[Sca-cooks] Uses for Whey?

[Johnna Holloway]

Bear provides a good overview. Besides being drunk as a beverage, whey was also used in various medicinal recipes and cures.
As to pickling with it, a number of modern blogs suggest 'don't do it!' Or don't bother.
http://www.picklemetoo.com/2012/07/26/no-whey-no-way/
Some uses here-
http://snip.ly/M3Il#http://www.theprairiehomestead.com/2011/06/16-ways-to-use-your-whey.html
http://www.cheesemaking.com/Whey1.html

Johnnae
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> On Nov 10, 2015, at 9:01 PM, Alec Story <avs38 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> My motivation for this is mundane, but I'm curious about period answers.
> I make cheese, and a by-product is a LOT of whey.  You get something like 3
> quarts of it per pound of cheese.
> I'm looking for a use for it that isn't boiling it down to make brunost
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunost>, and isn't using it as soup stock.
> I've heard that in period Iceland they pickled vegetables and meat in it,
> but since pickling is a little dangerous microbially if you do it wrong,
> I'd love to hear from other people who have done something similar.
> Have you pickled using whey?  Have you found a better way to get rid of the
> stuff? 
> Þórfinnr Hróðgeirsson
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