Yes, only baking, as powdered buttermilk doesn’t reconstitute.
I have a leftover carton of buttermilk in my fridge from making saag the other day. I’m not sure what to do except try and make more saag. It seems a shame to just let it sit in the fridge and rot.
Buttermilk is an essential ingredient in Soda Bread.
I’ve not got a link to a recipe, but it should be in most good cook books.
Drink it!
The proper thing to do with buttermilk is to make cornbread with it, then next morning when the cornbread is left over & cold you crumble it up in a bowl and pour some of the leftover buttermilk over it and eat it like cereal.
I spent some time trying to recreate the mango lassi you get at Indian Restaurants. The recipes calling for yogurt didn’t taste right. Then I took a can of mango pulp and a quart of buttermilk, and bingo. Exactly what I wanted.
I don’t know if it’s authetic, but it’s absolutely perfect.
I just did my food shopping, and this thread inspired me to pick up some buttermilk. I’m having a big glass of it now, and pancakes tomorrow morning. Mmmmmmm!
I love buttermilk and drink at least two 12 oz. glasses a day. I’d go into buttermilk withdrawal if I couldn’t get it to drink! Mr. HP refuses to even touch the outside of the cartons.
I tasted buttermilk as a kid and thought it was the worst thing I’d ever tried. I was horrified that according to lore my grandfather drank a glass of it every night. (Although, from the information upthread, he may have been drinking a different variety.) But as an adult, I rather like drinking kefir with fruit. Is kefir really similar to buttermilk? My Indian friend makes her lassies with kefir.
This was one of my Dad’s favorite snacks! I mostly use buttermilk for cornbread and pancakes.
Not over here in the Netherlands, though - here it’s almost exclusively used as a straight-up beverage. Yummy stuff, especially with sandwiches on a hot day.