What is the difference between SACO Buttermilk Blend and liquid buttermilk?
The liquid buttermilk on today’s market, is made from only cultured skim milk, and contains not even one drop of real buttermilk. While it may work in recipes that call for buttermilk, as does soured milk, it does not provide the benefits of using real buttermilk. SACO Cultured Buttermilk Blend is made from real buttermilk! When cream is agitated in a butter churn, the membranes around the fat globule membrane separate from the fat globule. This allows the butterfat to precipitate out in the form of butter. The phospholipids, meanwhile, remain in the fluid phase. The fluid that remains, after all the butterfat has been removed as butter, is similar to skim milk except it contains the phospholipids and proteins from the fat globule membranes. These phospholipids are natural emulsifiers! When real buttermilk is used in a recipe, the presence of these emulsifiers results in finer dispersing of the shortening throughout the batter. The smaller air cells which form in the presence of the em
