Buttermilk

[Bird]

Never heard of clabber...what is it?

Soured milk that has thickened and curdled, so it doesn't just run through a pillow case or bag made of cheese cloth while it's left to drip and continue to dry to become cottage cheese.

 

[Gatorboy]

I like butter and I like milk, but buttermilk is just plain nasty.

 

[Bill Barrett]

I used to really like buttermilk as a kid. We never had farm fresh milk, and the buttermilk always came in a carton, but I do remember that it used to have tiny flakes of butter in it. Today, the supermarket buttermilk never has butter flakes in it....I guess they got more efficient in separating the butter from the buttermilk. It doesn't usually seem to have the same tang to it that I remember, but I still like it sometimes. We normally only use buttermilk when making thin "fried" cornbread, so a quart will often go bad on us before it all gets used, especially since the DW decided the shortening rich cornbread was bad for me.

Chuck

I use to get a brand here called Goldenflake it had flakes of butter in it.
Clabber sounds like high dollar health food store Kefer. Here is a good site on dairy products.
International Dairy Foods Association - IDFA - International

 

[jimg]

re clabber
Thanx, thats interesting...sort of near yogurt. I dont recall anyone in this neck of the woods making it. I wonder if its more regional??

 

[milkman]

re clabber
Thanx, thats interesting...sort of near yogurt. I dont recall anyone in this neck of the woods making it. I wonder if its more regional??

We didn't make it either, we didn't have electircity till '53 and any left over milk that set out and didn't get fed to the hogs, would turn sour and turn to clabber, it was just a natural process. Lots of times we would have milk and cornbread for supper, and to keep the milk from spoiling we would put it in gallon glass jugs and carry it to the spring and let it set in the cold water till supper time, good stuff.

 

[jimg]

OK, thats explains it...we (and everyone around that area) had electricity and by extension refrigeration. So, it would have had to been made on purpose...which it wasnt.

As an aside you must have lived WAY out b/c the REA make electric available to nearly everyone....even the poorest. At least thats the way it was where I grew up.

 

[Bird]

We didn't make it either, we didn't have electircity till '53 and any left over milk that set out and didn't get fed to the hogs, would turn sour and turn to clabber, it was just a natural process. Lots of times we would have milk and cornbread for supper, and to keep the milk from spoiling we would put it in gallon glass jugs and carry it to the spring and let it set in the cold water till supper time, good stuff.

Yep, milk and cornbread makes a good supper, and then shaking milk in a large mouth gallon jug with a little vanilla and sugar (a few ice cubes if you've got'em) makes a good milk shake for dessert.

 

[milkman]

As an aside you must have lived WAY out b/c the REA make electric available to nearly everyone....even the poorest. At least thats the way it was where I grew up.

Yep, REA is the one that run the poles and wires, cost $300 , a fortune at that time, to have the house wired, a used Coldspot referigerator is the first appliance we had and the thing kept us awake for a long time, wasn't used to the noise.

 

[jimg]

I guess TVA must have somehow made up the diff or something b/c most everyone had electric early on down here.

"the thing kept us awake for a long time, wasn't used to the noise."