|
We’re back!!! In an earlier blog, Say Cheese Please part 1, we talked about some equipment hacks you can use for pressing cheese, and shared our DIY drying rack setup & cheese presses. Hopefully, you all have been dreaming up your own ideas on how you can press cheese?
Now let’s talk about cultures, powders, rennet, & even cheeses you don’t need all that stuff for!
0 Comments
Many of us with Kinders find that we end up with far more milk than we can drink, unless we have kids of course. What happens when you have too much milk? Many of us start out with the soft cheeses, such as Chevre. Why? It’s very easy to make, you can create a variety of cheeses buy just adding some herbs of choice. But what about the firm cheeses? Quite a few of us haven’t wanted to take the plunge……afraid that it would be harder than we wanted , however the plunge is FUN and easier than you think. Equipment to expensive for you? Well, you can be surprised how creative you can get when you really want something.
We would like to share our experience with some softer pressed cheeses, like our Feta and our White Cheddar that needs to be pressed, waxed, and aged. Though it takes some planning, it really isn’t hard to do at all. Looking at it as individual steps, instead of a whole process, and it’s far easier than you think. Though we aren’t actually sharing recipes with you, (YET), we do want to share the process to encourage you to give it a try! So cheese please! Cheese needs only four things to make: milk, cultures, salt, and rennet (or other curdling agent, like lemon juice or vinegar). We use just plain old Kosher salt. You can make cheese without cultures, just herbs to flavor, like the Indian version Paneer or use Buttermilk as a culture. We like using cultures, including buttermilk, it gives us far more variety in cheese making. Your first step is having milk of course! Most recipes call for 1-2 gallons of milk. But let’s talk about DIY cheese equipment hacks first…. |
Archives
April 2019
Home, what more can we say?
a sunset to share
Flathead Valley eastern mountains
Good morning!
Flathead River
sunset during fire season
Hwy 83
another amazing sunset
our version of spring
|
|
Copyright © 2012-2019 Kalispell Kinders & More! by Brenda Lee, all rights reserved. Except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976; no part may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a data base or retrieval system without prior written permission of the
copyright holder. Montana Homestead Goats™ is trademarked by Kalispell Kinders & More! Kinder® is the registered trademark of the KGBA |
|
RSS Feed