# Need buttermilk ideas. (Other than biscuits) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 30, 2020, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-buttermilk-ideas-other-than-biscuits/852872 "2020-04-30T04:04:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-buttermilk-ideas-other-than-biscuits/852872/1 "2020-04-30T04:04:21Z")
I bought some buttermilk a few days ago with the idea of making biscuits. I’ve since decided against it. What else can I use the buttermilk for using things that I’m likely to have around the house? ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-buttermilk-ideas-other-than-biscuits/852872/2 "2020-04-30T04:55:47Z")
Cornbread. 2 cups cornmeal 1 tsp each of salt and baking soda 1 egg, beaten 4 tbsp vegetable oil 2 cups buttermilk grease a pan; preheat oven to 400°; mix the dry ingredients together, then add the others just as the oven finishes preheating, pour into the pan, bake for 50 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-buttermilk-ideas-other-than-biscuits/852872/3 "2020-04-30T04:56:51Z")
Buttermilk is also the basis of a really nice ranch salad dressing. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-buttermilk-ideas-other-than-biscuits/852872/4 "2020-04-30T05:14:17Z")
Pancakes are good with buttermilk. If you make the cornbread you can crumble some the next morning. Pour buttermilk over it. A very country breakfast or snack. Or, drink it. ---
**Author:** ![Allthegood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@Allthegood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Allthegood)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-buttermilk-ideas-other-than-biscuits/852872/5 "2020-04-30T05:14:36Z")
Buttermilk pancakes, buttermilk ranch dressing, buttermilk blue cheese dressing, buttermilk pie, southern style buttermilk fried chicken, buttermilk pound cake, buttermilk muffins, or use it in mashed potatoes in place of whole milk. I also highly recommend AHunter3’s cornbread recipe, yum yum yum. ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-buttermilk-ideas-other-than-biscuits/852872/6 "2020-04-30T06:04:21Z")
I recall a vendor at the annual Gilroy (Calif) Garlic Festival serving buttermilk-garlic ice cream. Proceed at your own risk. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-buttermilk-ideas-other-than-biscuits/852872/7 "2020-04-30T06:41:33Z")
> [@RioRico](#): > > I recall a vendor at the annual Gilroy (Calif) Garlic Festival serving buttermilk-garlic ice cream. Proceed at your own risk. Sorry, but my life is not an episode of “Chopped.” ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-buttermilk-ideas-other-than-biscuits/852872/8 "2020-04-30T12:52:36Z")
Drink it. Or give me your address and I will come and get it. And then I shall drink it. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-buttermilk-ideas-other-than-biscuits/852872/9 "2020-04-30T13:08:55Z")
Soda Bread. Don’t have Mrs T’s recipe to hand, but [here’s](https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/irishsodabread_67445) a specimen one off the BBC website. They’re usually reliable. j ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-buttermilk-ideas-other-than-biscuits/852872/10 "2020-04-30T13:27:35Z")
Approximately 20 years ago I saw a chef named Juan Carlos Cruz on TV. He’d been heavy but developed healthier cooking habits. His program, “Calorie Commando,” was an attempt to make some popular dishes less unhealthy. He was ALWAYS using buttermilk—lots of flavor for the calories it cost, he said. Here’s someone’s appraisal of the fried chicken recipe: > **[Commando Fried Chicken | What'sCookin'Chicago?](https://www.whatscookinchicago.com/2009/01/commando-fried-chicken.html)** > > My friend Howard prepared this dish for my Chef Spotlight Dinner where we focused on health conscious chefs. He chose to highlight Juan Carlos Cruz of the Calorie Commando and brought this delicious chicken dish! Commando Fried Chickenrecipe from... If his name doesn’t ring a bell, it’s probably because he went to prison for trying to hire a hit on his wife. “Two sources close to the couple, who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter, said their 20-year struggle to have a child overwhelmed them.” But because her religion would consider it a sin to kill herself he decided to get a couple homeless guys to do it. > **[Former Food Network chef sentenced in murder plot](https://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/12/13/california.tv.chef.case/index.html)** > > The former host of the Food Network's "Calorie Commando" was sentenced Monday to nine years in a California prison after pleading no contest to soliciting two homeless men to kill his wife, Los Angeles Superior Court spokeswoman Elizabeth Martinez... ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-buttermilk-ideas-other-than-biscuits/852872/11 "2020-04-30T19:27:19Z")
Oxblood chocolate cake. [This recipe](https://cookingbythebook.com/dessert-digest/seattle-oxblood-cake-clementine-paddleford/) is similar to the one I’ve been using for 40 years or so. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-buttermilk-ideas-other-than-biscuits/852872/12 "2020-04-30T23:51:07Z")
Drink it! I almost always have a half gallon of buttermilk in the fridge, just for drinking. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-buttermilk-ideas-other-than-biscuits/852872/13 "2020-04-30T23:59:14Z")
Buttermilk oatmeal bread. It’s a lightly sweetened quick bread. ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2020, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-buttermilk-ideas-other-than-biscuits/852872/14 "2020-05-02T09:33:59Z")
[Lemon poppy seed](https://platedcravings.com/lemon-poppy-seed-bread/) bread/cake I often just sour milk by adding lemon juice to the milk instead of using buttermilk. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-buttermilk-ideas-other-than-biscuits/852872/15 "2020-05-08T00:06:27Z")
Chicken tenders. The best chicken tenders I’ve ever made were ones soaked over night in buttermilk. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-buttermilk-ideas-other-than-biscuits/852872/16 "2020-05-08T00:11:54Z")
A cross between a smoothie and a lassi: put that buttermilk in the blender with the frozen or fresh fruit of your choice, and honey to taste. I do this in the summer with fresh peaches, and it’s just about the most delicious drink on earth.