Introduction: KISS Principle Cheese

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I know there are lots of recipes for Cheese, and I wanted to try one, but I wanted my cheese now and not

after a while so here is my down and dirty KISS Principle Cheese and it is so easy peasy!

Supplies

1 Liter (1 Quart) Milk (in the original recipe it was Goats milk, I used fresh Grass fed milk)

1 Cup of Vinegar or Lemon Juice ( I used 1 cup 1/2 & 1/2)

Flavouring: I used Salt Pepper, Chives and Ramsons/wild Garlic.

Sauce pan

Sieve

Cheese cloth

cord

Step 1: Turn the Heat On

Put your Milk in a sauce pan and heat it up to about 82°c (180°f)

you want it to Foam up a bit at the sides and not boil up.

Step 2: Mix Your Juice

You can use a cup of vinegar or a cup of Lemon.

I used a cup of 1/2 Lemon and 1/2 vinegar (I´ll talk about this later)

Step 3: Mix Your Mix

When the milk starts to foam up turn off the heat (I left it on the hot ring) then add your

cup of Lemon/vinegar and give it a good stir, then leave it for 10 minutes

Step 4: Prepare Your Flavourings

You could at this point prepare your flavourings, or later in a coming step.

I used a plastic box which I will use later to store.

I just put in a pinch of salt and dash of pepper. Then I used a pair of Scissors and cut the chives and leaves of Wild Garlic (Ramsons) into small pieces.

This I gave a good mixing up in the box.

Step 5: Hang Em Up to Dry!

After 10 minutes the Milk should have Cured and you now line a sieve with 2 layers of Cheese-cloth.

Put the sieve in the sink and pour the contents of the sauce pan into it.

You can then draw the cheese cloth together give it a press and hang it up to dry with a cord.

I left it for about an hour.

Step 6: Flavour Your Cheese

After an hour or so open up the cheese cloth and you see a kind of cottage cheese, add your Flavouring

to it, mix it up good.

I then put it in a box to store in the fridge. You should use it within four days.

Step 7: Notes

I found it worked great, you could use any flavour you want like Chille, or Bell Peppers (Paprikas)

or any other.

I don´t know if it has to do with the milk or not but after about 3-4 days the vinegar taste was quiet strong.

Maybe the Goats milk would cancel out the vinegar taste I don´t know, maybe it would have tasted different with

just Lemon juice? Other Cheese is made with Renet but the process is longer as far as I know.

Sometime in the future I´ll give it a try but for the first I wanted something quick to try.

I would be interested in your thoughts or if you try it and did you improve on the recepie.