25 Appalachian Buttermilk & Cheese Secrets Grandma Never Wrote Down

🔗 Appalachian Buttermilk & Cheese: The Complete Field Guide — Free Download: [link] Every method in this video written out in full with temperatures, ratios, and the exact sequence she used. Most people get back more than the cost from the first batch they do right. She never bought a dairy product in her life except salt. Not butter, not cream, not cheese, not the buttermilk that went into her biscuits every morning. She ran a continuous culture for fifty years that came from her mother's culture, which came from hers before that. When I set a jar of milk on the windowsill four days ago and watched what happened to it, I was watching the same process — the same bacteria, effectively, doing the same work they have been doing in that kitchen for three generations. Twenty-five secrets in this video. Number fifteen has a plant in it that most people pull from their garden as a weed, and it will set a gallon of milk without any help from a catalog. Number nine has a number in it — fourteen pounds — and I am going to tell you what Ruth put on top of her cheese to get there. And number one is not a recipe at all. It is the thing she was actually doing when she taught me. CHAPTERS: 00:00 Introduction 01:10 #25 — What They're Selling You 02:06 #24 — What Clabber Is 03:02 #23 — Setting the Clabber 03:58 #22 — Reading the Clabber 04:54 #21 — Cream Rising 05:50 #20 — Churning Butter 06:48 #19 — Washing the Butter 07:44 #18 — Salting and Packing 08:40 #17 — Real Buttermilk in Biscuits 09:36 #16 — Real Buttermilk as a Marinade 10:32 #15 — Plant-Based Rennet 11:30 #14 — Rennet Temperature 12:26 #13 — Preparing the Milk 13:22 #12 — Cutting the Curd 14:18 #11 — Scalding the Curd 15:14 #10 — Draining Whey 16:10 #9 — Pressing Cheese — The Fourteen-Pound Rule 17:08 #8 — Salting Cheese 18:04 #7 — Cloth-Wrapping 19:00 #6 — Spring House Storage 19:56 #5 — Cream Cheese from Clabber 20:52 #4 — Whey 21:48 #3 — When It Has Gone Wrong 22:44 #2 — When the Starter Fails 23:40 #1 — What She Was Actually Doing 25:15 Final Reflection 26:10 Next Video Preview The dairy methods in this video are presented for historical and educational purposes. Some traditional techniques involve raw milk and unpasteurized products. Know the food safety regulations in your area and consult current guidance before practicing home cheesemaking. Traditional Appalachian foodways and home dairy knowledge. Subscribe for new videos every week.