What a month we've had! We recently moved to a farm and it's been such a great experience so far. There is so much to get used to, but I especially enjoy the peace and quite. The sunsets are so colorful and absolutely beautiful with purple, blue, red, orange, yellow.... It's breath taking. We have a great view from our kitchen window and every now and then the giraffes comes to say hello and it's amazing.
The first two week we were here, it was raining non stop. We really could not do much but even the rainy days are perfect and beautiful.
There is so much more to show, but I'll leave that for my next post!
Just after we got here, the owner bought 5 Jersey cows. Just for fun we decided to name them. Their names are Pamela, Blossom, Daisy, Parmalat and Belle. So the first thing I learned to do here is how to milk a cow by hand and machine. The kids love it and before we knew it, even the guests on the farm joined in to milk the cows. It's a great farm experience and a nice add on since this is a guest farm.
Just as my youngest son was about to squeeze some milk right into his mouth, the cow pooped..... He now refuses to drink cows milk and he only wants normal milk, Hahaha!
So, we now have an abundance of milk and we desperately need to do something with it!
The first thing I learned to do, is to make butter. It really isn't that difficult. Here's how:
- I let the buckets of milk chill in the refrigerator over night.
- once the cream and milk has separated, I carefully scoop off all off the cream
- Put the milk in your blender and use and beat until it's whipped cream
- Make yourself an Ice coffee with milk, ice, sugar and whipped cream ;)
- Carry on beating the whipped cream until it separates and slow down your blender or your kitchen will be covered in butter!
- Strain the butter. The liquid is buttermilk, store that separately.
- Then take your ball off butter in your hands and squeeze it to remove all the excess buttermilk
- Rinse under cold water to make sure all the buttermilk is gone and whala! You have butter!
I add salt after this process because the first time round I was stuck with a lot of very salty buttermilk... Not nice.
Every 500ml of cream yields about 120-130gm of butter.
Please share some recipes and techniques with me. What to do when you have too much milk?!
I also learned to make ice cream, cream cheese and yogurt! Next up is mozzarella, condensed milk and Feta. More on that and this beautiful Guest Farm with my next post :)
Thanks for reading!