[S] Re: Help me

[Guest guest]

Donna,

I tried the tea jar with the spigot. How do you get the spigot clean?

I took the thing apart in an effort to get the gunk out and it fell

apart never to be whole again.

Belinda

> > Re: Help me

> > Importance: Low

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> >

> > Maxine,

> > I use the sun tea jars (nothing but a gallon lidded jar with a

> > push spigot on side) as cream seperator. I milk, strain into the

> > jars, set jars in ice water to chill for at least an hour, then

> set

> > jar in the refrigerator. You do have to watch out for the cheaper

> > jars leaking at the spout. After 12 to 24 hours, I drain the skim

> > milk off the bottom and what's left is the cream. I make butter

> and

> > freeze extra or make ghee. The skim milk I use to make cottage

> > cheese, cultured buttermilk, feta cheese.

> > If you can't find the sun tea jars, you can also just put the

> > milk in a wide mouth gallon pickle jar (watch out though as

> pickle jar

> > lids don't fit tight enough to prevent leak if jar overturns) and

> let

> > it set over night in the refrigerator. Then, I take a soup dipper

> and

> > gently lower it into the cream layer and let it fill the dipper.

> If

> > you are careful, you can pretty much get all the cream off in

> just a

> > few minutes.

> > Ricki Carroll's book, Cheesemaking Made Easy is very good for

> > beginner. There is also a good butter/ghee book that one of the

> > dairies puts out and I have found useful. Dairy Connection is your

> > best place to buy cultures and rennet IMVHO. Kathy is great to

> talk

> > to and guide you if you are newbie.

> > Since I drown in goats milk pretty much ten months out of the

> > year, that's what we drink. The cow's milk I use for cheese,

> butter,

> > ghee, but we don't drink it much at all, it's just not a good

> tasting

> > as the goat milk.

> > Donna

> > Safehaven Nubians

> > Dandridge, TN

> >

> > >

> > > I went and bought a jersey...know I have milk crowding out the

> food

> > in

> > > the fridge. I live in Monroe county in the state of ohio which

> is

> > the

> > > southeastern part. Any takers? Maxine

> > >

> >

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