buttermilknoun [ U ]
uk/ˈbʌt.ə.mɪlk/us/ˈbʌt̬.ɚ.mɪlk/the liquid that is left after taking the fat from cream to make butter
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Dairy products & eggs
- albumen
- butter
- buttery
- clotted cream
- condensed milk
- egg
- egg white
- egg yolk
- evaporated milk
- frittata
- half-and-half
- milk
- pasteurize
- semi-skimmed
- single cream
- skimmed milk
- soft-boiled
- whole milk
- yogurt
- yolk
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Examples from literature
- And when the butter is all taken out in a lump, some sour milk is left, and they call that buttermilk.
- In recipes in which milk is used as one ingredient, either sweet or buttermilk may be used but not a mixture of both.
- Skim-milk and buttermilk, when the butter is made from sweet cream and taken fresh, are both excellent foods, although lacking the fat of new milk.
- Sour milk and buttermilk are quite as good as cream of tartar, because the lactic acid which they contain combines with the soda and liberates carbon dioxide, and forms a harmless residue in the dough.
- Then, right in the park itself, were little booths where one could buy glorious, ice-cold, sterilized milk and buttermilk at a penny a glass.