Fankhauser's Cheese Page. Here is an abbreviated (roughly) alphabetized table of recipes on this site.
Note that some are homesteading recipes beyond cheese: Links? News flash: Culinary Institute of America Kids website features Fankhauser's Neufchatel recipe here. Here is a new page for beginning cheese makers which lists a series of cheese making projects starting with the simplest to the more challenging. If you are new to cheese making, and wish to try this rewarding cottage craft, go to Beginning Cheese Making.
I have been making cheese since the early 1970s when my wife, Jill and I began "homesteading" on a little farm in SW Ohio. Here are recipes for cheese and other fermented food products, and milk-related information pages, all alphabetical except for the first and newest additions. Cheesemaking - Online Store. Cheese Making, Home Cheese Making Supplies at The Grape and Granary. Moorlands Cheesemakers - Suppliers of Farm and Household Dairy Equipment - Cheesemaking kits, supplies & accessories. Cheese Making for Beginners. Cheese Making Basics. While cheese making a fairly simple process, it helps to learn the basics before you begin.
Starting with a little history. Archeologists believe goat cheese was “invented” around 6000 B.C.E. We know it was a favorite of the Sumerians by 4000 B.C.E. Ancient Egyptian murals depict cheese and buttermaking, and cheese is mentioned in the Old Testament. The Greeks adored cheese. The caseale, or cheese kitchen, was a fixture in Roman villas. The first European cheese, quark, is described in records dating to 3 B.C.E. Cheese making is a relatively simple process that involves the curdling of milk to separate curds (those milky white clumps in ricotta and cottage cheeses) and whey (a clear to yellowish, watery fluid used to make whey cheese).
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Note that some are homesteading recipes beyond cheese: Links? News flash: Culinary Institute of America Kids website features Fankhauser's Neufchatel recipe here. Here is a new page for beginning cheese makers which lists a series of cheese making projects starting with the simplest to the more challenging.