Description
This Cheese-making Book helps you master the basics
Start your cheesemaking journey with recipes for ricotta, chèvre, mozzarella cheese, and more.
Make fresh cheese at home with this step-by-step cheese-making guide.
The craft of home cheesemaking is exploding in popularity. From New England Cheese Making Supply Co., Mastering Basic Cheesemaking provides beginners with a complete hands-on guide to making many types of cheeses and other fermented dairy products from scratch.
This guide to homemade cheese-making is a thoughtful present for holidays, birthdays, and other special occasions. Pair it with a selection of high-quality ingredients for making cheese—or even a cheese-making kit.
The perfect place to start, this well-illustrated, clearly written practical guide assumes no prior experience on the part of the aspiring cheese maker. Topics include:
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Understanding your ingredients, tools and techniques
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Whipping up "instant cheeses" such as ricotta and paneer, while learning basic milk chemistry
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Progressing to fermented dairy products such as kefir, yogurt and sour cream
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Using bacteria and coagulant to create spreadable and tender cheeses like quark, chèvre goat cheese, cream cheese, and American style cottage cheese
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Graduating to curdled, aged and ripened cheese—mozzarella, feta, cheddar, gouda, and parmesan.
Author
Gianaclis Caldwell
Format
Paperback | 151 pages