On Friday, Sasha from Mad Millie Cheese Making Kits was in the store to explain her company’s home cheese making kits to the Friday Morning Cooking Demonstration class.
Mad Millie Cheese provides you with the ingredients, equipment, and confidence to create a wide variety of tasty, nutritious cheeses from your kitchen. Making your own cheese and cultured dairy products has many benefits:
- Making cheese is easy and fun! Many fresh cheeses take very little time to create and are ready to taste within days. Through our diverse cheesemaking kits, Mad Mille offers a range of easy to make cheeses, as well as some more complex ones, to help you work your way into the hobby.
- Making your own cheese means that you know exactly what is going into the food that you and your family are eating. This means that you have better control and are better informed to make those healthy eating choices. None, of the cheeses that you make at home will have synthetic or artificial preservatives or flavour enhancers.
- Impress your friends at get-togethers or dinner parties. Homemade cheeses make very special gifts. Your friends will be amazed at what you are able to produce, even if you are a beginner!
- Making your own cheese saves you money. You make one average sized boutique cheese such as feta or camembert, or one litre of yoghurt at home using only one litre of fresh milk. If you use four litres of milk, you will get four small cheeses or four litres of yoghurt!
Making cheese can be a rewarding hobby. Each cheese has special techniques or cultures which make it unique. Start with the easiest cheeses to make like ricotta, mozzarella or mascarpone where you can practice getting your milk to the best temperature. You’ll soon be able to move on to feta, halloumi, cream or cottage cheese and then to artisan cheeses and hard cheese.
Mad Millie also offers a yoghurt making kit and Sasha brought some she’d made earlier for us to taste. Everyone got a taste of the Mad Millie yoghurt with some of our homemade stewed apricot or rhubarb fruit that we sell in the shop. It was yummy! A yoghurt kit makes 10 litres of yoghurt from only 10 minutes of effort. This beats the yoghurt you can buy at the supermarket hands down.
Mad Millie is a new product line for our How To Cook store and we will either have on hand or can get any of the items Mad Millie offers. Here’s a Mad Millie recipe using their cream cheese.
Frozen Lemon Cheesecake
Ingredients
75g butter, melted
1 250g packet malt or plain sweet biscuits
393g can sweetened condensed milk
500g Mad Millie Cream Cheese
2 tsp finely grated lemon rind
1/2 cup lemon juice
Method
1. Place the biscuits into a food processor and pulse until crumb consistency.
2. Add melted butter to the biscuit and pulse again.
2. Press crumbs over the base and sides of a 24cm removable based flan dish.
3. Mix together condensed milk, cream cheese, lemon rind and juice until smooth
4. Pour mixture over the biscuit base and freeze until set.
