Where to buy butter milk in Edinburgh?

[Max0001]

Hi foodies

Moved to Ed for the summer and loving it, of course
however I'm used to baking my own breads (health loaves/
wheaten breads etc) and for this I need butter milk.
Checked all the supermarkets and none to be had.
Anyone know where I can buy some? Only need a litre (ish)
a week.

Much appreciated!

Max

[Celyn]

But even my local Tesco has it!* Not that that factoid is any use to you, but I mean your Edinburgh shops must have some, surely? Failing that, isn't there any possible cheating work-around like adding yoghurt or adding something acidic like lemon juice? Or find an Indian (or similar) shop and see if lassi might be any use? Actually, you might want to disregard that advice, as you are probably a keen cook and Celyn is a failure cook whose cheating work-arounds *sometimes* work and sometimes do not. Or you could make bread with recipes that don't use buttermilk until you find the buttermilk.

I seem to recall that you are new to Edinburgh, or are temporarily there. In that case, it's worth mentioning these foody supply questions to your colleagues at work/university/whatever it is: people will always be happy to help a newcomer settle in, and there really must be buttermilk somewhere around, and all it takes is a colleague to advise you where to go.

When new to anywhere, there's always a bit of a muddle finding out where the right places are, and while I do see that traipsing around on a hungry quest in a city in hot weather would not be fun, I reckon that you will soon find somewhere that can sell you the right food.



* Or claims to have. I mean, I was not sufficiently moved by your plight to go traipsing off to a Tesco on a Saturday evening to check, but I was sure it has some, so I looked on its online shopping site and it does claim to have buttermilk. And, yeah, people, I know there are plenty of reasons for not using Tesco - I merely picked on it because if even Tesco in my fairly insalubrious area stocks it, surely you can find some, either by finding some small useful delicatessen, or by using a Tesco or a Sainsbury or a Waitrose that does have it? Am not recommending Tesco per se.

[Max0001]

Cheers Celyn

Appreciate you traipsing around the Stresco website in any case. Did look in Tesco's in ....um....oh...some town on the way out to Peebles....but when I asked the staff, they looked at me as though I'd asked for wing of bat and eye of toad!

But, traipsed out to Asda this evening courtesy of Lothian Buses # 35 which goes right past my door and right past Asda's also. They have buttermilk in the 'polish deli' section, imported from Poland! Go figure.

Did google it and as you say, there are suggested work-arounds, but I've just mastered fruit sodas, or whatever you guys call 'em here, (fruit doorsteps? so not gonna mess with perfection and simplicity itself

Yeh, movin around as I do, is a bit of a stressor at times, but I find there's always some kind soul on a boards to help. Thanks Celyn!

Max

[Celyn]

Originally Posted by Max0001

... when I asked the staff, they looked at me as though I'd asked for wing of bat and eye of toad!...

Well yes, well might they look askance, given that you got your recipe wrong. What you wanted, really, was:

.. . "Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and howlet's wing,--
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble."
..

Good luck with finding that lot.

What the hell is a "fruit doorstep"?

[Max0001]

Be easier to find 'that lot' than it was to find bloody buttermilk

If not a fruit doorstep, what do you call a sodabread loaf with fruit in it? I shudder to think though. After all, you call the carbs you add to a cooked breakfast, 'potato cakes'!

The country that gave the world the deep fried Mars Bar and offal in a stomach, can't really be superior about any other country's recipes!

Though you do make amends with your whiskies

[Celyn]

Originally Posted by Max0001

Be easier to find 'that lot' than it was to find bloody buttermilk

After all, you call the carbs you add to a cooked breakfast, 'potato cakes'! ...

No, I don't think I do.

Originally Posted by Max0001

The country that gave the world the deep fried Mars Bar and offal in a stomach, can't really be superior about any other country's recipes!

Though you do make amends with your whiskies

I do not think that I was in any way trying to be be

superior about any other country's recipes!"

I do not know what is your country of origin anyway. You have not, I think, mentioned it. And who is it who is bothering to be helpful here and who is it who prefers to be superior here right now?

I first thought that you were genuinely seeking advice. I thought I might try to be helpful.

Oh do go on ... tell us which is your country of origin and I am quite sure you will find a whole lot of your own old peasant recipes involving lots off offal.

Of course, if I am wrong in this, I shall, of course, eat numble pie.

[Max0001]

Sorry if I caused any offence. Realise I need to choose my words more carefully and engage brain before keyboard. I'm an Ulster Scot, therefore I have no country that I can call my own. My country is my beloved and my family and friends. For what its worth though, there's nowhere I feel more at home than Scotland. When I set foot on Scottish soil, my heart beats faster, my step is lighter, as are the burdens I carry. If one day I settle here, I will consider myself truely blessed for the beauty of this country is matched only by that of its people.