Making your own cultured buttermilk is easy and takes only a couple of minutes. You just need to get a buttermilk culture and some milk.
Ingredients
- Buttermilk Culture: Store bought Buttermilk, or a Culture. (amazon link)
- Milk: Either 2% or whole milk for more creamy Buttermilk.
Directions
If using store bought buttermilk to culture, just mix about 1 cup of buttermilk to 3 cups milk shake/mix and let set at room temp (72-82F) for 12-16 hours till buttermilk is as think as you like. Then refrigerate and it will say good for 1-3 weeks. If you re-culture (take 1 cup of the buttermilk and follow the same process as above) it will last another 1-3 weeks in the fridge.
If using a buttermilk culture, bring 1 qt milk up to room temp (72-82F) then sprinkle culture onto milk and let rehydrate for 1-2 minutes. Then shake and let set at room temp for 12-16 hours as above.
Notes:
I used 1 quart of store bought cultured buttermilk and used all but 1 cup of the buttermilk, then poured milk into the quart milk container, mixed by shaking and then let set at room temp for 12 hours.
You can make a substitute for cultured buttermilk by adding 1 tablespoon of lemon juice or white vinegar to 1 cup of milk, mixing and it will create milk that is similar to cultured buttermilk which is made with a culture similar to yogurt.
You can use your homemade buttermilk to make fresh easy to make cheese.