Learn How to Make Cheese

Whether you’re just getting started or you’ve been making cheese for years, you’re in the right place. Here, we cover the essentials of homemade cheese—from fresh cheese like mozzarella and ricotta to aged classics like cheddar and gouda. Browse our articles, or dive into a cheese making topic by scrolling below.

Boost Your Gut Health with Homemade Yogurt

Boost Your Gut Health with Homemade Yogurt

There’s something so satisfying about turning a simple jug of milk into rich, creamy yogurt. It’s easy, affordable—and unb...

Parmesan vs. Romano: Differences, Recipes and Cheese Making Tips

Parmesan vs. Romano: Differences, Recipes and Cheese Making Tips

Lessons from the Masters in Italy Cheese is culture—literally and figuratively—and few cheeses carry that weight quite lik...

Labneh Cheese Making Recipe - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Labneh Cheese Making Recipe

This is something my family has made for years, and we were taught to make it this way while living in Saudi Arabia. It is...

Queso Fresco Cheese Making Recipe - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Queso Fresco Cheese Making Recipe

I have used your Queso Fresco instead of mozzarella in pizzas and lasagnas and my family loves it. It melts beautifully, e...

Yogurt Cheese Recipe - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Yogurt Cheese Recipe

Yogurt Cheese may be made simply by draining the whey out of you yogurt. All that is needed is to make your yogurt and dra...

Shankleshe Cheese Recipe - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Shankleshe Cheese Recipe

Shanklish, the word is either derived from Arabic or Turkish, I'm not sure. But it is very popular in Lebanon and Syria an...

Saint Maure Cheese Making Recipe - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Saint Maure Cheese Making Recipe

A soft Goats milk cheese, shaped in an elongated cylinder or log. The paste is white and creamy with no holes and has a sm...

Queso Blanco Cheese Making Recipe - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Queso Blanco Cheese Making Recipe

Queso Blanco is a South American cheese similar to the Indian cheese Panir. It is an excellent cooking cheese.

Ostkaka Cheese Making Recipe - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Ostkaka Cheese Making Recipe

This is a Swedish, Scandinavian, dessert dish, traditionally served at Christmas. Not really custard and not really cheese...

Lemon Cheese Recipe - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Lemon Cheese Recipe

This rich and delicious cheese may be made in the evening and will be ready to spread on hot croissants for breakfast! It ...

Latvian Easter Cheese (Pashka) Recipe - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Latvian Easter Cheese (Pashka) Recipe

Oma's Pashka submitted by Brent Alderman Sterste My father's family is Latvian and we make a sweet Easter cheese called Pa...

Juustoa Cheese Making Recipe - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Juustoa Cheese Making Recipe

This Finnish, squeeky cheese recipe from Eleanor Miller in MI is eaten in cut pieces put into your morning coffee, or simp...

Oma's Janu Siers (John's Cheese) - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Oma's Janu Siers (John's Cheese)

Submitted by Brent Alderman Sterste. Traditionally made for the summer solstice - the longest day of the year.

Guban Cheese Making Recipe - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Guban Cheese Making Recipe

This is a Lebanese cheese using the simplest of ingredients. This finished cheese may be used in Lebanese round bread alon...

Fromage Blanc Recipe - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Fromage Blanc Recipe

Fromage Blanc is a wonderfully creamy cheese that may be used in place of cream cheese in any recipe. I love to use this i...

Farmers Cheese Recipe - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Farmers Cheese Recipe

There is a lot of variation in this white cheese because each person makes it slightly differently. Usually, whole milk is...

Edam Cheese Making Recipe - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Edam Cheese Making Recipe

Traditionally a Dutch cheese, made with partially skimmed milk & eaten when young. Edam has a subtle texture and a del...

Cup Cheese Recipe - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Cup Cheese Recipe

This is a Pennsylvania Dutch Cheese made by the Amish and Mennonites since before the time of the Americna Revolution. Thi...

Creme Fraiche Recipe - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Creme Fraiche Recipe

Creme Fraiche is one of those dairy delights that you try to eat just a little of but once you taste that first mouthful y...

Clotted Cream Recipe - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Clotted Cream Recipe

This is a specialty of Devon and Cornwall in Southern England. It is made from rich cows milk of the Devon cattle. Clotted...

Chevron - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Chevron

I am not quite sure of the spelling of this cheese but this recipe for an old world Lebanese cheese was given to me by Sus...

Butter in a Bowl Recipe - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Butter in a Bowl Recipe

Let 1 quart of heavy cream sit overnight to ripen in a large earthenware bowl. The bowl should be no more than half full. ...

Beyaz Peynir Recipe - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Beyaz Peynir Recipe

Beyaz Peynir is a wet semisoft white cheese in own brine, has a typical salty-sour taste with a fine flavor. It should be ...

Basket Cheese Making Recipe - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Basket Cheese Making Recipe

Handed down by word of mouth to Rosanne Coreano of NY, this recipe produces a rather mild cheese. It is eaten either by it...

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