Little Miss Muffet
February 19, 2009
How to make ricotta cheese. By Della.
First pose for pictures after putting on your horn mud.
Eat all the hay you can, and give pointers to your younger sister, Lula.
Ruminate in the sun if possible. Preferrably while your Mom owner is digging root vegetables for you. 
Give your Mom wonderful owner all the milk you can.
For more complete instructions go to Simple, Green, Frugal Co-op. I think there are more pictures too!
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Food Renegade
Simple, Green, Frugal Co-op
Wish I could find someone here in OK that would be willing to trade cheese for grass fed Irish Dexter Beef. Those teats look HUGE compared to my little girls, who only weigh up to 800 lbs!
Just curious but do the root veggies ever “taste” the milk?
Carol, don’t your Dexters give enough milk for you too? She isn’t too big – maybe 1000 – 1100 lbs. But she is old – and has always been hand milked and nursed by her calves. It’s a handful sometimes to milk, but I have long fingers!
Linda, she only gets sweet roots like parsnips, carrots and once in awhile beets, and NO BRASSICAS or the milk would be awful.
Oh Della — you are one beautiful bovine! I know I imagine it, but I thought I got a whiff of cud there
I’ve made ricotta a few times – incomparable! I can’t imagine doing it from one’s own cow – must be food of the gods!
I am already set to try this this morning
But I’m sure it will be nothing like the delicious goodies you get from your sweet cows. Oh, I did end up putting that picture of the cow from your earlier posts as my desktop wallpaper – thank you!
I learnt a little more from the other post, but I really like Della’s version of the recipe.
Okay, I’m back AGAIN. I’m having a problem with the ricotta recipe. Since reading your post on how to make homemade ricotta, I’ve made it a couple times. Here’s my problem. It tastes too good! My children eat it before I can cook with it!
My twins especially like it, and my son is content to eat it with a spoon. They leave just a spoonful or two left so I can’t say, “who ate all the cheese?”Argghh! This last batch that I made turned out differently than the others. I used whole milk in lieu of lowfat milk, and was surprised that it turned out much drier and “crumblier”. That didn’t deter the stealth cheese thieves. I’m going to try a mix of low fat milk combined with goat milk next, and hide it from my cheese-aholics. Thanks so much for this recipe. I’ll never buy ricotta again!