Usually means: Cultured milk with tangy flavor.
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▸ noun:  The liquid left over after producing butter from full cream milk by the churning process, also called traditional buttermilk.
▸ noun:  Cultured buttermilk, a fermented dairy product produced from cow's milk, with a characteristically sour taste.
▸ noun:  A light yellow color, like that of buttermilk.

Similar:
churnmilk, sweet milk, cream, butter, whey, butterfat, butteroil, thrusting, filled milk, renovated butter, more...

Opposite:
regular milk, sweet milk, whole milk

Types:
cultured, sour, more...

Phrases:
cultured buttermilk, Buttermilk pie, buttermilk biscuit, buttermilk sky, buttermilk pancake, more...

Adjectives:
cultured, fresh, soured, cold, sweet, more, fat, good, condensed, little, bulgarian

Colors:
    cream,     ivory,     beige,     pale yellow,     light gold, more...



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Similar:
churnmilk, sweet milk, cream, butter, whey, butterfat, butteroil, thrusting, filled milk, renovated butter, more...

Opposite:
regular milk, sweet milk, whole milk

Types:
cultured, sour, more...

Phrases:
cultured buttermilk, Buttermilk pie, buttermilk biscuit, buttermilk sky, buttermilk pancake, Buttermilk Falls State Park, Buttermilk Crispy Tenders, more...

Adjectives:
cultured, fresh, soured, cold, sweet, more, fat, good, condensed, little, bulgarian

Colors:
    cream,     ivory,     beige,     pale yellow,     light gold, more...



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