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North/Central Europe: How To Make Butter and Buttermilk From Scratch

Please note: this article is about making real buttermilk and butter at home. If you're not interested in the butter, and only want a buttermilk substitute to bake with, please check this article about making and keeping a buttermilk plant or artificial buttermilk substitute. For more general information on buttermilk, please click here.

North/Central Europe: Information on Buttermilk

What is buttermilk? Where does buttermilk come from?

Natural buttermilk is a product of the butter-making process. After a cow is milked, the cream is removed from the milk by either allowing it to rise to the top and then pouring it off, or using a mechanical device like a cream centrifuge to remove it. The cream is then churned or mixed vigorously so that the butterfat molecules gather together in bigger and bigger lumps. When the lumps of butter are finally removed, the liquid that remains is buttermilk.

North/Central Europe: Buttermilk Plant

It can sometimes be extremely frustrating to try to do Irish cooking -- which invokes buttermilk constantly -- when you're in a place where they've never heard of buttermilk, or just can't get it.

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