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Does anyone know of any online sites with simple recipes or instructions for some basic cheeses? I have heard ricotta can be made by just adding lemon or vineg

• lagniappe 3y ago
  I make it all the time. Here's my recipe, it's foolproof. - 1 gallon whole milk, 1 liter heavy cream. - Heat to 180F while stirring - Add half a cup of vinegar and stir thoroughly for a minute or two Then you just wait until it's cooled enough to pick up and pour through some cloth. After that I salt, add garlic, chopped herb, anything will do. One tip I can offer is to jar it up before it gets cold so it is easier to get in the jar without air pockets. Lasts in the fridge for a few weeks, freezes fine.
• woolion 3y ago
  Look up how to do mozzarella on Youtube (first result is a decent introduction). After you do a batch the milk will still contain a lot of stuff. You can then add 20% of this quantity of milk to that, and re-heat to make ricotta (which literally means re-cooked). (Of course you can make ricotta directly from milk. On the other hand, not adding back some milk makes it difficult to get a good result.) Look up a basic mozzarella making kit if you need the tools, but basically some cheese cloth and a thermometer are the only thing you might not have in a standard kitchen. The most complicated might be to get some real milk (raw) for best results; if you don't, depending on the pasteurization process you might need to fortify the milk with calcium chloride. I've eaten a lot of Italian industrial ricotta and the home-made stuff is just entirely on another level.