Recipes for a Lazy Sunday

Every Sunday is a family day or simply a day to have a really wholesome home-made breakfast and just laze around.

So to kick off my Sunday, I've made plans to make 2 breakfast items out of this main ingredient, Buttermilk!

What is buttermilk?
Buttermilk is the liquid left behind after churning butter out of cream. They are basically fermented milk and produce this liquid thats thicker than milk with a tangy taste and smell.
Buttermilk for Baking/Cooking: Buttermilk brings a pleasant tang to cakes, breads, biscuits and more while adding very little fat. As it is a rich tasting milk with acidic content, it gives the end product a softer texture and more body.

Okay so when it comes to butter milk, I would use it for 2 recipes as the carton i bought is 600ml which is quite alot. I have decided to use it on the recipe "Buttermilk Pancakes" and "Buttermilk Biscuits"

"BUTTERMILK PANCAKES"
My mother must be really happy today as we used to always have yummy fluffy pancakes in the morning when we still have our domestic helper around. The Pancake mix that is sold in a box at any supermarkets are the ones we always use out of convenience, however today, I've decided to try to make some homemade ones.

I got my recipe from joyofbaking.com, which is also where i get most of my recipes from. The sole reason why i always go back to this website for my recipes is because the measurements they give are very localised as we singaporeans always use grams and not cups. Or maybe, its just me! I prefer doing my measurements with the weighing scale than a cup as i feel it would be more accurate.

So for the Recipe, I would add it in below the photo. Hope you enjoy making this easy recipe!

Ingredients:

1 cup (130 grams) all-purpose

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

2 tablespoons (28 grams) granulated white sugar

1 large, lightly beaten

40 grams unsalted butter, melted

1 Cup Buttermilk

Directions:
1) Mix the dry ingredients together with a whisk (Flour, Baking powder/soda, Sugar and Salt)
2) In another bowl mix the wet ingredients till well combined (Egg, Buttermilk and Melted butter)
3) Mix these 2 bowls of Ingredients together till well combined.
4) On medium heat, cook your pancakes for 1-2 minuted on each sides till lightly browned.

Outcome of the Pancakes I made: They came out less fluffy then i expect them to be. However, taste wise it would be so much better than those store bought pancake mix. My mum loved it!

for more information on the recipe you can go to this link

"BUTTERMILK BISCUITS"

Buttermilk biscuits bring me back to the first time I've tried my first biscuit at Singapore changi airport Terminal 1's Popeye's. If you do not know, Popeyes is a fast food chain that is famous for their chicken and biscuits! My first impression of their biscuits were soft, moist and crumbly. A taste I will never forget. Thus I've decided to make buttermilk biscuits hoping it would turn out pretty much like the ones I had before.

These photos were all taken by me.




For the first biscuits that I'm making in my life, I have chosen this recipe from Recipezaar as I have compared ingredients with other recipes and I think this would turn out best:

Ingredients:

2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour

1/4 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

6 tablespoon unsalted butter, very cold

3/4 cup buttermilk (approx)

Directions:

1) Preheat oven to 230 deg C
2) Combine dry ingredients in a bowl
3) Cut the butter into chucks and cut butter into flour till it resembles course meal
4) Add buttermilk and mix till JUST combined.
5) Gently pat out the dough on a flour board till about 1/2" thick.
6) Use a round cutter and cut the dough
7) Place them on a cookie sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes till golden brown on top and bottom.
8)Brush the top of the biscuits with melted butter and honey if you like

Outcome of my biscuits: They turn out with exactly the same texture as the one i had in Popeyes! I would recommend you to reduce the salt to 1/4 teaspoon as it was on a saltier side. To make the blueberry jam, my mum just boiled honey and add fresh blueberries in. Hope this helps .

I would most definitely use buttermilk again in future as it give all this bake goods such a great tasting taste which is different from those normal recipes with milk. It makes your bake good professional looking!