Learn To Make Cheese

Learn how to make homemade cottage cheese using this simple step-by-step method from Savvy Housekeeping.  A perfect cheese for beginning cheesemakers, all you need to make cottage cheese is milk and vinegar as well as your basic kitchen supplies like a thermometer and cheesecloth.   Freshly made cottage cheese is extremely delicious and as this article points out, a great way to use milk that otherwise might go unused.  You can make it with whole or skim milk if calories are a concern.   Rather than the vinegar in this recipe, some cottage cheese recipes call for lemon juice which also works well.   When you’re finished, be sure to salt your cottage cheese recipe to taste.   Add fresh herbs or other flavorings as you like.   The leftover whey water from this method can also be used for making other cheeses like ricotta so don’t dump it!

Instructions and photos after the jump.

Savvy Housekeeping » How to Make Cottage Cheese.

I used to say the most important thing in making cheese is milk.  Then I starting saying that the most important thing to have is patience.  But one thing I left out is the importance of being able to discuss the trials and tribulations of your home cheesemaking adventures with others.   Whether you can meet in person with other cheesemakers directly, or you congregate at online cheese discussions and websites, it’s great to be able to learn from others’ successes and, um, not successes.

For this reason, we were thrilled to come across Forging Fromage, and their post on cottage cheese making at home.  Readers shared photos of their efforts, all of which looked delicious and rewarding.

forging fromage: Rounding up Cottage Cheese results…from our first Forging Fromage adventure!.