"kilikini" > wrote in message
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> "Reg" > wrote in message
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>> kilikini wrote:
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>> > This is making me want to try! How do you regulate curd size in the
> cottage
>> > cheese? Both my husband and I love large curd (yes, cringe people
>> > <g>).
>>
>> kili, here's a recipe for large curd cottage cheese. As soon as I
>> unpack the right moving boxes I'll take a look through my cheesemaking
>> books and see what else I have specifically for large curd.
>>
>> http://www.leeners.com/cheesesemi.html#cottage
>>
>> The mesophilic starter referred to in the recipe can be
>> substituted with 1/4 C of high quality buttermilk.
>>

I really can't recall what my grandmother did to make cottage cheese, but
there was no such thing as temperature gauges, gauges on a wooden stove,
weather and humidity outside gauges, nor probably even the store-bought
rennets of today -- no stores -- I wish I remember more, but all I recall
was that she hung a big flour sack of curds on the line to drain. This
grandmother was not interested in cooking and I'm sure if it was complicated
at all, she did NOT do it; i.e., no cake at this grandmother's house! Of
course there were cows aplenty to fulfill any failures.
Dee Dee