TweetHere is how I made ghee, or clarified butter, from good quality unsalted Cornish butter made by Trewithen Dairy, near Lostwithiel in Cornwall. Sometimes mass-produced ghee that you get in those vicious cans taste a little rancid and top-quality ghee can cost a lot of money. For example, a small jar (less than 1lb or [...]
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Making paneer
TweetLast week I attempted my first home cheese by making paneer (Indian cottage cheese) from Cornish whole milk. 3 litres whole milk c.80ml lemon juice 1 square muslin or cheese cloth (c.30cm sq.) In a heavy-bottomed non-stick pan gently bring the milk to a boil. As it starts to break bubbles on the surface, stir [...]
Food and drink in Lombardy
TweetAs soon as I arrived on a late morning in March in the medieval city of Bergamo (Bergamo set on flickr), high up on a hill, the rain having washed its tiled and pebbled streets and the ochery renders of the Renaissance and Baroque buildings, food and drink were not far from my thoughts. It [...]
Discount food at stations
TweetIf you find yourself waiting for your train at a station fortunate enough to have a food outlet, you may be interested in a BiTE discount card which apparently will give you 20% off food and drinks from outlets like Pumkin, Caffè Ritazza, Burger King and Upper Crust among others. I have just sent off [...]
Give us this day our daily bread
TweetLast year, during the FA World Cup, I bought a sandwich which came with its own thought for the day. Today I find myself buying the same sandwich made by Daily Bread: shaved cheddar and pickle. It still comes with its daily motto which today is: If God wanted us to fly, He would have [...]
RIP HP Sauce
Tweet The last bottle of HP Sauce was manufactured in the Birmingham factory where it had been made for over 100 years early this morning. US company, Heinz, who bought HP two years ago are now going to have it manufactured in the Netherlands. West Midlands MPs have protestested both against the closure of the [...]
My cheese
Tweet My cheese Goats milk hand-made cheddar. Isn’t it beautiful? I am aching to try it. We will cut it on the day of the Mongolian New Year, Tsagaan Sar. I made it last year in September at Hartpury College. We were taught by Judy from Wharf Farm Dairy. It is a goats milk cheddar. [...]
Milk protest
TweetToday, a woman from the Women’s Institute of Tutshill, Gloucestershire, made a wonderful protest outside the Houses of Parliament in Westminster by sitting in a bath of milk. The protest was about the declining price of milk (down now only to 18p per litre for the dairy farmer from 24.5p ten years ago). We only [...]
Cheesemaking
Tweet A couple of weeks ago I attended an introductory cheesemaking course at Hartpury College, Gloucester. We were taught by Judy King, cheesemaker from nearby Wharf Farm Dairy. We made a cheddar method goats cheese which will mature in about two months. The photo shows the second cheddaring which is the process of re-cutting the [...]
White Nancy
Tweet One of my favourite cheeses. Newly discovered at Salisbury Farmers’ Market, White Lake Cheeses of Shepton Mallet specialise in excelling themselves in cheesecraft of the highest calibre. From their 600 goats, amongst which British Alpines, Toggenburgs, Saanens and Nubians the milk is tranformed into this most brilliant of foods.
