The French that took over Nauvoo after the Mormons left were all about wine and cheese. They still make Nauvoo Blue I think. I used to live in Quincy.
Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 12, 2020, at 9:06 PM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > > > We also had Mormons but we weren’t nice to them and they moved farther west. > > Interesting, according to Wikipedia when the Mormons left, they were replaced > by a socialist commune. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauvoo,_Illinois > > Sorry, none of this has anything to do with cheese. > > From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Steve Jones > Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2020 9:38 PM > To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Ot: the milk rabbit hole > > So, found disturbing info. Was looking for natural salt sources in il should > shtf. Cheese without salt is just rotted milk and imma need cheese. > > Illinois had slaves. > > The saline river in illinois has an interesting story. Slaves in a free > state, decimation of forests, etc. > > I bet they seasoned a whole lot of cheese with all that salt > > On Tue, Dec 1, 2020, 12:44 PM Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > My son drinks Fairlife milk. AFAIK he is not lactose intolerant, just likes > it better. I’m not totally sure what the deal is with it being “ultra > filtered”, they say it removes most of the sugar, which I assume means > lactose (milk sugar). Their website says 50% less sugar, 50% more protein. > So if you’re lactose intolerant, taking out half of it probably isn’t good > enough. > > Looks like Fairlife is now 100% owned by CocaCola, not sure if that’s good or > bad. Coke has always been healthy, right? > > From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Chuck McCown via AF > Sent: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 12:21 PM > To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <[email protected]> > Cc: Chuck McCown <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Ot: the milk rabbit hole > > We will look for it. Lactaid milk works a bit. But I become resistant to it > somehow after some time. It may not be 100% blamed on lactose. > > From: AF [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Howard > Sent: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 11:02 AM > To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Ot: the milk rabbit hole > > Have her try getting some A2A2 milk (I think there’s a company actually > marketing it) to try in a recipe. Maybe you can bring the odds to 40/60 or > better. > > From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Chuck McCown via AF > Sent: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 11:52 AM > To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <[email protected]> > Cc: Chuck McCown <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Ot: the milk rabbit hole > > Killer, like pain so bad you hope you can die. I passed out from it once. > But it is a 50/50 proposition. So I keep doing it to myself. > > From: AF [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Howard > Sent: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 10:45 AM > To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Ot: the milk rabbit hole > > It would be interesting (from a scientific observer standpoint with reports > of effects of course) to see if you are able to drink milk or eat dairy > products from an A2A2 cow. Apparently many people who are lactose intolerant > don’t have issues with it. Cows can be tested but it’s far more common in > some of the “heritage” breeds than in Holsteins. If it’s killer soup, seems > like the roulette would be more of whether you die than diet….. or did you > mean killer in a slang sense? > > From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Chuck McCown via AF > Sent: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 11:12 AM > To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <[email protected]> > Cc: Chuck McCown <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Ot: the milk rabbit hole > > I used to have to crank my fricking arm off churning butter as a kid. Hot > summer days. I think it was warm milk from the cow. Left to set so the > cream would separate and then we churned it. My folks had a cream separator > but my brother ran used engine oil through it to see if he could reclaim it. > Nope… We only milked one cow by the time I came along so the separator was > not needed. > > Made lotsa cottage cheese too. Not something I ever ate. > > I didn’t even like butter back then. But I did enjoy the manufacturing > process. Severely lactose intolerant. I still have psychological aversions > to eating creamy sauces and soups. I love them, my wife makes killer > mushroom soup. So it is a bit of Russian roulette as to whether the soup > turns into a diet meal or not. (TMI ?) > > From: AF [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Howard > Sent: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 9:42 AM > To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Ot: the milk rabbit hole > > It will turn to butter typically but it does depend on the temperature of the > cream. Apparently the ideal temp for butter making is to have the cream at > 60F (15.5C for those in undeveloped countries). We used to just pull the > cream from the refrigerator and would often have trouble making butter. Once > we learned about letting the cream warm to the proper temp, it also greatly > reduces the amount of time that it takes to make butter and I can usually get > one of the kids to do it now. Cleaning the buttermilk from the butter so > that it doesn’t go sour quickly is actually more work than making it…… > > From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Cameron Crum > Sent: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 10:27 AM > To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Ot: the milk rabbit hole > > Where I am heavy cream is relatively cheap. I can find Kroger brand for > $0.99/pint and sometimes can find a quart for $1.49. Of course it is more > expensive than a full gallon of milk, but to me that seems inexpensive. I > haven't tried making butter, just whipped cream, but if you over whip it, it > starts to get more solid. I'm wondering if the mixer will allow the > buttermilk to separate or will it just keep blending it back in? > > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 10:54 PM Steve Jones <[email protected]> > wrote: > So I eat a ton of butter, like a pound or two a week, I love the stuff. > I've made basic butter a few times, but heavy cream is pricey and butter is > work heavy. > > I also eat a ton of cheese, I love real smoked string cheese, but it's as > expensive as beef. > > I never looked into making cheese because I always assumed it required raw > milk. > > My mom's church food pantry has to dump a boatload of milk every couple weeks > because of the way the government works, if you dont take all they offer, > they begin to cut you off. > > Mostly 2 percent. So out of curiosity I wondered if there was a cheese that > could be made (turns out pasteurized 2 percent is the milk required for > parmesan) > > That's a hard cheese and takes a press and 6 to 12 months to ripen. > > Anyhow, once I found out pasteurized commercial milk is actually preferred > for most common cheeses since the milk fat is consistent, I've been reading > more and more about the cheese, the byproduct of cheese, the uses of the > byproduct and the byproduct of the byproduct. > > Low and behold certain cheese like cheddar have a byproduct of sweet whey, > from which sweet cream can be extracted to make butter. So now I'm hooked on > reading more. According to most recipes 1 gallon whole milk will yield a > pound of hard cheese like cheddar or two pounds of soft cheese and the whey > will yield a third to half pound of butter. With the remaining byproduct > having a couple uses from protein additive to plant food. Not to shabby for > something that can be got for a buck 50 on sale per gallon at retail. And is > a waste product of food banks (sadly they cannot accept back processed cheese > and butter) > > But anyway this rabbit hole just goes deeper, turns out the demand for Greek > yogurt has caused damage for the environment and the demand for protein > additives has caused commercial cheese prices to not rise with inflation or > even go down. Companies actually start making cheese to get they sweet whey > byproduct to convert into protein. > > The massive demand for Greek yogurt created an excess of acid whey that used > to just be sprayed on farms. But there is too much now, it will kill > waterways because the organics it it and produce algae blooms. A lake was > killed because of cheese. An entire industry has been created to research > what to do with it. > > Whole point is milk is some pretty complex shit. It's like an addiction > trying to find out more about this. 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