How do they make buttermilk?
The calendar says that summer is just around the corner. The sultry days ahead will call for cool salads and cold drinks. We can choose from dozens of different summer drinks, but old Andy thinks that not one of them compares with a glass of coal, refreshing buttermilk. No one would mistake buttermilk for butter or whole milk, but you cannot make it without also making butter and both butter and buttermilk must be made from milk. Bath are made from the rich butterfat that We call cream. This butterfat is suspended in fresh milk as tiny globules that measure from 3,000 to 20,000 to an inch. The globules of cream are too small for our eyes to see and they are lighter than the rest of the milk. .If fresh milk is allowed to stand a while, they rise to the top in a layer of rich cream. Our ancestors let their milk stand in wide crocks and skimmed off the cream as it floated to the top. A modern dairy whizzes the fresh milk through separators that separate the cream from the milk. The cream
1448478, depends on the type of the butter Posted by Kellanved on Sun Jul-25-04 07:58 AM If the milk is from sour butter making; it is already buttermilk (and a higher grade at that). Milk from sweet butter has to be fermented with sour cultures in order to become buttermilk. There is nothing better than buttermilk with flakes of butter still in it…
