Make it at home

Ingredients

  • 2 litres fresh goat's milk
  • 1/8 tsp mesophilic starter culture
  • 1/4 tablet vegetarian rennet dissolved in cool water
  • non-iodised salt

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Tip from the editors. Fresh goat's milk from a local farm makes an enormous difference; supermarket goat's milk is pasteurised at higher temperatures and produces a blander curd.

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