[Cheese] making goat milk cheese?

[Barbara Cornelius]

   I'm sorry, but this is just not true. Usually goat milk has a  
little *more* fat than cow milk; 10 grams of fat per 8oz goat milk  
compared to 8 to 9 grams of fat for the same amount of cow milk.

   For more information about that, see this website:  
http://fiascofarm.com/dairy/goatmilk-breakdown.html

   Fias Co Farm's website is also a good place to find out about  
making soft and hard goat cheeses.

   There are many, many traditional hard cheeses made from goat milk.  
They are no more difficult than cow milk cheeses, but you do need to  
adjust your 'cooking' temperatures down somewhat, and use differing  
amounts of rennet. It all depends on what sort of cheese you ware  
wanting to make.

   I have found a great resource of information and help to be this  
Yahoo group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GoatCheesePlus/

   It's made up of dairy owners, goat cheese makers, beginning and  
advanced. I think you'll find it useful.

   I hope this helps!

   Barbara

Quoting Jack Schmidling <arf at mc.net>:

> Barbara Witt wrote:
>> Where can I find information on making goat milk cheese?
>
> There really is little difference in the process but goat milk usually
> has less fat so hard cheeses do not generally work out as well.
> However, it is easy to correct this problem if you add extra cream to
> the milk.
>
> This doesn't help much is you raise only goats and want to be self
> sufficient but life is not fair.
>
> js
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