Wednesday's Wonderful Book of the Week - Home Cheese Making

RRP: $24.99, Paperback, 224 pages
ISBN: 9781580174640, Published by Storey

Home Cheese Making
by Ricki Carroll

Widely regarded as the bible of cheese making, Home Cheese Making contains 75 recipes to make your own homemade cheeses.

Among the step-by-step tested recipes for cheese varieties are farmhouse cheddar, gouda, fromage blanc, queso blanco, marscarpone, ricotta and 30-minute mozzarella. 


Recipes for dairy products include creme fraiche, sour cream, yoghurt, keifer, buttermilk and clotted cream. There are also 60 recipes for cooking with cheese including such treats such as Ricotta Pancakes with Banana Pecan Syrup, Cream Cheese Muffins, Broiled Pears and Vermont Shepherd Cheese, Proscuitto and Cheese Calzones and Grilled Vegetable Stacks with Roasted Red Pepper Sauce.


Profiles of home cheese makers and artisan cheese makers scattered throughout the text share the stories of people who love to make and eat good cheese. 


Home Cheese Making is packed full of information on how to enjoy homemade cheeses, how to serve a cheese course at home, cheese tips, lore, quotes, a cheese making glossary and much more.


About the Author - 

Ricki Carroll, widely considered to be the “queen of cheese making,” has owned and operated the New England Cheesemaking Supply Company for 30 years. She originally studied the art of cheese making in England and has passed her knowledge and experience on to hundreds of other cheese makers through her popular workshops. She lives in western Massachusetts.