I have raw milk today! I am making a 4 gallon Swiss. What a lovely curd. There are little pieces of yellow fat floating on top. You know that part of the recipe where it always says to stir the curd to keep it from matting? Mine has never wanted to matte before!

I think now that I am in line at the raw milk farm I can get milk every week. I will have to call and remind him on Monday that I am coming by on Thursday, but I think you can reserve for every week and then call if you aren’t coming.

the uncut curd

Stirring the curd

Good luck !!! def will turn out great

I hope so. It has a slight yellow tinge to it, and it smelled wonderful. There were little pieces of yellow fat floating on the top of the whey. My daughter’s weiner dog, Daisy, is circling the table trying to figure out how to get up there.

The Yellow is normal, thats the rich cream, remember butter is yellow. (besides the comp. that add coloring)

I took my cheese out of the press and took a picture of the Swiss made 3 weeks ago with store bought milk, and the raw milk one. The white one is store bought.

The top of the white one has a little mold on it. It appeared during that week that I kept it in the cave. Too much moister in the cave. I don’t understand how to regulate that, so I just dumped out the water that I had in the bottom. It seems to be down inside the rind, and it doesn’t get any worse. When it first appeared I washed it with brine and then I washed it with some vinegar and brine mixture. A lot of it went away, but what is still there remains the same. There are a few dots on the other side too.

The brownish part on the top is because I just turned it over. It’s the moisture that sinks to the bottom every day. The 4 little dents in the top are screw holes from my press. I am going to fix that. They seem to attract mold and then I have to dig it out.

My raw milk one is in the brine now. I am so excited I got up early to take it out of the press!

Looks real good.
Just rub salt on the rind vigorously like sand paper to deal with the mold.

I didn’t know that. I was washing it with salt water. I will do that.

I tried the salt thing and it works great. It took a little scrubbing, but I got one side clean. I will clean the other side tomorrow. I was hoping someone would tell me what to do when I posted my picture.

Salt is one of your best friends, giving surfaces a good salt rub can save allot of grief.
Closeups of the surface helps to see whats going on , other then that, you are the first line of defense