Life in France

A not every day story of normal people trying to live their dream in France starting at the beginning and ending?

Sunday, July 31, 2005

Blessed are the cheese makers!

So said the translator in the Life of Brian and the greeks shall inherit the earth! I digress, this weekend was another first at chez peasant, we made cheese!! The sheeps milk was delivered straight from the farm on friday evening and we did the first stages on saturday and today transferred the resultant goo into cheese pots to drain off the excess water, hopefully in two days time it will have started to turn into proper cheese or else a smelly mess will be the result.

The reason for this FREE milk is that in August most of France closes for a months holiday and the tanker drivers that normally collect the milk don't! Of course nobody has told the sheep that this is happening so they quite rightly carry on producing the milk which is then either given away or tipped down the drain!!! What a waste, so luscious in a moment of madness said that we would have 20 litres! This FREE milk has turned out to cost us about 60 quid as we have had to buy pans to heat the milk in, rennet, cheese pots, special milk thermometer and not last stuff to store it in if it turns out ok!

We want brian
Well he's not coming out as he's been a very naughty boy!

pass the wine someone......

1 Comments:

  • At 3:26 am, Blogger Ally said…

    Ah, but next year, you'll already have it all!

    Thanks for your comment on my blog - I'll do a bit of research and add some Hugh FW stuff to the list this week.

    Just before I read your post I was having a think about making my own goats milk yoghurt ... any tips? :).

     

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