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Cooking & Baking

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Marthe48

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Sun Nov 16, 2025, 10:53 AM Sunday

Using up buttermilk today [View all]

I wanted buttermilk chicken. I only need about a cup of buttermilk and had my treat a couple of weeks ago. I made a small batch of buttermilk biscuits, too. But still have buttermilk to use up. I remembered I liked buttermilk pie and haven't made it for a long time. I was just going to make the filling, but decided to make the pie and share it with my family. I found a recipe for buttermilk spice cake in one of my old recipe books. I will carefully follow it and see what happens. (no temperature or bake time listed!) I noticed in some of the other recipes I used, that some of the ingredients are mentioned in passing in the instructions, so this will be a pleasant challenge. If it turns out, I'll donate most of it to the warming center for the local homeless. They said I could if I packaged it individually.

My other challenge is that the buttermilk was against the back of the fridge and froze solid. I think it'll be okay to use for baking, but I have to wait for it to thaw.

The buttermilk pie is just a custard pie made with buttermilk. It is also called oatmeal pie. I switched out chopped pecans for the oats (a garnish for the top). I don't like buttermilk,, but the pie is crazy good.






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Using up buttermilk today [View all] Marthe48 Sunday OP
I remember making buttermilk spice cake in 7th grade cooking class. Diamond_Dog Sunday #1
I hope Marthe48 Sunday #2
I enjoy baking, too Diamond_Dog Sunday #3
The recipes turned out good Marthe48 Sunday #4
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