I’m excited to share my first pieces for The Old Farmer’s Almanac website—all about cheese! I created a basic cheese making guide to help beginners make their first cheese and experienced cheese makers learn some of the history and details about the process. It includes a recipe for a classic cheese from pioneer days: Farmer’s Cheese. You’ll also find that recipe in a separate post that includes step-by-step photos of the process.
I’m just as excited that by creating these pieces for Almanac.com, the editors have added more recipes to their website for making cheese and other dairy products. The website’s collection now includes recipes for homemade ricotta, yogurt, and butter. I have another piece in the works for their website, too.
Learn how to make cheese in this guide, and get the complete recipe for Farmer’s Cheese, with step-by-step photos, here.
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Once you master the basics of cheese making and realize how easy and delicious it is to make farmer’s cheese, I invite you to try out variations of it and expand to other types of fresh cheese and homemade dairy products. I often make farmer’s cheese with lemon juice, which brightens the flavor of a potato-and-cheese filling for pierogi. Other acids can be swapped in for citrus hits that pair well with certain dishes, like lime juice for Grilled Fish Tacos or orange juice for Huckleberry and Cheese Crepes. If you press farmer’s cheese, using items already in your kitchen as weights, you create fresh paneer ideal for Paneer Tikka Masala.
Different fresh cheeses can be almost as easy to make as farmer’s cheese, and some other homemade dairy products take even less hands-on time. Here are some of my favorites already on the blog:
Need more encouragement to make your first cheese? Check out this blog post. You can find more recipes for making cheese, and recipes that use homemade cheese, in the recipe index. You can also read more of my work off the blog here.
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