A view of the dairy refridgerator with our 9 waxed cheeses and bottled milk.Thank you Bessie!
Monday I made cheese #13, using 3 gallons of fine Bessie milk. When she first freshened in April we were getting over 3 gallons of milk a day, but now that we are sharing milk with Miss Sunshine, we only get the overnight milk, usually about 1 gallon. So it now takes several days to accumulate enough milk for a cheese.
We are calling it Farmhouse cheese - and each one is very different from the next. They must age for a minimum of 3 months and of the 4 we've eaten so far, several have been soft like a Havarti, and several others dry and crumbly, like a Wensledale. Either way they are all delicious!
Here are a couple of photos of Bessie and Sunshine this September.
Sunshine at 5 months.
Bessie - her sweet self. Due to calve in May 2010!
We are calling it Farmhouse cheese - and each one is very different from the next. They must age for a minimum of 3 months and of the 4 we've eaten so far, several have been soft like a Havarti, and several others dry and crumbly, like a Wensledale. Either way they are all delicious!
Here are a couple of photos of Bessie and Sunshine this September.
Sunshine at 5 months.
Bessie - her sweet self. Due to calve in May 2010!
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