buttermilk
buttermilk — 名詞
1. the thin, watery part of cream that stays behind once the butter has been separa
白脫牛奶
製作奶油後剩下的液體
the thin, watery part of cream that stays behind once the butter has been separated out; people drink it or bake with it.
After churning cream, Grandpa Selim poured the leftover buttermilk into a clean jar.
攪完鮮奶油後，Selim 爺爺把剩下的白脫牛奶倒進乾淨的罐子裡。
buttermilk as the liquid left over from making butter
Esme added a cup of buttermilk to the pancake batter.
Esme 在鬆餅麵糊裡加了一杯白脫牛奶。
baking: add buttermilk to batter
Hiro drank a glass of cold buttermilk after helping on the farm.
Hiro 在農場幫完忙後，喝了一杯冰涼的白脫牛奶。
drink + a glass of buttermilk
Once the cream became butter, Rafael kept the buttermilk for baking.
奶油做好後，Rafael 把白脫牛奶留下來拿去烘焙。
keep buttermilk for baking
Grandma Apinya makes butter at home and uses the leftover buttermilk in her bread.
Apinya 奶奶在家自己做奶油，並把剩下的白脫牛奶用在麵包裡。
用法筆記
Uncountable here: say 'some buttermilk' or 'a cup of buttermilk'. Distinguish from sense 2, which is a milk drink made on purpose with bacteria, not a liquid left over from making butter.
常見錯誤
2. milk that has had special bacteria mixed into fresh, sweet milk, so that it turn
酪乳；發酵乳
加入菌種發酵而變濃稠的牛奶飲品
milk that has had special bacteria mixed into fresh, sweet milk, so that it turns into a thicker drink.
Sivan's dairy makes buttermilk by mixing bacteria into fresh milk every morning.
Sivan 的乳品廠每天早上把菌種混進新鮮牛奶裡，製成酪乳。
make buttermilk by adding bacteria to milk
At the supermarket, Élise chose a carton of thick buttermilk instead of plain milk.
在超市裡，Élise 挑了一盒濃稠的酪乳，而不是一般的牛奶。
Iris stirred buttermilk into the dough, and the bread came out soft.
Iris 把酪乳攪進麵團裡，做出來的麵包很鬆軟。
baking: stir buttermilk into dough
Padma shook the bottle of buttermilk before pouring a glass for her little brother.
Padma 在倒給小弟弟一杯之前，先搖了搖那瓶酪乳。
用法筆記
Distinguish from sense 1: this is a milk product made deliberately with bacteria, not the liquid left over after butter is made.