My father loved to drink buttermilk, but I never managed to acquire a taste for it. Father also liked to tear up bread into dish and put buttermilk or regular milk if that's what was around the house and eat it like cereal. Do you do that also?

I never did like to drink buttermilk, but I do love to cook with it. A lot of my older relatives also crumbled leftover cornbread into buttermilk.

Never drink milk, but love buttermilk. Only have it occasionally.

I don't use buttermilk over anything. I do like milk over just cornbread that is sweetened. I don't put milk over any bread or crackers.

Sue

I can't stand to drink it, but do use it a lot for homemade dressings, marinades, and baking. I almost always have some in the fridge.

Only in pancakes and recipes.

I don't have it often, but I do like the taste. Hubby likes it over crumbled cornbread but I like mine in a cold glass with a sprinkle of salt.

Yes, I love it. Well, the cultured buttermilk sold in stores that is. A while ago we stopped by a local dairy and bought a quart of their "real buttermilk" -- it was thin and not very tasty. Does anyone have experience with that, I wonder?

I've never tasted it in my life. I've never even seen it!

No....not drinking it. Makes GREAT fried chicken and Ranch dressing tho!

My grandfather loved it, but we use it only for cooking...especially biscuits. A small bowl of saltines with milk when not feeling up to par.

Have always enjoyed a cold glass of buttermilk, more than a glass of whole milk. Very nice used in baking. Makes banana nut bread moist and delicious.

This is sentimental for me as my dad loved buttermilk. I never acquired a taste for it, but when i see it or when it's mentioned, I remember my dad.

Casey - I find it's one of those things people either love or hate. It's terrific used in buttermilk biscuits, etc., and dressing. I love it paired with cucumber.

I've never tasted it. Can anyone explain the taste? Or it one of those things that stand alone. Years ago someone told me it tastes like sour curdled milk.

It is sour, but I've never tasted sour milk. I do use sour milk for baking, though.

Love it! I don't have it often, though. I enjoy drinking what's left over after using it in a recipe.

I use to drink it all the time, but haven't for a long time. I can't find any good ones. The ones at my local stores are thin and watery and don't have that old fashion buttermilk taste. They are OK for cooking but not drinking. Can anyone recommend a good brand?

I don't drink it anymore but I use it a lot for baking. Cornbread, banana nut bread, breading for okra, lots of other things. My Dad loved it too and my Mom would drink it occasionally. I remember drinking a little bit when I was a child but not much. I don't even drink regular milk much now, just almond milk.

I don't drink it (and I do drink milk, daily) but keep it to use in recipes. I have some in the refrigerator now I should check the date on, think of something to use it in before I've lost it. My sister keeps powdered buttermilk on hand for her cooking while I'd rather have fresh.

My dad loved a tall glass of buttermilk with cornbread crumbled in it.

I do enjoy buttermilk pie :o)

The brand I use is Meijer. The half gallon of buttermilk is creamy tasting and not thin, it says it is low fat though.

Sue

I cook with it, but I don't drink it straight up. I don't drink milk straight up anymore either. Not since college, when they kept mixing the skim into the whole (and the skim had invariably gone bad).

Next time I buy a quart for baking/cooking I'll try a sip.

I don't drink milk or butter milk. On the rare occasions I will have a little chocolate milk, hot chocolate. Yogurt, and Kefir I keep around.

I do sometimes cook with it.

I'd consider it tart. I drink it a few times a year, sprinkled with course ground pepper.

I'm amazed it's sold in stores. I think of it as something 'old-timey', something people raised on farms would commonly drink. My mother liked it. It's 'tangy' -- sort of 'not quite' sour. DH and I drink 1% milk and use it on cereal.

I've never understood why humans like something intended for calves -- indeed, some people are lactose intolerant. Lactose intolerance would be an interesting thing to trace alongside DNA.

My late mother loved a tall, cold glass of buttermilk in pre-AC days - said it was refreshing on a hot day. I do cook with it and love summer cold soups made with it.

I don't drink it but I cook with it....biscuits, dumplings, pancakes, fried chicken, various cakes I bake, cornbread, etc. I don't drink any milk....ever. Gags me.

I tried to drink it once when I was a kid because my parents loved it so I assumed I was missing out on something good. I hated it. I use it for recipes and it's fine for that. I did try to drink it more recently thinking that I just didn't like it because I was a kid but I don't like it any better now than when I was a kid. Love it in Ranch dressing though.

My dad thought milk was the perfect food. It is....for calves. He was very upset because I wouldn't drink it. We had a milk cow and they ended up selling her because we couldn't use all the milk she produced. (Plus I think my mother was tired of milking.). After that we got milk from the milkman. He came early in the morning and he came inside and put the milk in the refrigerator. He didn't knock.... just said "Milk Man" as he came in the door. I am sure my dad was lactose intolerant. He drank so much milk and he always had stomach trouble. He lived on Tums.

I agree with Glenda, buttermilk pie is the best.

I love it! It is one of my favorite things. I put a dash of salt on top and can drink three glasses in one sitting. Due to this I only buy it once in awhile.

Marilyn_c --Gosh, the image of our milkman came immediately to mind when I read your post. I miss that whole world of Trust. We never locked our doors during the day in the 1940's-50's. Kids would go in and out of one anothers' homes -- always 'somebody home'.

I love buttermilk! And used a lot of it when I was baking both for family and for sale. Drank lots of it back then. I rarely bake any more, so I seldom buy it. I don't drink plain milk, either. I guess I've never really liked it since I moved off the farm, and grocery stores started carrying only homogenized milk.

Rusty