1,483 buttermilk recipes

Homemade fried elephant ears: sour-cream and buttermilk dough rolled thin, slit, fried golden, then tumbled in cinnamon sugar. State fair pastry made in your own kitchen.

Easy chocolate fudge made with pudding mix, butter, milk, and powdered sugar. No candy thermometer needed for this creamy shortcut fudge recipe with optional walnuts.

Peppernuts cookies with ground raisins, coconut, and nuts in a brown sugar-buttermilk dough, rolled into ropes and cut into bite-sized pieces. A Mennonite holiday tradition.

Twice-baked Idaho potatoes stuffed with sauteed onions, green peppers, butter, milk, paprika, and melted cheddar. Rustic, hearty, and piled high in the shell.

Chocolate layer cake stacks three buttermilk chocolate layers with a warm date-and-nut custard filling, then coats the whole thing in fudge frosting. An old-fashioned three-layer showstopper.

Poulet Nouvelle Orleans, buttermilk-soaked fried chicken plated Southern-style with sausage, bacon, corn on the cob, and broiled tomatoes. A Louisiana-French centerpiece.

Traditional German drop donuts (Tropfkrapfen) made with a buttermilk batter, fried golden and dusted in powdered sugar. Crispy outside, tender and cakey within. Simple old-world charm.

Sweet rhubarb quick bread with brown sugar, chopped nuts, and a homemade buttermilk made from milk and vinegar. Makes two moist loaves that freeze well.

Classic Maine-style lobster stew with just four ingredients: fresh lobster, butter, milk, and cream. Simmered gently and aged overnight for the deepest, sweetest lobster flavor.

Keepsake biscuits, old-fashioned sweet biscuits made with butter, milk, sugar, and cream of tartar. A shelf-stable, hand-shaped biscuit designed to keep for weeks.

Nanny's Irish soda bread made with sour cream instead of buttermilk for an extra-tender crumb. Studded with raisins and lightly sweetened with sugar and vanilla.

Pan-sized lemon blackberry pancakes are giant skillet pancakes built from buttermilk-style batter with whipped egg whites and fresh berries. Brunch upgraded to showstopper status.

Un-fried chicken: oven-baked chicken breasts with a crispy Old Bay, herb, and breadcrumb coating. Yogurt dipped instead of buttermilk dunked, for a lighter take on classic fried chicken.

Rich devil's food layer cake: a deeply dark, old-fashioned two-layer chocolate cake made with melted unsweetened chocolate, brown sugar, and buttermilk-style milk. The birthday cake blueprint.

Light and fluffy banana bran pancakes made in a blender with bran flakes, ripe banana, nutmeg, and buttermilk. A wholesome breakfast that sneaks fiber and fruit into golden, tender pancakes the whole family will love.

Double chocolate Coca-Cola cake, a moist chocolate sheet cake made with real Coke and buttermilk, finished with warm chocolate frosting poured over the still-warm cake. A Southern potluck classic.