Making Your Own Cheese: How to Make All Kinds of Cheeses in Your Own Home

By Paul Peacock

Book Overview

'Not everyone can keep a cow, but everyone can make cheese.' This book shows you the very basic equipment needed to make your own cheese: the ingredients, including different milks, herbs and flavours; how to make a simple cheese; and how to produce some of the worlds speciality cheeses such as Roquefort, Brie and Edam. You will find recipes for making many cheeses at home. Whether you are making a cheese cake, a ricotta-based pudding or a stonking salty blue, this book is a cheese lover's guide to making their own favourite food - and there are some recipes for the biscuits to go with it, too. Contents: Cheese: The Miracle Food; How Cheese is Made; Milk, Starters and Other Ingredients; Cheese-making Equipment; Basic Cheese-Making; Hard Cheeses; Soft Cheeses; Cheddar; Blue Cheese; Goats Cheese; European Cheeses; British Cheeses; Manufactured Cheeses; Cooking with Cheese; Cheese for Sweets; Common Cheese-making Problems; Index.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1905862482
• ISBN13: 9781905862481
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: How to Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.6" x 8.2"