Deborah Niemann – Your Home Dairy
Making Cheese and Everything Dairy With Your Goat Milk
Want to learn to make cheese and other dairy products with goat milk?
Have you tried to make cheese and found it challenging?
Making cheese is not hard, but it can be a challenge because the smallest changes in time, temperature, or ingredients can mean the difference between success and failure.
In this course you’ll learn to make seven different kinds of cheese, as well as yogurt, buttermilk, and sour cream.
Videos guide you step by step from milking your goat to proper milk handling through actually making each of the different cheeses.
You can print out recipes for future use, as well as the form for creating your own personal cheesemaking journal, which Deborah explains in a video.
Your Instructor
Deborah Niemann
In 2002, Deborah and her family moved to 32 acres on a creek in the middle of nowhere to grow their own food organically. With the help of goats, sheep, pigs, and poultry, they produce 100% of their meat, eggs, and dairy products, as well as a large percentage of their vegetables, fruit, and herbs. They sold chickens and turkeys for more than 10 years, and are currently a licensed egg producer in Illinois and sell eggs to a grocery store and through a CSA.
Deborah is the author of six books, including Homegrown and Handmade, Ecothrifty, and Raising Goats Naturally, as well as her latest book, Goats Giving Birth. She also teaches sustainable agriculture courses online for the University of Massachusetts – Amherst. She has been teaching Raising Dairy Goats Sustainably since 2013 and Pastured Poultry since 2015.
In 2022, Deborah got certified as a FAMACHA instructor so that she and her students could feel confident that she was providing the most up-to-date information on parasite research and management.
Course Curriculum
Home Dairy Basics
How to Milk a Goat (5:09)
How to Handle and Store Milk (3:35)
How to Pasteurize Milk (2:59)
Using Store-Bought Milk
Making Simple Dairy Products
Making Yogurt (8:01)
Making Sour Cream and Buttermilk
Cheesemaking Skills
Flocculation Demonstration (8:06)
Flocculation Chart (PDF)
Waxing Cheese (11:53)
Cheesemaking Journal (10:38)
Making Fresh Cheeses
Making Queso Blanco (6:38)
Making Chevre (6:58)
Adding Herbs to Chévre (2:58)
Making Mozzarella the Easy Way (11:32)
Making Aged Cheeses
Making Feta (18:56)
Making Cheddar (25:03)
Making Gouda (15:30)
Making Parmesan (20:16)
Recipes
Pumpkin Chevre Cheesecake
Chocolate Chip Cheesecake (6:36)
Caramel Coffee Creamer
Cream Soup
Nigerian Dwarf Goat Milk Pudding
Making Ice Cream
Resources
Cheesemaking Supplies and Ingredients
Mild vs Tart Yogurt (5:22)
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