How can I quickly use up more than half a gallon of buttermilk?

Buttermilk ice cream
Buttermilk chess pie
Garlic-buttermilk mashed potatoes
Buttermilk poundcake
The chicken on Smitten Kitchen that you soak in a buttermilk marinade

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05/27/2020 12:30

Subject: How can I quickly use up more than half a gallon of buttermilk?

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Anonymous

Whoops, the Smitten Kitchen chicken is really Samin Nosrat's.

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05/27/2020 12:33

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Anonymous

If you have a mixed cake mix you can use buttermilk instead of water. It is amazing in red velvet mixes but would work with other mixes too.

You can marinate any type of chicken. I always marinate in buttermilk before grilling or baking chicken as it keeps the moisture in with dry cooking techniques.

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05/27/2020 12:50

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Anonymous

Make a bunch of waffles or pancakes and freeze them. Or yes, as someone suggested above, you can freeze it (maybe in the amounts you would use for one batch of waffles) and then thaw later to use in a recipe.

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05/27/2020 12:54

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Anonymous

This one bowl cake uses a cup of buttermilk, and the cake was eaten in an instant in our house.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/dining/celebration-cake-recipe-coronavirus.html

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05/27/2020 13:06

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Anonymous

It lasts forever - seriously, months after the use by date - so don't sweat it til you need it. I was very very dubious of this claim (made to me by my mother who grew up on a farm) until I needed some buttermilk and mine had "expired". I used it and it was fine - good, even!

Smitten Kitchen says the same thing.

Also - if you run out, you can make buttermilk by adding lemon juice to milk/cream.