Stella's Social Club

[ronott1]

Very pretty Kathy, I love the colors. As for the buttermilk, make biscuits! I'm so jealous of you getting fresh cows milk. I get goats milk. I can make cheese, but not butter. Speaking of cheese, you should make ricotta cheese. All you need is milk and lemon juice.

That is milk left after making butter. It is not cultured buttermilk so it will not rise with baking soda and remove the bitter taste of the soda in the biscuits.

1T. of vinegar would need to be added.

 

[kathyinmo]

That is milk left after making butter. It is not cultured buttermilk so it will not rise with baking soda and remove the bitter taste of the soda in the biscuits.

1T. of vinegar would need to be added.

From the reading I have done...... well, see this:

, but you can also purchase freeze-dried starters (either to establish a mother culture or of the direct-set, one-time-use variety) or simply use store-bought buttermilk to culture more milk. You need to make sure the cultures are still active, however. When testing these various options, I didn't have a problem using my local store-bought option as a starter, but the fresh buttermilk from a local dairy and the freeze-dried starter produced a quicker clabbering and a significantly better tasting buttermilk, in my opinion.

 

[debs_flock]

Oh Kathy, Alton Brown on FoodNetwork has a great recipe for homemade cottage cheese too.

If I had access to fresh, rich cow's milk, I'd be making clotted cream. Fresh scones, homemade strawberry jam and clotted cream and you'll think you died and went to heaven.

Unfortunately I've never found a source here for it fresh, only jarred. I'm sure there are local artisan's that make it, but I've never found it. Probably a good thing, I'd be big as a house!

 

[ronott1]

From the reading I have done...... well, see this:

Exactly!

1C milk and 1T. vinegar is a substitute for Buttermilk.

Please make some real cultured buttermilk and let us know how it works for you.

When I was 12 or so we bought a calf from a guy and he gave us some milk left over after making butter--he said to just drink it. It was very tasty.

 

[lawatt]

I just made some fresh butter. I have been getting fresh milk from the local Amish. I skim the cream and put it in a jar and shake it into butter! Now I have this butter milk ..... I want to find a recipe to use it in. My goal is to be less wasteful. Well, that is one of my goals.

yum! i'm so crazily jealous!!!

kitchen countertops: i went with (cheap) butcher block -- haven't regretted it for a moment in the two years since...

 

[The Sheriff]

Wow you guys have been busy. Please excuse all my typos it is just too hard to go back and fix them once I can see the letters without using the return key. I am soooooo sick of this.

BTW Kelly Michael says Safari on an IOS device is different than on my Mac. That is why it works on my iPad. I may try switching to Firefox for BYC but I will be on less. I hate to have two browsers going.

 

[BlueWater29]

Hi Kathy, Sweet cream butter or cultured butter. You can culture the cream then make the butter or you can make the butter then culture the buttermilk.

Good place for Buttermilk Culture is: www.cheesemaking.com

Mary, Safari is giving me a pain in the ... .

 

[The Sheriff]

OK trying Firefox which works fine. I'll probably get on once in the evenings and cathh up. I have done everything possible to Safari to fix the problem but it isn't with Safari. I shot a little video to illustrate the problem. Sometimes it takes me hours just to get into the Stella thread once the url line starts flashing.

 

[The Sheriff]

Safari works fine for me everywhere on the WWW except the Stella thread on BYC!

 

[capayvalleychick]

I want to make some cheese! I found this little recipe online, but will keep looking.

Here is a fantastic how to site for making all kinds of things with milk:

http://biology.clc.uc.edu/fankhauser/cheese/cheese.html

I use the leftover buttermilk as a substitute for milk in recipes.