Sour Milk Substitute

I googled "sour milk substitute" and the first match says:

sour milk Substitutes: buttermilk OR Mix one tablespoon lemon juice or distilled white vinegar with one cup of milk, let stand for 5 minutes.

add 1 tbsp vinegar to regular milk and you have sour milk. Or use yogurt. wendy

----- Original Message ----- From: "zipporah" Newsgroups: rec.food.baking To: Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 8:17 PM Subject: Re: Sour Milk Substitute

For crumb cake, I'd go with the buttermilk first as the first choice, then milk with white distilled vinegar. Don't use other vinegars (apple cider, balsamic, etc.) as they'll add other flavors (as will, to some extent, lemon juice).

Good thing to have around for purposes like this: Saco powdered buttermilk.

For sour milk/buttermilk, use a tablespoon of white vinegar and enough milk to make up the one cup. Works really well. Let it sit for five minutes or so at room temperature, and then you're good to go.

serene

I just read in "Cook's" magazine that they favoured mixing with lemon juice over vinigar. The lemon juice version tasted slightly better and was not as harsh. I have heard this one several times but have not yet tried it. I plan to the next time a recipe requires butter/soured milk as I do not stock that very often.

-G