Que maniacal laughter....
We've recently acquired 14 litres of buttermilk and plan to get at least as much, if not double that amount more, all for free! Hurrah! (Normally we'd have to pay over $4 a litre.)
Have you plundered a dairy you ask? NooOOOooo silly reader, we're one of a few thousand beneficiaries of someone's big mistake: A local grocery store accidentally added a few additional zeros when ordering more supplies recently. They were alerted to this when a transport truck arrived in town with their order in the form of Twelve thousand litres of buttermilk (instead of the 12 litres or so they'd intended on purchasing) and the store is giving it away for free instead of throwing it out. Today I asked a clerk how much of the order has been given out since it arrived last week and she said that approximately half of the order remains and that it is moving slowly. However, considering that the store typically only sells 4 or 5 litres a week, getting rid of 6, 000 litres, albeit for free, in the same time seems rather quick to me.
Along with most of the town, we're now hunting up buttermilk recipes, other than for use in pancakes, for which TheManNorth has a killer recipe of his own. (Feel free to share favourite buttermilk recipes of your own or send me a link, if you like.)
Why couldn't they return the order? Aside from the lengthy time it would take to do so is that there wasn't time to make arrangements for it before highway transport became impossible. The ferries that carry highway traffic across two local rivers have just stopped running as the rivers are icing up and the only way in and out until the ice is thick enough for the ice roads to be ready (about a month from now) is by air.
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My sister had this exact problem once (and went through a month-long buttermilk phase):
http://gorgeoustown.typepad.com/lex_culinaria/2007/05/2_litres_of_but.html
http://gorgeoustown.typepad.com/lex_culinaria/2007/05/buttermilk_oran.html
http://gorgeoustown.typepad.com/lex_culinaria/2007/07/chocolate-and-c.html
http://gorgeoustown.typepad.com/lex_culinaria/2005/06/morroccan_butte.html
http://gorgeoustown.typepad.com/lex_culinaria/2007/05/green_pea_prosc.html
http://gorgeoustown.typepad.com/lex_culinaria/2007/05/fresh_ricotta_p.html
Or,... you could make a large batch of bran muffins and freeze them.
Ooooh. Yum!
I'm certainly going to be trying out a few of those recipes. Thanks muchly!
Holy cow! (lots of cows, actually) Now you've got me thinking... I need to research buttermilk recipes.
Final tally of buttermilk obtained:
101 litres!!!
I've not tried any of the yummy recipes from lex culinaria yet but have made a yummy spinach soup and TheMan North has made multiple batches of biscuits in addition to just drinking the buttermilk (shudder). I'm very interested in trying out an ice cream recipe but as we only have dried skim milk on hand, I'm not sure how it will turn out if I use that in place of whole milk. (Fresh whole milk is a wee bit too expensive right now, particularly now that the ferries have stopped running and all supplies are being flown in.)
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