Market Look-For’s

• An ingredient list that includes milk and culture.
• Avoid additives like carrageen or agar agar. I find this to make the buttermilk unnaturally smooth.
• Find milk that you believe in. For me, that is milk that is free of rBH and ideally either organic or raised humanely.

Storage

• Buttermilk will have an expiration date, but it technically has already gone off, so I ignore that date. Just smell it and pitch if it tastes excessively sour or has mold on the inside.

Notes

• The acidity in buttermilk is what gives pancakes and biscuits their lift. If you don’t have buttermilk in the house, mimic it by thinning yogurt with some milk.