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Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall recipes Hugh and Oscar's goat's cheese recipe

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Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Date Published:
11/06/2009

Where do you get the yummiest goat's cheese? Make it yourself of course. Hugh shows you how on River Cottage

Watch the video of the River Cottage team making goat's cheese

Makes 2 x 500g cheeses

Ingredients

  • 1.7l fresh goat's milk
  • 10 drops vegetarian rennet (or follow the packet instructions)

Method: How to make Hugh and Oscar's goat's cheese

1. Put the milk in a saucepan and heat gently until it reaches 37°C (blood temperature). If you don't have a cook's thermometer, dip your finger into the milk. When you can't feel the liquid - i.e., it is neither hotter nor colder than your hand - you'll know it's at blood temperature.

2. Take the pan off the heat and add the vegetarian rennet. Give it a quick stir then leave the curds and whey to separate (about 15 minutes). Use a sharp knife to cut the curd into small chunks (about 2.5cm) in the pan.

3. Line two sieves (or one very large one) with two layers of fine, untreated muslin. Place each sieve over a bowl. Spoon the cut curds and whey into the muslin. Gather up the corners of the muslin and tie them with string, then suspend the bundles over bowls overnight to allow the whey to drain away, leaving you with lovely, creamy soft cheese.

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  1. My curd hasn't set - what have I done wrong and can I rescue it?
    Posted by SCOFFMEISTER on 11/07/2009 13:45:16
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  2. hi, bought my rennet from ebay, £1.10 for 25ml bottle
    Posted by tonnee on 26/06/2009 17:12:47
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  3. I have tried everywhere to buy vegatarian rennet to enable me to make Hugh and Oscar's goat cheese with absolutely no success. Any suggestions will be great.
    Posted by Maureen Martin on 23/06/2009 16:54:36
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  4. Doh! Used goats milk from tesco.............clearly it had been pasturised & didn't work. (Mental note to self -try not to be a plonker next time) BTW Rennet is available for buttons on ebay - as is the muslin
    Posted by SteveM on 22/06/2009 23:33:35
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  5. This worked perfectly for us with regular full fat cows milk. The bread came out fantastic by using the whey instead of water, yummy! Oh, you can get rennet in the baking section in the supermarket.
    Posted by t&c on 22/06/2009 16:42:28
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  6. I used a litre of goats milk but only got about 250g of cheese. Now I need to make some more so I can make cheesecake.
    Posted by Beth on 21/06/2009 14:22:42
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  7. Made this yesterday, success! - get both animal and cheese rennet and cheesecloth from www.cheesemaking.co.uk. Very reasonable and first class delivery.
    Posted by Jax on 21/06/2009 09:34:40
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  8. I tried this, but substituted with raw jersey cows milk, alas, no cheese just some milk on my roses. What went wrong?
    Posted by TB on 20/06/2009 18:31:10
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  9. Seems like a lot of questions here! Where do I get untreated muslin? Love these recipes, have already started on my sourdough so fingers crossed.
    Posted by Hstring on 20/06/2009 09:36:36
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  10. Just started to dry cure my own bacon(folowing your receipe), will put a update on when complete, but up to press its looking good.
    Posted by mark.g.britton on 19/06/2009 00:26:36
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  11. you can make ricotta cheese from the whey: let the whey sit for a while to turn it more acidic. then heat the whey to 85 C just below boiling. you should see clouds of curd forming. if not, the whey is not acidic enough. add a little vinegar until the clouds form. then strain through a cheese cloth. the ricotta should be slightly dry, but creamy. for a heavier ricotta add some more milk to the whey before resting and heating.
    Posted by dan on 19/06/2009 00:03:54
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  12. where can you buy both vegetarian and ordinary rennet?
    Posted by jo on 18/06/2009 21:22:04
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  13. Anybody know where you can easily buy the vegetarian rennet from? I've had no luck on the web. Thanks
    Posted by Sammy on 18/06/2009 20:46:33
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  14. Can you substitute the goat's milk for cow's? Are there differences in the recipe? Thanks.
    Posted by Foggers on 18/06/2009 09:38:04
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  15. Can you use the Whey for anything - i.e. in cooking or alternatives like can you feed to livestock? Any ideas gratefully received.
    Posted by pattypan2 on 17/06/2009 21:20:01
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