My First Blue
This has been a thing of terror and sleepless nights for a while and I am hoping that the Blue experts within these hallowed pages can provide a soft fall. Well . ... that's probably a little dramatic, but there is a little trepidation in this ..
Recipe:
8 litres (7 Melany milk and 1 litre of cream)
Flora Danica for 8/10 litres
P Roqueforti
1/4 tsp CaCl2
2 mls ¼ tsp rennet (200 ICMU)
This is the first blue I’ve tried and the first question I had was the amount of PR I was using. A quick call to the Supplier – Green Living Australia – where Valerie said that the amount to use was very very small as it a very aggressive mould and therefore the amount used was the tip of steak knife – not a lot at all.
9:30 Heated the Milk to 27 Deg C.
Added the 1 Dash of Flora Danica and the PR. Continued to Heat the milk to the target Temperature 32 Deg C.
9:45 32 Deg C reached. Added CaCl2 diluted in ¼ cup of non-chlorinated water
Ripen for 30 minutes.
10:22 Added 2 mls of Rennet diluted in ¼ cup of non-chlorinated water.
Floc of 15:30 In the book I’m using they say a Floc factor of 2 but I believe that the Floc factor should be 5.0 to 6 Therefore from 77 minutes to 92 minutes.
Cut time then 11:40… Keeping @ 32 Deg C.
Keeping my fingers crossed..
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