Homemade Buttermilk Syrup Recipe (Video)
This homemade buttermilk syrup recipe is simple and easy to make and is one of our favorite toppings for sourdough pancakes, sourdough waffles, and sourdough french toast. Made with only 5 ingredients, you can easily get this made in the time that it takes to cook the pancakes, waffles or french toast. Buttermilk syrup has a lovely creamy texture and tastes like liquid gold. It doesn’t taste like buttermilk, more like a buttery syrup with a light caramel flavor. It is a great replacement for maple syrup and pairs well with homemade butter on any sweet breakfast meal. Buttermilk syrup can even take things like cinnamon rolls, german pancakes, and apple crisp to a whole new level.
What Is Buttermilk?
Buttermilk is made when heavy cream is agitated until it breaks into butter (the solid butterfat) and buttermilk (the liquid). Read our full tutorial on how to make homemade butter here.
Pantry Staples
We are a homesteading family that strives to produce all of our own food. Because we don’t live in an area where sugar maple trees grow, maple syrup is impossible to make and expensive to purchase. So we are always trying to find other yummy things to put on all of our favorite breakfast foods like wild chokecherry or plum syrup, jelly or jam. But our absolute favorite thing is buttermilk syrup. And the best part about it is that because we milk Jersey cows on our homestead daily, we always have a lot of real buttermilk. This buttermilk syrup helps use up our buttermilk, and the only ingredients in this recipe that we don’t produce is the baking soda and the sugar. We buy the pantry staples we can’t produce like sugar, flour and salt in bulk and store them in our homestead pantry. This not only saves us money, but lots of time since we don’t have to go to the grocery store very often.
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Sweet Buttermilk Syrup
Buttermilk syrup is a sweet syrup and has quite a bit of sugar in it. However, you’re not really eating a lot of it at once, and besides it’s kind of a treat. If it’s made with raw buttermilk and served on something made with sourdough alongside fresh fruit and eggs, then I don’t worry so much. It’s all about balance right? You could make it with cane sugar, and that would make it a little healthier. It will always be much healthier than store-bought syrup because it’s made with simple whole-food ingredients and has no high fructose corn syrup or other nasty ingredients in it.
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Tips For Making Homemade Buttermilk Syrup
- This homemade buttermilk syrup recipe is made with buttermilk and butter, which essentially is just separated cream. If you don’t have any buttermilk, you can make this recipe with heavy cream instead, and it turns out just fine. Just replace the butter and buttermilk with equal parts of cream.
- The syrup bubbles up when you add the baking soda, so be sure to make this in a medium-sized sauce pan.
- Store any extra syrup in a mason jar in the refrigerator and re-heat as needed.
- You can make delicious buttermilk syrup with maple flavoring, almond flavoring, or coconut extract instead of vanilla.
- You can make a buttermilk substitute by adding a teaspoon of lemon juice to a cup of milk and letting it set for a couple of minutes so the lemon juice can “sour” the milk just a bit.
Ingredients:
Buttermilk – I use my own buttermilk leftover from making homemade butter. Store bought buttermilk works fine too.
Sugar – can use sugar cane for a healthier option
Butter – fresh homemade butter is always best, but store-bought butter works well also.
Baking soda
Vanilla – I use homemade vanilla from my pantry
Salt – Redmond salt is my preference
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How To Make Homemade Buttermilk Syrup
Combine butter, sugar, salt and buttermilk in a medium saucepan.
Cook over medium high heat until mixture comes to a full rolling boil, stirring occasionally.
Boil for 1 minute over low heat.
Remove from heat and add baking soda and vanilla.
Stir. It will bubble up a little bit after you add the baking soda.
Ladle hot creamy syrup over pancakes, waffles or french toast and enjoy with a side of fruit!
If you have any leftover syrup, it can be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to a week and reheated as needed.
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Homemade Buttermilk Syrup Recipe
This homemade buttermilk syrup recipe is simple and easy to make and is one of our favorite toppings for sourdough pancakes, sourdough waffles, and sourdough french toast. Made with only 5 ingredients, you can easily get this made in the time that it takes to cook the pancakes, waffles or french toast. Buttermilk syrup has a lovely creamy texture and tastes like liquid gold. It doesn’t taste like buttermilk, more like a buttery syrup with a light caramel flavor. It is a great replacement for maple syrup, jam or jelly and pairs well with homemade butter on any sweet breakfast meal. Buttermilk syrup can even take things like cinnamon rolls, german pancakes, and apple crisp or apple pie to a whole new level.
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup of buttermilk
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/2 tsp. soda
- 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract, coconut extract or maple flavoring
- Pinch of salt
Instructions
Combine butter, sugar, salt and buttermilk in a medium saucepan.
Cook over medium high heat until mixture comes to a full rolling boil, stirring occasionally.
Boil for 1 minute over low heat.
Remove from heat and add baking soda and vanilla.
Stir. It will bubble up a little bit after you add the baking soda.
Ladle hot creamy syrup over pancakes, waffles or french toast and enjoy with a side of fruit
Notes
If you have any leftover syrup, it can be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to a week and reheated as needed.
