making butter and hats and more good things.....

Hah! I made fresh butter tonight, made cheddar cheese curds last week and they were good needed a bit more salt and took over 6 hours to make but it was fun and interesting, I also discoevered I stirred the curds to much and to fast so they weren't as goof as they could have been. Next time I hope but making cheese is trial and error and I expect to have my share of learning blunders.

Here is a p[icture of the butter, I was very surprised it was so yellow because my cheese wasn't. This was made from Fresh raw milk cream that I removed from the top of one of the gallons I bought last week to make cheese, if you let it sit a week the cream rises to the top and you can use it for all kind of recipes. Gave the buttermilk that comes off the butter to the cats. Had to use Cows milk fresh from a dairy since my goats are dry right now and it will be about 4 months before I will have any in milk. I used Jersey cow milk since it has a higher butterfat and they are so sweet looking. On another note I have made 3 hats 2 spiral and one with a button cuff, got to use one of the buttons I made. Here are 2 of the hats. The spirals are fun to make but I need to make the next one a liitle longer same with the button hat. It has been cold and wet lately which we really need the rain but wish it would stay warm cold and rainy is dreary. Took this picture the other morning after the rain it felt so crisp and clean and sparkly as yopu can see. The goats and freckles were waiting to be fed of course. beggars.