On Thu 16 Jul 2009 10:30:37a, Lou Decruss told us...

> On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:10:38 -0700, "Paul M. Cook" >
> wrote:
>
>>> Recipe please?
>>
>>
>>Well there are hundreds of web pages devoted to this, Leeners.com is
>>where I buy from.
>>
>>The key is the milk, you must get as close to raw as you can get. If
>>you can get milk straight from a dairy you'll have the best luck. You
>>want to use whole milk but bear in mind whole milk by dairy standards
>>has much more fat than store bought whole milk. I add a cup of cream
>>per gallon. All milk sold in stores is pasteurized. Not all is
>>homogenized, though. The homogenized milk does not yield the best
>>result as the fat does not coagulate to form the curds like you want.
>>But there are places you can get fresh organic milk that is just
>>pasteurized. If you have connections, pure, raw unpasteurized milk
>>makes the best cheese.
>>
>>All you do is warm the milk, about 2 gallons, to about 88F, add your
>>rennet and slowly raise the temperature to 105F. Now you want to
>>maintain the 105 for about 15 minutes. You'll have a nice heavy curd
>>which you'll spoon off into a strainer or cheese cloth. Then you'll
>>cool, dry and salt the cheese curds.
>>
>>The final step is you put the dried curds into hot water and let it get
>>soft, then you pull it like taffy in your hands in the hot water. When
>>it is shiny and stretchy you form it into balls by folding it over and
>>over into a lump.
>>
>>That's basically how it's done. You can buy everything online.
>
> Like I didn't need one more thing on my "want to do" list. When you
> say you add a cup of cream are you talking about when you use store
> bought milk? I'll have to see if I can get the raw milk from a farm
> out where our cottage is.
>
> Thanks for the inspiration. It looks like the rennet isn't all that
> expensive. I can probably cross the cheddar curtain and get it in
> Wisconsin.
>
> Lou
>

You can buy rennet tablets in almost any supermarket or WalMart. They are
usually located nearby the Junket dessert mixes, which are based on rennet.
The tablets are plain.

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