter. As all the fat in the cream becomes butter, what's left is fat free.
 
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