Where do you get your milk from?

[dansta]

How did the cheese turn out in the end SwiftPint? I'm in London and started making my own cheese about a year ago with mixed success.  I'd be interested to see how your getting on with it.

[Salilah]

More thoughts on milk:

London - Borough Market - raw milk, but it's £3 per litre, which makes it very expensive!

Tesco have their own equivalent of the Jersey Gold top

Waitrose I think ditto - they also do Duchy Organics (think this is homogenised) - also expensive

I tried Daylesford (?) 500ml organic whole milk - plastic bags not cartons - from Waitrose / Ocado - however this try didn't work too well, 2.5L only gave one camembert not two, but it could well have been me!!

Any others?  You can buy raw milk from the farmer's gate (!) but in East Anglia there's not a lot of dairy!

[Dibbs]

I've bought raw milk from the guys who make the excellent Lincolnshire Poacher cheese at a farmers market in Leeds. 

http://www.lincolnshirepoachercheese.com/products/

I see from their web site that they also do a couple of farmers markets in London.  You can pre-order online if you want a lot.  I had a chat to the guy on the stall and he said they have quite a few amateur cheesemakers buy milk from them. 

http://www.lincolnshirepoachercheese.com/markets-and-events/

I think they were charging £1.20 per litre.  Maybe a bit more but certainly nowhere near the Borough Market £3 rip off.

[Salilah]

Thanks for the suggestion!
I'll see which I can get to...
cheers
S

[Dibbs]

Thanks for the suggestion!
I'll see which I can get to...
cheers
S

Get some of their cheese while you're there too.  It's excellent, although the three year old Knuckleduster is not for the faint hearted.  It has the strap line on the label "Go on, if you think you're hard enough" so you can probably imagine.

[Dibbs]

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I think they were charging £1.20 per litre.  Maybe a bit more but certainly nowhere near the Borough Market £3 rip off.

Actually it is £1.40 per litre.  I got some more last weekend.

[klschnepp]

I just posted on this recently, glad to see more cheese people in London!  We are actually pretty darn lucky.  You can get pasteurised, non-homogenised milk at most major grocery stores, just check out the labels carefully.   I used to use Calon Wen a lot (buy from Ocado).  Waitrose has their own brand of this kind of milk (just read labels carefully regarding homog.--some that you might think are not actually are!!).  There is also one at Sainsbury's and even Tesco.   The going rate is about £1/litre.  We don't have the same problems as the USA with ultra high temp pasteurisation being a norm.   

Jersey cows have very high fat content, it is actually too high for the cheese I mainly make!!!   So, just something to keep in mind as you are looking at recipes.

Raw milk is becoming more available and most farmers markets have it.  Hook & Sons is the £3 one.  The rest are usually around £1.50.   

Hope this helps!