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RE: [Recipes] Medicinal Cooking - Diets For Ailments & Disease - Probiotics & Gut Health
Such a fabulous post @porters! I love it! Yay for the salt flush, all the amazing fermented and gut restoring recipes. I'm going to try lemon and ginger water kefir. I always make mine with whichever seasonal fruit we have going
Hey! @buckaroo! I love the different flavors you can have with the water kefir and lemon ginger I find so refreshing and good for the digestive system. Another good one is one I made with the bog cranberries that grow around here. Do you make the yogurts and kefirs with your goat milk? I use to get some goat milk from my friend and made kefir then made the cottage cheese that was really simple to do. Basically you make your kefir like usual, separate the grains then let it sit out at room temperature for 48 hour to let the curds separate out. Strain the kefir through some cheese cloth, squeezing out the excess liquid (whey). Take out the curds and Vahlah! You have cottage cheese. I use to let my kefir curds naturally drain out by hanging it over a bowl in our cool root cellar for 12 to 24 hours. You could take this a bit further to make simple hard cheeses. Once it stopped dripping you wrap it in the cheese cloth or towel and place it in a colander. Set a plate on top of the cheese and put a weight on it like a tin can or a rock. Every few hours you would increase the weight until the dripping stops - there you have your hard cheese which tends to be a bit crumbly.
Such great tips @porters! Thanks. My introduction to cheese making with my goats milk was the real peasant style, just add lemon to fresh milk. Then I progressed to Heirloom yoghurt and kefir but the business grew so big that I now use rennets and cultures. But I must admit I far prefer these rustic methods to the sophisticated style. I'm going to try a hard kefir cheese following your directions. Thank you so much
You're welcome. Let me know how it goes. When I had access to lots of goat milk and making the cheese I had dug up some wonderful recipes for all different types of hard cheeses. It's wonderful what you can do with kefir cheeses.