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June 25, 2008
I made Cheese!
Finally.
I've been trying to make this 30 minute mozzarella forever. Well, it seems like forever. I've tried at least eight times, maybe ten, and it's never come out. The troubleshooting that I did was quite extensive - changing the type of milk that I used, the type of rennet, adding calcium chloride, changing the type of acid that I used to break the curds from the whey. And, still didn't get mozzarella that would actually stretch.
It finally happened. I picked up our first two gallons of raw milk yesterday and couldn't wait to try and use it for cheese. Last night at 10:30, I used half of the gallon to make yogurt and half of the gallon to make mozzarella. And it worked! After all of those failed attempts, I have the recipe and process memorized so perhaps all those failed attempts were not in vain. Last nights cheese-making went off without a hitch and we have a lovely ball of fresh mozzarella sitting in the fridge waiting to grace a bowl of pasta or a home-made pizza. I'm so happy about this!
Posted by Mary at June 25, 2008 03:59 PM