Bee~ Journal of then...

[Beekissed]

Yeah, I'll be careful with the de-worming...I'll probably try the Salatin method for now, with Basic H and maybe some DE.

I love cheese but I'm lactose intolerant, which I'm sure will not happen with this cow's milk or cheese.

I will definitely be getting a book on making different kinds of cheese and be experimenting with it all. The butter is something I will definitely be using on my homemade bread on occasion....that is something that is too good to resist!

My boy wants me to make some pepper jack cheese this summer when the peppers come on.

Wouldn't it be neat to have some real cow's milk, cheeses, butters, buttermilk and get to remember how it all used to taste before the USDA got hold of it and turned it into the greasy, tasteless fair now the store shelves for our eating pleasure?

 

[miss_thenorth]

My ds is lactose intolerant, (I was too, until I got pregnant the first time), (and ds is growing out of it), but as I was doing research, I read that LI doesn't seem to happen if you drink unpasteurized milk. The pasteurization process kills the good bacteria that combats the lactose enzymes in milk--maybe you should try it, should her milk turn out safe.

 

[freemotion]

If I drink so much as a tablespoonful of milk, I am SICK for a whole day, it is also very painful. Then my ND told me about raw milk. Couldn't find it, didn't really believe her anyways. Then I got the goat. My first two-days-off-in-a-row I gingerly drank an ounce of raw goat's milk. No issues. Next day off, I drank half a cup. No problems. Now I drink two cups in my big mug of hot.....no, warm chocolate (I filter it right into my mug in which I have used boiling water to melt some baking chocolate) every morning....mmmmmmm!

I read Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. In it, she takes a cheesemaking class, and lo and behold! She and one of her daughters who are very lactose intolerant can eat the homemade cheese. The commercial manufacturers speed up the process. Also, at home, you have the option of raw cheese. You gotta borrow the book, Bee, from your library. A lot of it will be silliness to you, since you are so far beyond what she did in that year of eating local, but at least read about the cheesemaking. That is what got me on my dairy animal quest. I LOVE cheese!!!!

Goat's milk is different, however, it is more tolerated because of the size of the fat molecules, or something like that. Who cares, I can drink it. That is wonderful to me!

Oh, and how about this. You don't get calcium from pasteurized milk. You even have to add calcium chloride to store-bought milk because the calcium is damaged by the pasteurization process so it won't make cheese. No wonder osteoporosis is so prevalant in the countries with the highest consumption of dairy, like the USA.

 

[Beekissed]

This I can believe! I've already searched both libraries for that book, free, and they don't have it! I will probably have to buy it from Amazon.

A little known fact about calcium that your doc never tells you and what could be causing so much osteo in the US. Calcium stays in the blood stream and does not deposit into bone unless the bones are under stress on a regular basis....as in weight bearing exercise. One can pop all the Calcium supplements in the world, eat all the dairy and green leafy veggies....but until one does wt. bearing exercise, like vigorous walking, bending, lifting and actively moving...it stays right in the blood stream until it is flushed out of the body. Bone forms along the line of stress. One must stress one's bones to get them stronger. In the US you don't find many women who work hard or stress their bones with wt. bearing exercise. We've become a generation of soft-livin' gals.

Remember this ladies....every day...wt. bearing exercise, standing up straight all the time..or kiss your spine good-bye.

Think about this picture....tiny, skinny old ladies with a kyphotic hump on their back. Never hardly see a fat old lady with a bent old back because, however unintentionally, they have stressed their bones with all the extra weight they carry. Formed stronger bones than did the willowy ladies. Of course, they die earlier from over-stressing their heart ~but they have stronger bones!

 

[freemotion]

Do you have interlibrary loan? Don't buy it, it is not a reference work, I don't want you to spend money on it when you have so many other things to buy! There is just that chapter that you have to read to give you hope! Say CHEESE!

 

[Beekissed]

No, free, no interlibrary loaning.....sad really, because where I used to live we could get just about any book. Really spoils one for living in the boondocks!

I'll be buying a good book on cheese making and it could possibly include that info, free.

Could you post a pic of your cheese press for me? Just so I can see if I can improvise and make my own without having to buy one.....

 

[freemotion]

Oh, mine was so cheap and easy! I will post a pic soon, maybe tomorrow if it is not raining. I work tomorrow and Saturday is the first day of a new semester at massage school, so remind me on Sunday if you don't see pix.

Don't do what I did, and build your cheese press while the cheese is in the pot!

That book was a best-seller.....request that they buy it!

 

[Beekissed]

Okay, peeps! I went to an auction today and I scored!!!!!!

Here's what I got:

2 hoes(worn out)
1 shovel(worn out)
1 spading fork/manure fork(great shape!)

All for $8


3 veggie/apple baskets, one full of skeins of yarn

All for $2


One sewing table(the base of a treadle machine with the ornate legs and the wheel attached)

$1


2 Doz. 1/2 gal. canning jars, some with zinc lids(future milk jugs!)

$10


1 box of assorted glass jugs and bottles with balers and zinc lids, most 1/2 gal. or gal. size. (Also future milk jugs!)

$1



1 Gem Dandy electric 2 gal. butter churn (works!)



$15 (a $279 value if ordered from Lehman's)



1 full size sofa, 1 matching love seat, 1 matching ottoman, 5 matching throw pillows, arm covers ~ a floral brocade, very well- made, Masterfield brand of furniture, no wear, hardly looks used at all. Pillow back, good springs, very comfortable~and goes with my living room color scheme as if made for it! Also fits better than my old, worn-out, teen-ridden, too horrible to show to company furniture that I presently possess.

$110



So....for a grand total of $147 dollars I got new furniture, a way to make butter and sell it, jars and jugs in which to sell my milk, baskets for my subscription veggie baskets I plan to sell, a table on which to place my sewing machine so I can sew quilts, and a spading fork for my garden!!!!!

God has blessed me coming and going today, no doubt about it!

And I really think He wants me to have this cow!

 

[elwood]

WOW great buys. Congrats. I thought I did good at the garage sales but you beat me hands down

 

[MorelCabin]

Wow Bee! You done good! I think I'm gonna take you along to my next garage sale shopping trip:>) Enjoy all those things....whooo hoo, new furniture even!