How to Make Buttermilk

Buttermilk is a perennial favorite. This traditional dairy product has been a staple beverage of cultures throughout the world for much of recorded history. It was originally a way to keep milk lasting longer in warm climates and has been a customary beverage everywhere from the Southern United State to Scandinavia to the Indian Sub-continent. In addition to being a hearty drink, it also has a large number of culinary uses and is often implemented to enhance a number of recipes. Recipes that include various baked products such as cakes, cookies, and biscuits. While the addition of buttermilk will make your baked good truly stellar, it can often be hard to find the stuff in grocery stores and supermarkets. Luckily for all of us however, it can be made really easily in the convenience of your own kitchen. Below is an incredibly simple buttermilk recipe that is sure to please.
Ingredients that you will need:
One Gallon of whole milk
A container of cream of tartar.
Items that you will need:
A measuring cup
A measuring spoon
A mixing bowl
Step one:
Pour one cup of whole milk.
Step two:
Take the cream of tartar. Add one tablespoon of the cream of tartar to the milk.

Step three:
Repeat steps one and two as many times as needed until you reach the desired amount of buttermilk.
Step four:
Stir the buttermilk and allow it to sit at room temperature for fifteen minutes.
Step five:
Serve the buttermilk or add it to whatever recipe you see fit.
When making this recipe there are several things that you should be aware of. First, if the buttermilk is left alone for two long, it will start to curdle. This does not mean it has gone bad, instead all that needs to be done is addition stirring so that the curdling subsides. Next, if you are really hard pressed to find cream of a tartar, a reasonable substitute is lemon juice. The proportions and recipe remain exactly the same for lemon juice as they do for cream of tartar. Buttermilk keeps very well in the refrigerator, after all one of the reasons that buttermilk came into existence was as a way to make regular milk last longer in warm climates. As a result, it can stay refrigerated for a few weeks. That said, if you want to make sure it has not gone bad, a good rule to follow is the original expiration date of the whole milk that was used in the recipe.
Now that you have buttermilk ready at your disposal you can explore the wide world of recipes that either require the stuff or are made that much better as a result of the buttermilk’s addition. So, sit back and enjoy your new culinary creations as you use a time honored ingredient that played an important role in the lives of so many before the advent of modern refrigeration.