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| Annika |
Posted - Oct 21 2011 : 07:08:43 AM
Here are a few links and some suppliers of cheese making equipment!
I have access to plenty of goats milk, so I'm going to play around with that until I can get my mini jersey 
http://makingsenseofthings.info/2010/12/how-to-make-brie-cheese-at-home/
http://simple-green-frugal-co-op.blogspot.com/2009/05/making-cheese-at-home.html
http://www.cheesemaking.com/
http://schmidling.com/cres.htm
http://www.leeners.com/cheese.html
Annika
Farmgirl & sister #13
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ~Leonardo DaVinci
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| Montrose Girl |
Posted - Jan 24 2012 : 7:28:32 PM
Oh wow. I have a friend with a soy allergy. I wonder if she realizes that cheese could contain soy. What we do to our food.
Thanks Amanda,
Laurie
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| msdoolittle |
Posted - Jan 24 2012 : 6:50:25 PM
Oh, and here's something to tick you off about rennet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rennet
MORE GMO JUNK! GRRRR.
FarmGirl #1390
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| msdoolittle |
Posted - Jan 24 2012 : 6:43:52 PM
Laurie,
People used to make their own rennet from calves' stomachs, nettles, and other plants. See this: http://cheesemakinghelp.blogspot.com/2011/04/making-rennet-from-fig-sap.html
I would imagine that the taste is probably the same, especially in fresh cheeses, but apparently some rennets are not good for cheeses which need aging, and then some work better for certain types of milk.
FarmGirl #1390
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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Jan 24 2012 : 3:40:24 PM
I read somewhere that the flower of the thistle plant was used as rennet. But how much to use? I would like to try some but not sure. I use a vegetable rennet and wonder if the other kind makes the same cheese taste different?
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
| Montrose Girl |
Posted - Jan 24 2012 : 1:41:22 PM
I guess I'm interested in how cheese was made before store bought rennet and all the other supplies they sell you.
Laurie
http://www.inntheorchardbnb.com/ |
| windypines |
Posted - Jan 24 2012 : 04:24:14 AM
Homemade dairy products are great. I have a cow and make all my own cheese's, yogurts etc.
None of it is hard, just time consuming. But I always have a few different projects going at the same time.
Michele |
| msdoolittle |
Posted - Jan 22 2012 : 8:54:29 PM
I just got in New England Cheesemaking supplies "Home Dairy Deluxe kit", and made some yogurt. I can't believe the junk that's in the store! (I have hated Yoplait for years) I'm teaching a cheesemaking class this Saturday for my Farm Girls. Ought to be fun!
FarmGirl #1390
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| oregonatural |
Posted - Jan 13 2012 : 10:29:40 AM
Annika, Thank you so much for the great links! My grandmother used to make home-made cottage cheese and my mom, who is now 83, said that if you EVER had grandmas cottage cheese you'd never eat the stuff from the store. I wish I knew her secret. I'll have to try it!
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| prayin granny |
Posted - Jan 10 2012 : 8:48:12 PM
Thank you! I have wanted to try cheese making! Hoping to give it a try next month!!
It's good to know I can find support and help if I need it!!
Blessings,
Linda
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| FieldsofThyme |
Posted - Jan 10 2012 : 08:35:25 AM
Thanks for the links. I'm planning on making ricotta very soon. It's so versatile.
Farmgirl #800
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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Jan 07 2012 : 5:54:42 PM
I am thinking that I want to make the little house next door into a kitchen (maybe commercial, depending on cost) to make cheese. I am going to check out how much it will cost to do it. It's already got a kitchen but would need to all satinless steel. And I'd need a few refrigerators too. Anyway, it's something I have been thinking about. And the house is just sitting there. It's either that or make it a barn. I just hate the thought of state inspectors here all the time checking on everything. I am too much a rebel. Even if I don't go commercial, I can still sell cheese, just not to restaraunts or at farmer's markets. Which I could make alot more doing that. But would have to spend so much more. What to do?
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
| AmberNWichita |
Posted - Jan 04 2012 : 10:16:24 AM
I have been making yogurt, cream cheese, farmers cheese, butter, and paneer. I haven't ventured into making chedders, and other soft cheeses yet but the cheese I have been making is so easy. I wonder why more people don't make their own staples.
I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.
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| msdoolittle |
Posted - Oct 26 2011 : 11:05:29 AM
Queso blanco is beyond easy and soooo yummy. Hint: Use lime juice instead of vinegar. I never knew that making cheese was so easy. Our next FarmGirl class will be about cheesemaking.
FarmGirl #1390
www.mylittlecountry.wordpress.com |
| countrymommy85 |
Posted - Oct 25 2011 : 4:22:17 PM
I've made butter and it was fun but I would LOVE to make cheese!
Mothers are those wonderful people who can get up in the morning before the smell of coffee. ~Author Unknown
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| karla |
Posted - Oct 21 2011 : 11:46:22 AM
Hoeggers also carries everything you need in one place!
http://www.hoeggerfarmyard.com/xcart/home.php
Love them! They are prompt & very knowledgable!
Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
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| batznthebelfry |
Posted - Oct 21 2011 : 11:25:37 AM
ahhh thank you for the links!! i started learning to make cheese last year when I found a farm where I could get fresh raw milk...I don't do it very often but it sure is fun & I want to eventually do some of the harder cheeses...if I can find the time..lol...Michele'
Chickens rule!
The Old Batz Farm
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