buttermilk
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2.5
- noun
- /ˈbʌtərˌmɪlk/
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suero de leche
- Hank, his eyes still watering, ordered eggs, hash browns, and a side stack of buttermilk pancakes.
My grandma had a three day process with the buttermilk.
- My grandma had a three day process with the buttermilk.
- OK, It goes into into the buttermilk.
- Owen knew about his allergies and he explained them to the server who did not know that the burgers had been in soaked in buttermilk.
- We're going to eat our very fancy caviar with Franken buttermilk bread.
Examples
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When I was small, Betsy, our cow, gave us milk for making buttermilk to have with our praties.
Fiction book (2000) -
I bought him a bottle of buttermilk and an egg sandwich.
Fiction book (1993) -
Uh, do we have any buttermilk in the house?
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We'll have buttermilk pancakes tomorrow.
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We are having dinner, and Belle has made her famous buttermilk fried chicken.
Fiction book (2002) -
Fresh, cultured buttermilk adds brightness to the cream.
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Mama crumbled cornbread into her glass of buttermilk and mashed it all up with one of the long spoons.
Fiction book (1990) -
"Ginny's eyes were distant as she stirred buttermilk into cornbread batter."
Fiction book (2001) -
You can make delicious pancakes using buttermilk instead of regular milk.
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For a tasty marinade, let the chicken sit in buttermilk overnight before cooking.
Synonyms
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1.4
Food that comes from animal milk, like cheese or yogurt
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Etymology
Buttermilk is simply butter + milk, because it was the thin liquid left when people made butter from milk. Today buttermilk often means milk that is made a little sour on purpose, so it still has the tangy taste of that old leftover liquid.