Cheese

Cheese Making. Making cheese at home is a craft whose time has come.

With today's technology, communications and new attitudes about doing things creative, it is about where homebrewing was twenty years ago, viz., about to explode. The cheese in the photo was my first attempt and the best cheese I ever tasted. While it's easy to forget what great cheeses taste like and easy to glorify one's own efforts, the point is, making cheese at home is just another of life's learning processes. While not a slapdash project nor immune to disasters, simple cheeses are no more difficult to make than bread. 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. Cheese Making for Beginners.