Earth To Eats

Two days off – freezing buttermilk

26th July, 2011 - Posted by shawn - No Comments

I took a couple days off there, been super busy.  The heat abated somewhat yesterday and today is supposed to only be in the 80s which is a nice change, but the heat will be coming back.  I feel for the people in the south and midwest who didn’t get even this little break.  We actually had some rain yesterday too which was a nice change of pace.

I made pancakes for dinner last night for the kids – always a treat to have breakfast for dinner.  The recipe I used called for buttermilk.  I don’t know about you but I don’t often keep buttermilk in the house so recipes like this used to be either passed by or I substituted sour milk (milk with some vinegar added.)

But I had buttermilk for the recipe last night since I started to put some in my freezer.  It’s easy to have it on hand if you do the following:

1. Buy a quart of buttermilk.
2. Freeze it in 1/2 cup measures in small containers.
3. When frozen, pop them out and put in a large freezer bag.

Voila!  Buttermilk when you need it.  This is so simple to do and gives you a great recipe ingredient when you need it – no more skipped recipes or trips to the store.  I’ve never had any for more than 6 mos so it keeps at least that long.

Give it a try!