SC - Knives-gender

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Might also want to try a "farmer's market", if one exists near you.
Ania
At 10:43 PM 10/24/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Ron and Laurene Wells wrote:
>
>> I would especially like to make my own cheese!  But HOW IN AMERICA (I'm
>> certian it's possible in other partes of Earth) do I find NON-Homogenized
>> milk?  The dairy farmers won't sell it to people because of the law that -
>> well - says they can't!  I don't know anyone with a "pet" cow or goats or
>> whatever.  How do I find it?  I know it has to be pasteurized - that just
>> involves cooking the milk to kill bacteria.  But homogenization involves
>> adding fermaldehyde to the milk to prevent the cream from separating.  My
>> parents in Idaho know a rancher who sells milk "for animals" that hasn't
>> been homogenized, but that doesn't help me much here in Oregon.
>
>I don't know whether the problem is any different in Oregon that what I
>have to deal with, but many farmers' markets, healthfood stores, and
>some supermarkets sell unhomogenized milk where I live, usually in the
>old-fashioned glass bottles.
>
>It is quite possible, though, to make a decent cheese with homogenized
>milk. Before I am drowned out by the protestations of purists, I will
>say that the finished product is not exactly the same as when made with
>unhomogenized milk, but it is acceptable and often quite good. The
>problem with unhomogenized milk is that the butterfat has been
>emulsified into the  milk, acting as a shortening: the fat shortens the
>protein strands, just as it would with dough, affecting the soldity of
>the final product, in this case the curds. When you go to buy your
>rennet, though, you should be able to get some calcium chloride suitable
>for cheesemaking: it is used to counteract the effects of homogenization
>and de-emulsify the milk, rendering the final product almost identical
>to that made with unhomogenized milk. You only need a tiny bit, and if I
>remember correctly, most of it is drained away with the whey.
>
>Adamantius 
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