SC - Cheesy Question

[Alderton, Philippa]

Frederich:

Just south of you there are any number of cheese factories in Amish country,
particularly in Holmes, Wayne and Tuscarawas counties. This might be a good
place to start. Avoid the touristy stuff in Sugar Creek and a few other
towns- they're fairly obvious with their huge signs mentioning "REAL AMISH
COOKING!!!" and the like. One of my favorites is a small factory in
Coshocton County, just south of Baltic, on SR 93. It sells very good cheese
at ridiculously low prices (I have it notebooked in my head, if I ever do a
feast), and has glass windows looking into the factory itself so you can
watch what they're doing.

Most of the factories are very people friendly, particularly if you come
wanting to learn. I remember several years ago, I was waiting at one of them
for one of their drivers to come in (I had to renew his insurance) and,
since it was likely to be a long wait, the manager took me through and gave
me a complete tour of the facility- fascinating!

Possibly we could work out a time to meet and go for a grand tour? If you're
really interested, calling the local Chambers of Commerce might give you
some leads to factories you could then call and ask for tours.

As far as milking sheep or any other animal, first it helps if you know how
to milk ;-) There aren't any of the cups for the teats of goats and sheep
like there are for cows, that I am aware of, so you'll need to milk by hand,
which is VERY hard on your hands, while you're learning, and you'd need to
do this on a sheep or goat which has A: been trained for it, just like is
done with cows, and B: has no offspring to feed, because every last one of
them is perfectly capable of withholding their milk at will. You'd have to
consider, too, that you'd have to milk the animals regularly, twice a day,
or their milk will dry up. This might be a project you could pay a young
Amish boy to do for you next spring.

Hope this helps a bit.

Phlip

Nolo disputare, volo somniare et contendere, et iterum somniare.

phlip at morganco.net

Philippa Farrour
Caer Frig
Southeastern Ohio

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So many paths that wind and wind,
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