And no, Brian did not buy me a cow. The lovely folks at Hampshire Farms gave us a call awhile back and announced that they had A)finally started a very small cow share program and B)had a drop off location just down the road from us! I've looked in to other cow share programs and even beg Brian regularly for a little Jersey of our own. You can read about all of that in my Real Milk? post.
This cow share is truly the best setup possible for us at this time. We got a first gallon 2 weeks ago. I poured the cream off and made butter. Has anyone else tried the trick of making butter out of heavy cream by shaking it in a jar? You know how it takes forever? Well... real, fresh cream doesn't take forever. In fact, I barely had time to pull up a blog while shaking and I heard a thump. Holy cow, my butter was already done!
I'm just going to drink this gallon since we won't have much time to make anything with it before vacation. In the future I'd like to try yogurt and even cheese.
If you're local and you'd like to join the program I can put you in touch with Hampshire Farms.
Do you have any good recipes or creative ways to use raw milk?
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I recently spoke to my grandma about how to pasteurize. She used to pasteurize on the wood stove, and said she'd bring it almost to a boil and then take it off the heat. Just in case you want to pasteurize it.
Also, you should try ricotta cheese. It's SO incredibly easy.
That is so awesome!
Way cool! :)
Hi Jena,
Here is my yogurt recipe.
http://3flatacres.blogspot.com/2008/03/homemade-yogurt-recipe.html
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