Showing posts with label cheese making. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cheese making. Show all posts

Saturday, July 5, 2008

What a Bummer.....failure in cheese making....

Sigh.... so excited yesterday when I got a hold of a gallon of raw goat's milk. You see I really wanted to make cheese with it. I have made both mozzarella and ricotta with cows milk with great success, and kept being told I should really try it with goats milk and it would be even better. So you can imagine my excitement when I finally had a gallon of fresh from the goat milk. The mixture that never formed was very acidic and I can only imagine that perhaps the milk was acidic and the citric acid balance was wrong. Oh well, I will not give up, I will do my best to get more and try, try again. I read the problem solving section and there are a few possibilities, colostrum in the milk, to much acidity, or the rennet went bad. I will try with cow milk again and see what happens. Unfortunately, now I really don't want to cook dinner and that is never a good thing!