Buttermilk Syrup

2 cups sugar
1/4 cup Karo syrup
1 cup buttermilk*
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 cup butter
1 tsp vanilla

Combine and boil for 1 minute all ingredients EXCEPT vanilla.  After mixture has boiled, add vanilla.  Yield 3 cups.

*You can use powdered buttermilk, but do the amount to make 1 cup of buttermilk, not 1 cup of buttermilk powder (right, Melissa Een?).  Although when we added enough of the other ingredients to go along with 1 cup of buttermilk powder we had enough syrup to last for months.