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Marie · Joined: 10 Jul 2009 Posts: 43 Location: Galway

Any ideas? We make cheese and the dogs are getting sick of having so much of it. The chickens appreciate it in small quantites but 6 litres a day takes effort to use.
Any good recipes for ice cream or cheese? Any body make butter from it?
Marie

wayland · Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 1171 Location: Campile. Wexford

Last year we kept goats for meat, and very good it is to. This year we want to get into milk and associated products. So I may need some advice from your good self. As far as surplus milk and way etc I would recommend keeping a pig or two. The best of both worlds me think.
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Marie · Joined: 10 Jul 2009 Posts: 43 Location: Galway

We were thinking the same thing and have applied for a pig no. i have tried ice cream several times and failure! i really think you need to use cream not milk and thickeners. I am excellant at making yogurt and feta like cheese but hope to master hard cheese over the next few months and will even try making some goat milk and honey soap.
I'll let you know how i get on

chook · Joined: 14 Mar 2007 Posts: 305 Location: North Clare

Hi Marie,
I have never made it myself but I had goat butter once - a family in the Burren made it many moons ago - it was delicious! Pure white too.
Selling milk products is a pain in the proverbial with all the regulations but perhaps it would make a nice and unusual product for barter and you'd still have the valuable buttermilk for poultry and pigs.
As to goat's milk soap: you can only fit about 300ml into 10 * 100g bars of soap so that won't really help reducing your surplus...

To use up [very fresh] goats' soft cheese: I found a recipe for a 'base-less' cheesecake which uses up 1000g of the stuff and 6 eggs in one cake! Perfect for chicken & dairy goat keepers suffering from surpluses Laughing

And it's delicious too.
Can dig out the recipe if you like.

chook

Marie · Joined: 10 Jul 2009 Posts: 43 Location: Galway

Chook,
I'd love that recipe, my husband loves cheesecake and what a way to use up the milk & eggs, we plan to get pigs so they'll be a great way to use surplus, i must say im getting sick off having of having to give away produce when people dont appreciate that labour etc gone into it.
thanks

chook · Joined: 14 Mar 2007 Posts: 305 Location: North Clare

Cheesecake without base

125 g Butter (warm/soft)
150 g Sugar
6 Eggs
10g (2 level teaspoons) Baking powder
a little vanilla extract or real vanilla
2 Tbsp Rum or rum aroma (optional)
2 Tbsp lemon juice (I also add the grated lemon rind for a bit more 'zing')
1000g "quark" which I substitute with the goats' soft cheese
6 Tbsp dessicated coconut or semolina

Grease a 10 inch round cake tin and dust with the coconut or semolina.
Mix all other ingredients well (does not matter what order), fill into the tin and bake in a pre-heated oven at 200°C for about 50 minutes. Then turn off the oven and let the cake cool in the closed oven.

A variation is to add a handful of raisins or sultanas to the dough.

Enjoy

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Marie · Joined: 10 Jul 2009 Posts: 43 Location: Galway

I havent had a chance to try this yet, but its written into my recipe book. We since got pigs and they well sorted out any over supply problems Very Happy

My sons 1st birthday is next week, i might try this instead of sponge cake for a change, although i'll admit i'd have to buy the cheese, either that or get another goat Laughing