Showing posts with label home dairy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label home dairy. Show all posts
28 January 2016

Cheese test!

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Today I cut open the first cheese I made on January 15: It is very mild yet, sort of... Gouda-ish. Very yummy.  I've sealed it back up a...
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15 January 2016

Yes, I am ironing my cheese

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24 June 2014

Barter

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Today I went on a road trip to Rocky Mountain house, and this is wht I came home with! I left behind a cooler full of beef, which we had...
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23 June 2014

The First Cheese: Caerphilly

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I decided that one of the cheeses was ready for eating. It’s a Caerphilly, which is meant to be eaten fairly young, so I trimmed the rind an...
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20 June 2014

Ready

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Ready to make butter tomorrow!
01 June 2014

I need a bigger milk can.

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4.25 litres.  My milk can holds 2.  Clearly I was not sufficiently optimistic!
30 May 2014

Another day ...

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... another three litres of milk. And a litre of cream. (that's about 2-3 days worth of cream) For anyone tracking Dexter mi...
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28 May 2014

Half a pound of butter and a cheese cave

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Today I made just a half pound block of butter – I wanted to use up the cream I had, even though it wasn’t going to make a full block. I...
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27 May 2014

Dairy.

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We have milk. Oh, do we have milk. Sasha is giving me about 4 litres a day now – at two weeks into her lactation. Zoinks! And the calf i...
25 May 2014

Butter

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The cream was overflowing the fridge, so I decided it was time to make butter. I tried using the blender, as I’d read about online, but ...