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How to make Dead Cow Cheese

Dead Cow Cheese

Dead Cow Cheese

How to make Dead Cow Cheese

Dead cow cheese. Tuesday 5th September 2011, Recipe 20110905

How to make Dead Cow cheese– an introduction

I have been experimenting with different cheese making techniques in an attempt at making a unique cheese that is wonderful – never mind trying out the standard tried and true techniques. In my research on cheese making I found out that alcohol will curdle cheese without the loss of calcium. Acid based curdling releases a lot of the calcium from the milk into the whey hence cheese makers add back the calcium in the form of calcium salts. (I just cannot find the articles, just now. when I do I will put them here)

I did not fancy driving down the KESAS highway towards Klang to get some expensive (heavily taxed) ethanol for this experiment hence I decided to use yeast to generate the alcohol within the milk. The process is simple enough but very risky and dangerous. Below is the process I tried and I wouldn’t recommend that you try this as the by-products of yeast fermentation if done incorrectly can lead to blindness and death, due to methanol formation. … Continue reading “How to make Dead Cow Cheese »

By Peter Achutha, on September 15th, 2011 | Category: cheese | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

How to make homemade cream cheese from yogurt part 4

Cream Cheese

Cream Cheese

How to make homemade cream cheese from yogurt part 4

Tuesday 6th September 2011, Recipe 20110906

How to make homemade cream cheese from yogurt– an introduction

The last experiment on yogurt cream cheese based cheesecake was very good creamy cheese. I tried it again with 3% baking soda and found a difference. And then I realised that in the previous experiment the baking soda I had used was very old stock and it was very week. This time around I used 1% baking soda and it was much better. There are other issues but I will discuss them later. … Continue reading “How to make homemade cream cheese from yogurt part 4 »

By Peter Achutha, on September 13th, 2011 | Category: cheese | Comments are closed

How to make homemade cream cheese from yogurt part 3

homemade cheese

homemade cheese

How to make homemade cream cheese from yogurt part 3

Tuesday 9th August 2011, Recipe 20110809

How to make homemade cream cheese from yogurt– an introduction

The last experiment for cream cheese on cheesecake was very sour and this time around I focused on the cheese making process. I believe I had solved most of the problems caused by the sour flavour. And you are lucky that I delay publishing this recipe by three days. On the day I made the cream cheese from yogurt, the taste was OK and at least it was not extremely sour. I did make it into a cheese cake and ate a sliced or two every day. Wonder of wonders, I found that the taste improved by the third day and it tasted like cream cheese. This is the first time I had seen, with my own eyes, homemade cheese ripen or mature and it did taste pretty good. In fact those who tasted it thought I had used store bought cream cheese until explained that it was made from yogurt. Even then, they thought that I had added yogurt into store bought cream cheese. … Continue reading “How to make homemade cream cheese from yogurt part 3 »

By Peter Achutha, on August 12th, 2011 | Category: cheese, cheesecake | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)

How to make cheesecake with homemade yogurt cheese part 2

homemade cheese

homemade cheese

How to make cheesecake with homemade yogurt cheese part 2

Wednesday 22th July 2011, Recipe 20110722

How to make cheesecake with homemade yogurt cheese – an introduction

The last experiment on cheesecake (see previous cheesecake recipe) went very wrong but it was a good experiment it that I accidentally made a nice salad sauce from the yogurt cheese. This time around I tried extra water in the dough and baked at a lower temperature and after a second bake (What you did a second bake? … Yes… because I was trying to recover from another disaster) the pastry was quite edible. The cheese for the yogurt was better in that it did not flow out when the cheesecake was sliced. At least that problem solved! … Continue reading “How to make cheesecake with homemade yogurt cheese part 2 »

By Peter Achutha, on July 26th, 2011 | Category: cheese, cheesecake, Food | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)

How to make cheesecake with homemade yogurt cheese

homemade cheese

homemade cheese

How to make cheesecake with homemade yogurt cheese

Wednesday 20th July 2011, Recipe 20110720

How to make cheesecake with homemade yogurt cheese – an introduction

I was looking at the pizza dough (see how to make homemade pizza bread with yeast ) and wondered if it could be converted to a pastry crust recipe then I thought that if I could convert it into a pastry and what should I do with the excess pastry dough? Furthermore, I had to make an interesting filling for the pastry. I had tried my hand at Indian Paneer (see how to make cheese indian paneer ) which is a very basic cheese and now wondered if I could improve on that too. So you are in luck today as I have several products in one article and you will learn how to make the worst cheesecake in the world – we learn from our mistakes. … Continue reading “How to make cheesecake with homemade yogurt cheese »

By Peter Achutha, on July 21st, 2011 | Category: cheese, cheesecake, Food | 11 comments - (Comments are closed)

how to make cheese – Indian Paneer

Cheese Indian Paneer

Cheese Indian Paneer

Indian Cheese – Paneer and other experiments

 

This is a log of my trials and tribulations at cheese making. Looking back I really wonder what got into me to start cheese making. I guess I love the flavour of genuine cheese and considering the price of cheese in Malaysia which is about RM50 (USD$16/-) to RM150 (USD$48/-) per kg and that is way too expensive for the average Malaysia to afford eating it every day. … Continue reading “how to make cheese – Indian Paneer »

By Peter Achutha, on April 30th, 2011 | Category: cheese | 19 comments - (Comments are closed)