Posts tagged with brie
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1 July 2011 - Brie à la Carly and Jean!
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21 December 2010 - How to make brie cheese at home
Recently we’ve been making a fair bit of brie cheese. We’ve been using the Cleopatra’s raw cow’s milk (including the cream on top!). 4L makes 3 good size brie cheese wheels. We simply heat the milk up to 32°C in a big sterilised pot, add in a mesophilic starter (the culture – a couple of grains), the penicillum candidum (this is the white mould that grows on the outside – a couple of grains) and the rennet (1/4 teaspoon mixed in just less than 1 tablespoon water), stirring in an 8 shape for around 2 minutes. Then we leave it, off the heat, for around 45 minutes. (note: please check the amounts you should use on the specific rennet, starter and penicillum you buy).
When we have returned to the pot the milk has set so we cut it with a knife in to cubes which are then ladled in … Read the rest