Dairy Delights

Table of Contents

Foreword

Milk throughout history
The origins of dairy processing
The emergence of dairies

The basic ingredient – milk, white gold
All about milk production
Our milk – highly sensitive product and all-rounder
Sheep’s, goat’s. and other types of milk
Feature: Grass-fed milk – natural milk for high-quality cheese
Processing milk at home

Yogurt – health from the kitchen
On everyone’s lips
Significant health benefits
All about yogurt-making
Homemade yogurt
Feature: Kefir – wellness from the Caucasus

Butter and cream – a taste sensation
Butter – historical and valuable
Butter and cream – some interesting facts
Other cream products
Homemade butter
Feature: Butter art – wooden molds

Quark – fresh cheese made easy
1001 types of cheese – from fresh to hard
The lowdown on quark
All about production
Homemade quark
Feature: The alpine pastures of my childhood – dairy farming then and now

Soft cheese – quick and varied
Soft cheese – an overview
Fresh soft cheese – here’s how
Fresh homemade soft cheese
Feature: Whey for health and beauty

Good things take time – semihard and hard cheese
Aged cheese
The long road to aged cheese
Semihard and hard cheese in the kitchen
Feature: Visiting the cheese sommelier
Homemade semihard cheese
Feature: A visit to a typical Bavarian local dairy

At a glance – basic equipment, checklist, quick recipes with step.by-step photos

Subject index

Recipe index

Acknowledgements