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Off the Grid/Homesteading Skills:  Cheese making at home  |
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Annika
True Blue Farmgirl
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Annika
USA
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batznthebelfry
True Blue Farmgirl
1257 Posts
Michele
Athol
Ma
USA
1257 Posts |
 Posted - Oct 21 2011 : 11:25:37 AM
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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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karla
True Blue Farmgirl
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karla
Pella
Iowa
USA
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countrymommy85
True Blue Farmgirl
898 Posts
Krystle
MT
USA
898 Posts |
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msdoolittle
True Blue Farmgirl
1143 Posts
Amanda
East Texas
USA
1143 Posts |
Posted - Oct 26 2011 : 11:05:29 AM
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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
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AmberNWichita
True Blue Farmgirl
113 Posts
Amber
Wichita
Kansas
USA
113 Posts |
Posted - Jan 04 2012 : 10:16:24 AM
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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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Edited by - AmberNWichita on Jan 04 2012 10:23:34 AM |
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
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kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - Jan 07 2012 : 5:54:42 PM
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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
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FieldsofThyme
Farmgirl Guide & Schoolmarm / Chapter Leader
4928 Posts
USA
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prayin granny
True Blue Farmgirl
1874 Posts
Linda
Kansas
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Posted - Jan 10 2012 : 8:48:12 PM
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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
www.scatteredlittleblessings.blogspot.com
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oregonatural
True Blue Farmgirl
152 Posts
Susan
Sprague River
OR
USA
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Posted - Jan 13 2012 : 10:29:40 AM
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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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msdoolittle
True Blue Farmgirl
1143 Posts
Amanda
East Texas
USA
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Posted - Jan 22 2012 : 8:54:29 PM
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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
www.mylittlecountry.wordpress.com |
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windypines
True Blue Farmgirl
4186 Posts
Michele
Bruce
Wisconsin
USA
4186 Posts |
Posted - Jan 24 2012 : 04:24:14 AM
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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.
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Montrose Girl
Farmgirl Legend/Schoolmarm
1360 Posts
Laurie
Montrose
CO
1360 Posts |
Posted - Jan 24 2012 : 1:41:22 PM
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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/ |
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - Jan 24 2012 : 3:40:24 PM
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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. |
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msdoolittle
True Blue Farmgirl
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Amanda
East Texas
USA
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msdoolittle
True Blue Farmgirl
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Amanda
East Texas
USA
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Montrose Girl
Farmgirl Legend/Schoolmarm
1360 Posts
Laurie
Montrose
CO
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Posted - Jan 24 2012 : 7:28:32 PM
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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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Cheese making at home
