[Cilan will go ahead and look over their mixing bowl while she looks at the buttermilk, giving the mixture a few experimental stirrings with the whisk to be sure--well, it looks like everything is in order here!]

Now that this is done, the next step will be the last step we have to do before we'll be able to add our batter to the pans: when you add our mixture of flour in from earlier and the buttermilk to this, I find that it's best to alternate between the buttermilk and the dry ingredients. Always start with the flour and end with the flour.

[What he means by that is, as some people do, you don't dump both in all at once to stir together--it's best to pour and stir in some of the flour, then the buttermilk, then the flour and so on and such until the last of the flour is added in and the mixture has taken on the appropriate texture of cake batter. Which he will in fact demonstrate for you himself as he does just that, adding some of their flour mixture in and stirring it into their wet mixture, before reaching for the measuring cup that they can pour the amount of buttermilk they need into it.]