h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Buttermilk used to make mashed potatoes is rather good.

I'm with hstwrd - I'm lactose intolerant, and that soy stuff makes me feel awful, so I think it's running into another allergy.

Buttermilk keeps and it makes baked goods taste better.

Now, I liked that flavoured stuff in Germany.

I think I'll have to write buttermilk on my next shopping list.
But NOT the flavoured variety.

Bel, the stuff you mention - the milk left when the butter's taken out - is what it used to be like here, too. The stuff you get now is slightly different though. It's skimmed milk with cultures added - it's a bit like natural yoghurt, but more milky in consistency.

I kind of like buttermilk 50/50 with ice-cold soda water.

KB, try my dad's favourite snack: A glass of buttermilk with crumbled-up, leftover quick bread in it. In his case, biscuits (this is a quick-bread here) or cornbread.

It might work with soda bread...

Sounds like real farmer fayre!

In the olden days, when you could still buy REAL milk (not the pasteurised, homogenised stuff you get now), my mum filled bowls with milk and left them in the larder for a day or two. The milk turned into 'Dickmilch' <(sour, thick milk, and we had that with dark rye bread crumbs and sugar as a light meal on hot summer days.

We are experts on pore folk's food.

Yes, certainly. Food had to be cheap. Nobody cared whether it was healthy. Nobody would have known anyway.

When people had less to eat, high caloric content was a *plus*. Like using drippings, gravy, and other ways to make sure you got the good of fat.

Hence my dad with the buttermilk. They had milked those cows. My grandmother had churned the butter...

Which I got sick from. I had to be raised on margarine.

ah, yes, dickmilch (tykmælk in danish) with dark rye bread crumbs sweetened with brown sugar, i remember it well

for weeks we had that every night in our commune in the countrysuide north of aarhus, dk, back in the early 70's

after that we smoked a huge cuban cigar each

one of our comrades brought those back to us after having w*rked voluntarily for fidel and his people

those were the days!

Oh nos... this butter milk thing sounds too complicated... which sort do I need for makign the soda bread? and can I buy it anyhwere... <he

the best kind of food is:- at someone else's house

Ahh... they don't sell butter milk.. hmmm... another fine idea ruined and I was looking forward to makeing the sodabread

Yippie! they do sell buttermilk.... helped if I searched for the right thing

Seriously....

A search (the one I did first), for "butter milk" returned just the one item in the shop, some biscuits
the search (second one I did), for "buttermilk" returned just one item too, a 250 ML bottle of buttermilk best go look at the recipie again and see how much of it I'll need plus any other ingrediants I'll need to get My obsetion with baking bread is getting quite worrying soon there will be no space in the kitchen cupboards for anything except bread making supplies

You could get a breadmaker.

But not for cornbread.

man can not leave by bread alone - have toast instead

oops!
live by bread alone

thicko me