Thursday, November 28, 2013

Butter

Yesterday I made my first cow's milk butter.  It has taken me about a week and a half to turn Raisa into a real milk cow.  Actually, she and I worked at it together.  We're a team now.  The last 3 mornings she's been an angel and I've been able to milk her in her stanchion while she stood very still and enjoyed her breakfast.  Not one stomping foot.  This is a big change from about 5 days ago when I ended up lying on my back looking at the underside of a red, furry 600lbs that could flatten me.

Her milk is so much yellower than goats' milk and it took me a while to get used to that.  I got about 2/3 of a quart of cream from 1 1/2 gallons of milk by skimming off what had risen to the top.  It will be fun to see how much cream we get when we use a cream separator.   I also made some string cheese with the milk I had removed the cream from. 



 

5 comments:

  1. We are loving the post on Possum Hollow!!! Happy Thanksgiving!! You and Raisa are surely a team.

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  2. Not one word about how delicious it was? You left me drooling....

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  3. Yum yum! So glad you are a team now! Phyllis

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  4. I could swear I read something about a post every day for 30 days...I'm waaiittiinngg.....

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  5. Ok, I didn't quite make it. I did 22 consecutive days and a total of 30 posts in 35 days. I'm still waiting on your blog to get moving, Thom.

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