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How to Make Buttermilk Substitute

Buttermilk is a kind of cultured milk, somewhat similar to yogurt.It is a richer liquid, compared to whole milk.

Thus it imparts a richer / moister texture to baked goods which use buttermilk, and at the same time adding a slight tang to the taste.

However, most of the time, the recipes will not be using the entire carton of buttermilk, and you may find it a waste to just purchase a carton of it, to only use half the amount.

Find out how to make buttermilk substitute easily using ingredients from your pantry!

Lotus Root Soup 莲藕汤

This is a slow simmered soup to bring out the richness and goodness of the ingredients. Many times, this simple lotus root soup is the childhood comfort food of many. There are different ways to cook this soup, where some of us love to add chicken feet and black beans for additional boost of nutrition.

Yogurt White Loaf Bread 优格蛋白吐司

An enjoyable everyday bread, made using egg whites and yogurt as part of the main ingredients.This is a good recipe for soft bread if you have leftover or extra egg whites to be used.

Piggie Tang Yuan 可爱小猪汤圆

These are cute deco piggie tang yuan, featured on Mediacorp’s Channel 8 News for Yuan Xiao Jie. This is a new recipe with super Q Q chewy dumpling skin. We really enjoy the dumpling skin, which tastes pretty much like mochi, so I am using a higher proportion of the skin. You can also refer to an easier recipe I have used previously, and adjust the proportion accordingly.

Cranberries Apricot Loaf Cake 蔓越莓杏桃磅蛋糕

This cranberries apricot loaf cake recipe is similar to a pound cake recipe, just that there is an additional egg yolk added.

For this particular recipe, the cake has soft and fine crumbs, which we really enjoyed. I reduced a little sugar in this cake, and replaced with some milk. On the overall, the dried fruits and syrup also contributed to the sweetness of the cake, which I find is okay for my taste buds.

Green Bean Soup 绿豆汤

Green bean soup is a type of Chinese dessert (Tong Sui / 糖水). I love this simple dessert since I was a child, and I am so glad that it’s really easy to cook this!

This dessert is usually prepared when the weather is hot here in Singapore, as it is said to be “cooling” and able to “dispel heatiness” in our bodies. I remembered there was a year when the haze was really bad, and the green beans were wiped out on the grocery shelves!

This dessert can be taken hot or chilled – I particularly love eating this chilled on a hot day!

Osmanthus Snowskin Mooncakes 桂花冰皮月饼

These osmanthus snowskin mooncakes was one of my old posts in 2014! Decided to take new photos and update the recipe. I always look forward to Mid-Autumn Festival because I really love seeing the pretty mooncakes on sale and tasting them. Making mooncakes is also quite a fun thing to do, especially the snowskin ones – and we don’t even need to bake! So, it’s great to try this out if you are a beginner baker! 🙂

Cinnamon Wholemeal Bread Buns 全麦肉桂面包

I really love cinnamon! These buns are soft wholemeal buns, with a slight cinnamon scent. Best of all, it’s an easy and straightforward dough method.

Wholemeal Nian Gao Loaf Bread 全麦年糕吐司

This wholemeal nian gao loaf bread was a recipe I tried last year. The photos were a little dull, so I decided to redo them this year!

Do you still have any nian gao left in your refrigerator?

Nian gao (年糕) is a block of sweet cake made from glutinous rice flour for Chinese New Year celebration. There are many myths and practices on this sweet cake, originating from the olden days to now. Nian gao can be eaten during the CNY period, or if well-kept, to be refrigerated and eaten through the year.

For my family, we really enjoy eating this little sweet treat! What’s more about adding the nian gao into making bread?! We love the texture of this bread! It is soft and chewy. The texture can be described as “绵密” in Chinese.