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Title: Semi-Lactic Cow Gc & Pc Cheeses Make
Post by: Cheese Head on November 05, 2011, 12:21:26 PM
Started making a batch of small semi-lactic cheeses with Gc & Pc, records and pictures below, advice appreciated.
Nov 4, 2011
Nov 5, 2011
Nov 6, 2011
Nov 7, 2011
Nov 12, 2011
Title: Re: Semi-Lactic Cow Gc & Pc Cheeses Make
Post by: Cheese Head on November 05, 2011, 07:03:23 PM
Pictures #2
Title: Re: Semi-Lactic Cow Gc & Pc Cheeses Make
Post by: Cheese Head on November 06, 2011, 01:11:57 PM
Cheeses draining slowly, still very moist, sticky, and thus messy.
Title: Re: Semi-Lactic Cow Gc & Pc Cheeses Make
Post by: Cheese Head on November 22, 2011, 12:25:12 AM
Cheeses ripening, some dried out OK, others tooo moist, realized I forgot to dry salt - doh!
Title: Re: Semi-Lactic Cow Gc & Pc Cheeses Make
Post by: Cheese Head on December 24, 2011, 02:24:35 PM
Left town for two weeks so the remaining small cheeses got no attention, no turning, no humidity control.

Ate one small thin disk today, dried out but still good, way better than previous in picture above at 18 days!
Title: Re: Semi-Lactic Cow Gc & Pc Cheeses Make
Post by: Cheese Head on December 24, 2011, 02:27:04 PM
Ate another one today, also a small round disk but less dried out as in different ripening box in cheese cave fridge, beautifully runny!

To be fair, the ones with the semi-dried ginger didn't have a lot of ginger flavour or texture difference as the cheese flavour overpowered the ginger and the chunks of semi dried ginger softened in the moist cheeses.
Title: Re: Semi-Lactic Cow Gc & Pc Cheeses Make
Post by: Cheese Head on December 24, 2011, 02:32:50 PM
Ate 3 today with friend (along with some homemade beer):
1) Small disk in background of first picture was very dried out.
2) Last pyramid shape was beautifully gooey.
3) Small round disk was almost too gooey.
Title: Re: Semi-Lactic Cow Gc & Pc Cheeses Make
Post by: ayu.rosalie on October 30, 2012, 06:59:59 AM
Hi John,

Is this cheese similar to your semi-lactic #1 recipe (but with the GC and PC addition)?
 http://cheeseforum.org/forum/index.php/topic,2071.0.html, (http://cheeseforum.org/forum/index.php/topic,2071.0.html,)
On that one you hang the curd on butter muslin before putting it on the mold.

I made lactic cheese last week but turn out to be a disaster. I'll make another batch this week, hopefully it turns out as good as yours.

Ayu



Title: Re: Semi-Lactic Cow Gc & Pc Cheeses Make
Post by: Tiarella on January 02, 2013, 10:44:49 PM
Hi John,

Thanks for such a great pictoral sharing of your make!  It was funny to see the beginning photos because I think I have all the same molds as you so it looked very much like one of my soft cheese makes.   :D  I'll try aging some of mine out and see what happens....have a lot of Valencay style and some Chaource for experiments with longer aging.