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The Home Creamery
Make Your Own Fresh Dairy Products
Easy Recipes for Butter, Yogurt, Sour Cream,
Crème Fraiche, Cream Cheese, Ricotta, and More!
by Kathy Farrell Kingsley

Softcover book, 214 pages

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When I saw this cookbook on the bookshelf, I immediately snatched it up and said “that’s for me!” I’m not the only one: I took the book to work to read during lunch, and ended up loaning it to a co-worker (who promptly bought her own copy). I’ve always been interested in charcuterie, home made dairy products and cheese making, but thought it would be too hard or time consuming to do at home. I was wrong! You can make your own butter, sour cream, cream cheese, ricotta, yogurt and crème fraîche without lots of specialty ingredients, without having to buy a lot of extra kitchen equipment, and without spending all your free time to do it.

You can make home made butter in a food processor, a blender, or your Kitchen Aid standing mixer in less than twenty minutes! And if you follow the step to remove the milk solids, not only will the butter remain fresh longer, you will automatically have CLARIFIED butter (no more paying premium prices for clarified butter, no more having to melt the butter to try to spoon out the milk solids from the bottom.) If you have children who want to help you with your baking, you can even let THEM make the butter in a sealed glass jar by letting them shake it for you. Making Christmas butter cookies will be extra special for your kids when they get to not only help you make the cookies, but help you make the special ingredient! (And maybe you can even get them to eat a few more vegetables if you put a little of the butter they made on them!)

The Home Creamery is intended to be an introduction to making your own butter, sour cream, creme fraiche, and soft cheeses. It contains the basic information to get you started: if you are looking for detailed scientific explanations, if you’re looking for a cheesemaking textbook, or if you want to make hard cheeses like cheddar or parmesan, this isn’t the right cookbook for you. If you’re like me, and just starting on making your own dairy products, and you want a quick and simple methods that don’t require a lot of ingredients, specialty equipment and time, then its a good choice for you. If you want to make a holiday dinner or special meal a little bit extra special with homemade butter or sour cream, if you want to make your famous apple pie a little more famous with homemade creme fraiche, if you want to make that special Italian recipe that much more fabulous with homemade ricotta or mozarella, or you want to make your favorite Tiramisu recipe with freshly made mascarpone to impress your Valentine, this is also a great choice for you.

Cultured Dairy Products Recipes

The Introduction, Setting up Your Home Creamery, covers ingredients, equipment, the basic steps, and tips for success.

Part One: Cultured Dairy Products Recipes

Cultured Dairy Products recipes include homemade yogurt, yogurt cheese, homemade kefir, homemade butter(two methods), piima butter, buttermilk(two methods), buttermilk pot cheese, homemade crème fraîche, buttermilk quark, and homemade sour cream (two methods).

Part Two: Soft Unripened Cheeses Recipes

Soft Unripened Cheeses recipes include homemade cream cheese, large curd cottage cheese, farmers cheese, homemade ricotta(two methods), homemade goat cheese, herbed goat cheese, goat’s milk feta cheese, homemade mozzarella, microwaved mozzarella, and mascarpone.

Part Three: Recipes from the Home Creamery

Coffee And…

Breakfast recipes include lemon scones, the best buttermilk pancakes, pumpkin spice muffins, pumpkin Apple muffins, pumpkin muffins, pumpkin praline muffins, cheese blintzes, spice swirled coffeecake, Apple coffeecake with caramel glaze, cornmeal waffles with peaches and mascarpone topping, vanilla waffles, Nila pancakes, banana blueberry muffins, and fresh fruit smoothie (with mango ginger, Apple berry, and tropical morning variations).

No Forks Required

Forkless recipes include chutney cheese spread, herbed goat cheese bites, olive and cream cheese toasts, warm crab dip, spinach artichoke dip, curried yogurt dip, zucchini triangles, focaccia with caramelized onions and goat cheese, black tie potatoes, wasabi rice crackers, marinated feta, and mascarpone stuffed dates.

Not Just for Lunch

Recipes include swiss chard and ricotta calzones, pizza Margherita, mozzarella panini, grilled cheese with figs, lentil salad with feta, Apple Waldorf salad, Moroccan chickpea salad, mushroom bisque, creamy broccoli cauliflower soup, chilled pea soup, and potato pancakes with goat cheese.

The Main Event

Main dish recipes include spinach lasagna roll ups, broccoli stuffed shells, penne with herbed goat cheese and tomatoes, cheesy chicken pasta, egg plant rollatini, spinach ricotta pie, eggplant Parmesan, a plant Parmesan heroes, grilled steaks with flavored butters, beef stroganoff, crabcakes with horseradish cream, broccoli rabe and ricotta frittata, chicken enchiladas, crispy buttermilk chicken, chicken curry with yogurt, and easy chiles rellenos.

Super Sides

Side dish recipes include garlicky smashed potatoes, creamy Parmesan pepper dressing, green salad with fresh herb dressing, spinach salad with herbed goat cheese, coleslaw with buttermilk dressing, tomato mozzarella salad, beet salad with goat cheese and bacon, buttermilk onion rain, tomato gratin, cornmeal biscuits, and twisted whey wheat rolls.

Desserts Galore

Dessert recipes include chocolate buttermilk layer cake, chocolate sour cream cake, orange cream cheese poundcake, spice cake with pecan frosting, fudge swirl cappuccino cheesecake, pumpkin cheesecake with sour cream topping, no bake lemon raspberry cheesecake, Italian ricotta Tart, cherry cheese tart, tiramisu, sour cream raisin pie, ricotta pudding with nuts and chocolate, coffee mascarpone, cream cheese brownies, brownie shortbread, pecan swirls, coeur a la creme, poached pears and ricotta, peach Melba yogurt parfaits, and tropical frappe.