Homestead Cheese Making

This is the easiest hard cheese recipe I have seen to date! I’ve been so hesitant to dive into making hard cheeses because it seems like most recipes need to age 3-6 months. That seems like a long time to wait to see if I messed something up and adjust my process! I’m not sharing an exact tutorial since I am by no means an expert yet. I’m just showing you the basic process of cheesemaking so you can see its actually not as difficult as it may seem and simple hard cheeses can be made with an hour or so of hands on time and just a few days of aging in the fridge.

This is the Farmhouse Cheese recipe from the book Mastering Basic Cheesemaking. I can’t recommend this book enough! I wish I would have purchased it back when I was buying raw milk from a co-op before I had my own cow. I could have started learning and making back then and would have been more than ready for all of the milk and cream that comes with having your own cow.

Mastering Basic Cheesemaking: https://amzn.to/3spOuVC

Big Cheese Pot: https://amzn.to/3qJ6ud3

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