Easy Homemade Buttermilk Recipe
Our homemade buttermilk recipe is so easy to make that I make it all the time! Homemade buttermilk can be made with fresh milk or milk that has gone sour. It literally takes me two minutes to throw it together, let it sit overnight and then in the morning I have fresh homemade buttermilk for my pancakes.
I use homemade buttermilk for:
- pancakes
- coffee cakes
- homemade breads
- homemade rolls
- homemade baking powder biscuits
- homemade cakes
- soaking chicken before frying
- buttermilk ice cream
- buttermilk dressing
- homemade scones
When I say I use homemade buttermilk for everything, I do. I just love my homemade buttermilk! If you want to try your hand at making homemade buttermilk, give our recipe a try and be ready for all the great goodies to come!
Homemade Buttermilk Recipe
3 1/2 cups milk
1/2 cup buttermilk, room temperature
Mix ingredients and let sit out in warm spot for 24 hours. After that, you have a fresh batch of homemade buttermilk! This works great. Don’t forget to save a half cup at the end so you can make a new batch of homemade buttermilk. It keeps going and going! Makes 1 quart.
You can use any kind of milk including dry milk, but regular milk works better than skim or dry milk. This recipe is a good way to use sour milk without throwing it away.
Homemade Buttermilk Dressing
1 cup of buttermilk
1/2 cup mayonnaise
Seasonings: I love dill, onion and garlic powder and parsley. If I have some chopped chives will throw some of those in too.
Mix and chill for 3 or more hours to let the flavors combine. This is a great dressing for salads but if you want to make it into a dip, then just add more mayonnaise.
This Homemade Buttermilk Recipe is from our Dining on a Dime Cookbook. For more easy recipes like this homemade buttermilk, check out Dining On A Dime here!
Photo By: jeffreyww
You can save even more money by adding 1 T lemon juice to 1 c milk. Let it set about 5-10 minutes until you see the milk curdling. Use this in place of buttermilk!
You can also use milk that is going sour.
When a recipe calls for buttermilk you can also add 1 tbs. cider vinegar to 1 c. milk. Done this for years. Works just fine.
This is great…how long is too long to let the milk sit? Oh and what’s a good buttermilk biscuit recipe?
I just leave it the 24 hours usually. If it runs over an extra hour or two it won’t hurt it.
This is an easy and good recipe just replace the milk for buttermilk. You can do this for most biscuit recipes. The buttermilk gives anything a lighter texture and good flavor.
Mikes Baking Powder Biscuits
We also have some good recipes in Dining on a Dime if you have a copy of it. We have a ton of “from” scratch recipes in there for everything under the sun if anyone is needing more of those.
I made this a couple of days ago and it worked great. It was almost like yogurt. Good for recipes.
Can this be frozen?
No it doesn’t work very well frozen. It separates.
Ok, thanks.
Just in time, we got a sour milk!