Farmer's Cheese or Ricotta

Name: Farmer's Cheese or Ricotta
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 1 gallon whole milk; 0.25 cup lemon juice

20m

Serves 4

20m

Serves 4

Directions

1Pour the milk into a big pot.
2Heat the milk on medium to low heat until it reaches 200 degrees, stirring often to prevent burning.
3Add a fourth of a cup of lemon juice to the milk.
4Mix the milk and lemon juice until it starts to curdle.
5Remove from heat, cover, and let sit until fully curdled.
6Strain the curdled milk using a strainer lined with a cloth napkin over a bowl to catch the liquid.
7Help the liquid go through by gently stirring with a spoon.
8Scoop out the cheese curds with a slotted spatula.
9Wrap the cheese curds in the cloth napkin and tie it up.
10Hang the tied napkin to allow the remaining liquid to drip out.
11Once cool enough to handle, squeeze out excess liquid.
12For cream cheese, blend half of the farmer's cheese.
13Mix blackberries into the blended cream cheese to make blackberry cream cheese.

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20m

Serves 4

20m

Serves 4

1Pour the milk into a big pot.
2Heat the milk on medium to low heat until it reaches 200 degrees, stirring often to prevent burning.
3Add a fourth of a cup of lemon juice to the milk.
4Mix the milk and lemon juice until it starts to curdle.
5Remove from heat, cover, and let sit until fully curdled.
6Strain the curdled milk using a strainer lined with a cloth napkin over a bowl to catch the liquid.
7Help the liquid go through by gently stirring with a spoon.
8Scoop out the cheese curds with a slotted spatula.
9Wrap the cheese curds in the cloth napkin and tie it up.
10Hang the tied napkin to allow the remaining liquid to drip out.
11Once cool enough to handle, squeeze out excess liquid.
12For cream cheese, blend half of the farmer's cheese.
13Mix blackberries into the blended cream cheese to make blackberry cream cheese.