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Chocolate/Peanut Butter Coeur a la Creme - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Chocolate/Peanut Butter Coeur a la Creme

I know this is not any kind of authentic, but what can you do when your Valentine loves peanut butter? My husband eats l...

Cricket Creek Farm in Williamstown, MA - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Cricket Creek Farm in Williamstown, MA

Intro: Road trip with The Cheese Queen Ricki came with me on this trip “over the mountains and through the woods” to the ...

Cooked Curd Cream Cheese - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Cooked Curd Cream Cheese

This recipe comes from Home Cheese Making, written by our very own Cheese Queen, Ricki Carroll. It yields 2 pounds of cr...

Hot Whey Toddy - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Hot Whey Toddy

Now you know we’ve gone over the edge! But, whey not? It’s cold outside here in western Massachusetts and if ever there ...

Creole Cream Cheese Recipe #2 by Bob Albers - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Creole Cream Cheese Recipe #2 by Bob Albers

During the 36+ years we have been in business, we have posted many recipes for Creole cream cheese. You will find the most...

Dianne Miller in Imnaha, Oregon - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Dianne Miller in Imnaha, Oregon

Dianne running her cream separator. Photo by Sam Miller Dianne Miller and her husband, Sam raise purebred Nubian dairy ...

Storing Butter - Part 4 - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Storing Butter - Part 4

This is the last in a 4 part series about butter – Making It (1), Flavoring It (2), and Molding It (3). Storing Butter Ho...

Holiday Party 2017 with Our Team of Veterans - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Holiday Party 2017 with Our Team of Veterans

The Northampton Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Leeds, MA has a very successful Compensated Work Therapy Program for ...

Molding Butter - Part 3 - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Molding Butter - Part 3

Easter Chick Mold available at Poland By Mail for $29.95 This is the “strictly for fun” segment of this 4 part series o...

Flavoring Butter - Part 2 - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Flavoring Butter - Part 2

Welcome to our 4-part series about butter. Part 1 is about making butter, Part 3 is about molding it and Part 4 is about s...

Making Butter - Part 1 - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Making Butter - Part 1

Photo from Delish.com This is the first of a 4 part series designed to give you all the information you need to be a Ma...

Becca Heins-New ACS Certified Cheese Professional - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Becca Heins-New ACS Certified Cheese Professional

It has been 7 years since the American Cheese Society began it’s certification program for cheese professionals and there...

Raclette Melter - A Cool, "Hot" Holiday Gift - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Raclette Melter - A Cool, "Hot" Holiday Gift

Our Canadian friends, Claude and Linda Garneau sent us pictures recently of their latest “toy” – a raclette melter. Claud...

Wheys to Use Those Hard Cheese Rinds - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Wheys to Use Those Hard Cheese Rinds

Photo from Happily Unprocessed Waste not cheese rinds – want not flavor! We love to eat the rinds 99.9% of the time. Bu...

Holiday Gifts for Cheese Makers - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Holiday Gifts for Cheese Makers

As they say, “Tis the Cheeson” for giving gifts. Is someone on your list a cheese maker (or a passionate cheese lover)? If...

Slate Roof Creamery - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Slate Roof Creamery

It’s rare that I stumble on a website and wind up doing a post about it. In this case, I was following a thread from the ...

Bill Strelke in Fredericksburg, TX - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Bill Strelke in Fredericksburg, TX

Bill Strelke considers himself to be a novice cheese maker, but we beg to differ. He has made a wide variety of very imp...

Making Fabulous Fromagina! - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Making Fabulous Fromagina!

Her Story You may not know our friend Fromagina – she’s the lovely daughter of Mr. Fromage Blanc and Ms. Mascarpone. Ric...

Halloween Pumpkin-Cream Cheese Truffles - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Halloween Pumpkin-Cream Cheese Truffles

These are too cute!!! It seems like whenever I find a recipe online, there is always something I want to change in it. So...

Thistle Rennet: Exciting New Product! - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Thistle Rennet: Exciting New Product!

When we first posted the article about Making Rennet from Fig Sap, we had many inquiries in the comments section about mak...

Easy, Cheesy Halloween Appetizers - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Easy, Cheesy Halloween Appetizers

Olive Aliens from Hungry Happenings. Draw faces with black food coloring marker and soak in the brine for a few minutes ...

Chalk and Cheese - Part 2 - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Chalk and Cheese - Part 2

How to Use Chalk to Identify Your Cheese They say “it’s all in the presentation” and maybe it is! If you have taken the t...

A Special Time-Keeping Spreadsheet for Making Cheese - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

A Special Time-Keeping Spreadsheet for Making Cheese

Cheese Planning Helper By Bob Albers* Like most of us, I love to make cheese. Because I don’t have my own cheese factory...

North Meadow Farm in Manchester, Vermont - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

North Meadow Farm in Manchester, Vermont

There’s a new dairy in town and they’re making cheese! Lisa Cross, Jesse Pomeroy and David Johnson have joined forces to ...

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