Thick, fluffy buttermilk pancakes served the American way with glazed bacon buttermilk drop biscuits maple syrup. This easy pancake recipe will save your brunch.

Add 1 tbsp of lemon juice to every 100ml of milk called for in the recipe. Stir the lemon juice into the milk and allow it to sit for 10-15 minutes until the milk has thickened and soured. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read about our approach to external linking.

On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Percentages are roughly approximated using US recommendations for adults. Buttermilk is a fermented dairy drink. Traditionally, it was the liquid left behind after churning butter out of cultured cream. Buttermilk can be drunk straight, and it can also be used in cooking. In making soda bread, the acid in buttermilk reacts with the raising agent, sodium bicarbonate, to produce carbon dioxide which acts as the leavening agent. Originally, buttermilk referred to the liquid left over from churning butter from cultured or fermented cream.