If you live on a farm roses love the leftover water after you prepare a chicken for dinner. Roses will appreciate any chicken-washing leftover water you give them. Beautiful flowers! A Canadian trick from so long ago that people will say it is gross. But my Grandmother had to go to the barn every Sunday morning and take one of her beloved chickens and....... she did it all and we had the most luxurious roses in Bruce Mines Ontario where the sun only sparks for about two months! You got to go when the going gets good or parish. Can you imagine Americans raising their own food> America Starves 2040
I am happy to see that you decided to make ricotta. I will give you a tip, to save some time. When I put the cheese in the press, I immediately start warming up the whey, so it does not take too long to reach the temperature (medium heat). I also add 1 heaping tbs of salt in the warm whey, so you don't have to do that at the end, and the ricotta takes what it needs from there. If I want to be fancy, I also add a cup of cream to the whey and the final product is very creamy and flavorful, but that is optional. I never drain the ricotta more than 1h, 1h1/4 so it has a creamy consistency. You can drain it long if you know that you need it that way. I use ricotta for lemon ricotta cake, lasagna, mix it with herbs and make spreads, and many times I leave it as is, put some on a plate and pour a little maple syrup on it and a few pecans and have it like that as dessert. When the final whey cools off I still give it to the plants in the garden. Something else you can do with the whey, if you want to experiment and when you are not too busy, is whey caramel. Put the whey (or part of it) in a slow cooker and reduce the whey for 24h until it is thicker. Add some sugar and butter to it and you have a perfect topping for desserts. see the link for inspiration:ua-cam.com/video/TZZvCNEKTBI/v-deo.html
Thanks so much for the tips I will definitely give them a try next time I make cheese. Lemon ricotta cake sounds dreamy! I truly am thankful for your advice.
You can use whey to ferment vegetables, in baking, add it to smoothies, so many things. It’s very nutritious and filled with so many vitamins, minerals, enzymes and protein. Also ricotta is sooooo good and can be used in so many more ways than just lasagna.
Cheesecake and other desserts, make flavored spreads for toast (great for breakfast or snacks), make appetizers for crackers, mix with fruit and put on granola.
E logs . The fancy little cheese logs are expensive in grocery stores . I make my logs with shredded cheese and soft cheeses . Cottage cheese ricotta cheese goat chevre. It can be flavored with herbs or fruit or seeds and nuts. It's really pretty and the little gourmet flavored logs won't cost a ton like the grocery stores
I’ve not tried it, but after taking out the ricotta, if you reduce down the whey on a low simmer for the rest of the day, you can make a caramel brown type of whey cheese. It’s a Norwegian delicacy/specialty cheese which would no doubt cost mega bucks to buy outside of Norway. You can add a bit of cream to the thickened reduced whey before you put it in a dish/mould to set firm, and also add a small spoonful of brown sugar, both of which gives it a subtle caramel taste that goes lovely with fruit jam. If you just search making Norwegian brown cheese here on UA-cam, there’s a few videos showing variations of the traditional recipe. I personally think that if you make this cheese as well as the cheddar and ricotta, that getting three cheeses out of one batch of milk is just awesome! 🙂💕👍🏻
Thank you so much for your video. I like your kitchen layout. I'm still getting things together but hope to do more with what I have. God bless you and your family.
Oh I love to add to it some sour cream and a splash of sugar and salt wrap in a soft dough (like a pelmini dough then steam or boil the dumplings, and if you are really headonistic fry these in butter. Voila veraniki like my baba made. Sound like a lot of steps but super easy and delish.
Making my own Ricotta cheese is the only way to get Lemon Ricotta Cheese and it is so delicious! Made Raspberry Ricotta Cheese and then used it on a Chilpolte Seasoned Brisket with encrusted Raspberry Ricotta Cheese and reduced Balsamic Vinegar. Oh, MY! Roasted Mashed Potatoes with Roasted Beef Raspberry Gravy, Garlic, and whole Green Beans fresh picked. Baby Corn and Olive Salad with Rasberry Vinegarette. JUST THIS IS THE DISH THAT WILL CAUSE LOVE. APPREICATION. ROMANCE. HAPPINESS. COMEDY WATCHING. STAR GAZING........ with homemade Raspberry Cheesecake (Sprouts cream cheese). Simple. PS I serve an Arugula salad identical to Chick Filets about 5 ounces per dish.
If it’s not summer (feeding plants), I dehydrate and powder the leftover whey as an unflavored protein powder. I love using every bit of the food, hate food waste.
Cannoli filling. Spread on toast. In place of cottage cheese. Add favorite savory spices and place on appetizers. Loads more uses. Use your imagination. Add some heavy cream and mix to approximate cream cheese.
Use whey instead of water for bread, biscuits, rolls, some cookies, doughnuts, pancakes & waffles and the like. Makes a great base for beef soup or stew. Good for pork or chicken soups and stews. Good for making rice; the real stuff not the instant. Give it to the dog (helps their coat). Pour it on your roses, flowers, vegetables, lawn (you'll need a LOT of whey).
mix some eggs vanilla sugar ricotta and bake on 300 in a spring form pan. or, add savory -onions, spinach ricotta in pie pan, bake on 300. serve ricotta over peaches with honey. add sugar and a bit of flour and bake on dough like a danish. extra strain and blend to make a cream cheese. throw on pizza. make cracker dip by adding melting cheese and herbs or anything.
Absolutely, just may be able to taste a difference. I don't love apple cider vinegar flavor in it but totally works. Red wine would be interesting to try.
If you didn't make cheese you could just drink it as a hot drink with coffee, idk, or boil up rice with it. It's full of nutrients, they say. What if I took the cream from the top of the cold whey and made butter? Idk if it works. Can I still double cheese using the whey or did I kill its cheese potential? I suppose I can try both.
Here in North Carolina,raw A2-A2 milk is $16.50 a gallon through a herd share. Can l freeze the whey until I have the amount needed to make recotta??thank
So, I just made your cottage cheese from my Rogo milk. It came out actually pretty well. I let it become clabor for about 48 hours. Now I have quite a bit of whey left, but wasn’t sure I could make ricotta from clabber? 🤔
So I've never tried making ricotta from something I made from clabber and I doubt it would work because clabber has a natural sourness. Adding an acid like vinegar may do nothing. Or it may be totally different. I'd love to know if you try.
Can I ask something? Whey is a by-product after making cream cheese (the process is similar, 3 table spoons of lemon juice to 1l of milk). So by boiling the leftover whey again and adding vinegar you can extract more curd? Did I get it wrong?
My use of ricotta is simple, I stir fry spinach, and then slowly add about equal parts of ricotta... and then top it on toast. this is one of my favorite snacks. To me the whey is too rich in protein to waste on plants. Even after you have done cheese, then ricotta, there is still plenty of protein in that 2nd whey. If you have chickens, just fill it up with chicken feed and let it soak overnight. If you do this frequently, the protein allows you to buy layer feed (much cheaper) for your meat chickens as you are basically adding a few % of protein to the layer feed.
After you have made yogurt and then your ricotta is it time to throw the rest out if you don’t have a garden or do you keep using it over and over? This will be my first time trying this so it is a serious question. Thank you.
I have a question! If it is being heated to 195 wouldn’t it no longer be raw because pasteurization is around 160? I’m just curious I only eat or drink raw dairy and I was going to make the Ricotta for my wife because I figured it was no longer raw. She eats both raw milk and pasteurized cheeses.
I haven't heard of a way to make it without heating the whet but you should check out David Ashers book if you want the beat recipes for keeping the most nutrition in your cheesemaking. amzn.to/3ZpW9zA
Unfortunately, it does kill more nutrition than I would like. Ricotta is made with high heat but there is a book by David Asher who does more recipes that are a lot more tricky but keeps the milk raw. Thanks for watching ☺️
I can't say I have ever tried. I don't think there is enough protein left in the whey from yogurt to get any ricotta but.. I'd be curious to know for sure.
I use the whey from hard wheels usually because I have used mozzarella whey and it failed. I have seen others use it from mozz but I think the acid is too high for it to make ricotta.
I recently tried to do this with whey from mozzarella, and it totally flopped. I was curious if it was cause it was from the mozzarella whey instead of a cultured whey, any thoughts? Thanks
So sorry that didn't work 😭 I think because mozzarella is a high-acid cheese it doesn't turn out for me either. I have seen people online use mozz whey but I don't know how that works for them.
@DryHollowHomestead Yes it is raw milk. My raw milk gets delivered to my house. I have to boil it. It so happened, the milk was spoiled and curdled so I made cottage cheese. The remaining whey I tried to extract more cheese but didn't work
I can't believe the return from the whey. In a couple minutes I'm going to run two gallons. Although I'm using grocery store milk so not holding my breath for a great return
My ricotta doesn’t come together. I’ve done it twice now with no success in it actually coming together. There’s a ton of cheese but it needs to be strained because it’s tiny… any ideas?
We make golden ricotta tacos. Just mix the ricotta with some chopped onion, salt and finely chopped epazote herb. Hey some corn tortillas, heat them up and then put a spoonful of two of ricotta in the tortilla and roll it up and you can either fry it or bake them. Serve with green salsa, sliced onion in lime juice, sliced tomato, avocado and sour cream.
No way… Now I’m definitely going to give my roses some whey!
Dhanka❣️
Ha ha makes for good plant food.
If you live on a farm roses love the leftover water after you prepare a chicken for dinner. Roses will appreciate any chicken-washing leftover water you give them. Beautiful flowers! A Canadian trick from so long ago that people will say it is gross. But my Grandmother had to go to the barn every Sunday morning and take one of her beloved chickens and....... she did it all and we had the most luxurious roses in Bruce Mines Ontario where the sun only sparks for about two months! You got to go when the going gets good or parish. Can you imagine Americans raising their own food> America Starves 2040
I am happy to see that you decided to make ricotta. I will give you a tip, to save some time. When I put the cheese in the press, I immediately start warming up the whey, so it does not take too long to reach the temperature (medium heat). I also add 1 heaping tbs of salt in the warm whey, so you don't have to do that at the end, and the ricotta takes what it needs from there. If I want to be fancy, I also add a cup of cream to the whey and the final product is very creamy and flavorful, but that is optional. I never drain the ricotta more than 1h, 1h1/4 so it has a creamy consistency. You can drain it long if you know that you need it that way. I use ricotta for lemon ricotta cake, lasagna, mix it with herbs and make spreads, and many times I leave it as is, put some on a plate and pour a little maple syrup on it and a few pecans and have it like that as dessert. When the final whey cools off I still give it to the plants in the garden.
Something else you can do with the whey, if you want to experiment and when you are not too busy, is whey caramel. Put the whey (or part of it) in a slow cooker and reduce the whey for 24h until it is thicker. Add some sugar and butter to it and you have a perfect topping for desserts. see the link for inspiration:ua-cam.com/video/TZZvCNEKTBI/v-deo.html
Thanks so much for the tips I will definitely give them a try next time I make cheese. Lemon ricotta cake sounds dreamy! I truly am thankful for your advice.
OMG that's neat! I saw someone wrote that too. I'd better write all these possibilities down! Caramel sauce costs.
We make our own pasta and use the ricotta as filling for our ravioli. We make up large batches and freeze them in serving sized vacuum bags.
Oh my, Yum! I have made homemade pasta lots but still haven't tackled ravioli. It's on my want list though.
I love seasoning it with lots of salt and pepper and basil and putting globs of it on homemade pizza 😋
Sounds delicious 😋
You can use whey to ferment vegetables, in baking, add it to smoothies, so many things. It’s very nutritious and filled with so many vitamins, minerals, enzymes and protein. Also ricotta is sooooo good and can be used in so many more ways than just lasagna.
Cheesecake and other desserts, make flavored spreads for toast (great for breakfast or snacks), make appetizers for crackers, mix with fruit and put on granola.
Awesome ideas!
Lemon ricotta cookies. Most delicious recipe ever.
Oh my!! That sounds amazing 👏
E logs . The fancy little cheese logs are expensive in grocery stores . I make my logs with shredded cheese and soft cheeses . Cottage cheese ricotta cheese goat chevre. It can be flavored with herbs or fruit or seeds and nuts. It's really pretty and the little gourmet flavored logs won't cost a ton like the grocery stores
I’ve not tried it, but after taking out the ricotta, if you reduce down the whey on a low simmer for the rest of the day, you can make a caramel brown type of whey cheese. It’s a Norwegian delicacy/specialty cheese which would no doubt cost mega bucks to buy outside of Norway.
You can add a bit of cream to the thickened reduced whey before you put it in a dish/mould to set firm, and also add a small spoonful of brown sugar, both of which gives it a subtle caramel taste that goes lovely with fruit jam. If you just search making Norwegian brown cheese here on UA-cam, there’s a few videos showing variations of the traditional recipe. I personally think that if you make this cheese as well as the cheddar and ricotta, that getting three cheeses out of one batch of milk is just awesome! 🙂💕👍🏻
Thanks so much! I'll definitely be giving that a try next time I make ricotta.
Thank you so much for your video. I like your kitchen layout. I'm still getting things together but hope to do more with what I have. God bless you and your family.
Thanks for watching ☺️ hope that I'm helping 🙏
Thanks for making your video. I have a lot of whey from yogurt making so I'm going to try this.
Oh I love to add to it some sour cream and a splash of sugar and salt wrap in a soft dough (like a pelmini dough then steam or boil the dumplings, and if you are really headonistic fry these in butter. Voila veraniki like my baba made. Sound like a lot of steps but super easy and delish.
That sounds heavenly ☺️
I only make gnocchi with ricotta. This is a far less expensive option. Thank you!
Italian Ricotta cookies are soft and delicious
you can make ravioli or even just a sweet dip for fruit or desserts
Making my own Ricotta cheese is the only way to get Lemon Ricotta Cheese and it is so delicious! Made Raspberry Ricotta Cheese and then used it on a Chilpolte Seasoned Brisket with encrusted Raspberry Ricotta Cheese and reduced Balsamic Vinegar. Oh, MY! Roasted Mashed Potatoes with Roasted Beef Raspberry Gravy, Garlic, and whole Green Beans fresh picked. Baby Corn and Olive Salad with Rasberry Vinegarette. JUST THIS IS THE DISH THAT WILL CAUSE LOVE. APPREICATION. ROMANCE. HAPPINESS. COMEDY WATCHING. STAR GAZING........ with homemade Raspberry Cheesecake (Sprouts cream cheese). Simple. PS I serve an Arugula salad identical to Chick Filets about 5 ounces per dish.
Ricotta is great on pizza.
Thank you for sharing this recipe.
Thanks for watching ☺️
Ricotta cookies are easy and delicious
If it’s not summer (feeding plants), I dehydrate and powder the leftover whey as an unflavored protein powder. I love using every bit of the food, hate food waste.
What a great idea!
Cannoli filling. Spread on toast. In place of cottage cheese. Add favorite savory spices and place on appetizers. Loads more uses. Use your imagination. Add some heavy cream and mix to approximate cream cheese.
Thanks for the tips!
Try making Zucchini rollup lasagna.
It's more like stuffed shells than lasagna but it's amazingly delicious.
Sounds amazing 😊 I'll definitely try
I make Ricotta Cheese balls and Cannoli's. I freeze the whey if I have room but otherwise I do what you do with it.
Definitely going to try ricotta cheese balls! 😊 🙏and cannolis seem so hard.
@@DryHollowHomestead You can buy the wafers (several places on line) instead of making them, much easier.
Hmm great idea.
Season ricotta with Italian seasoning and salt and stuff cherry tomatoes. Use it in manicotti.
I'm blessed I pay $5.00 a gallon for fresh raw milk!! 🙌🙌 Farmer does it as a hobby!
What a blessing 🙌
Use whey instead of water for bread, biscuits, rolls, some cookies, doughnuts, pancakes & waffles and the like. Makes a great base for beef soup or stew. Good for pork or chicken soups and stews. Good for making rice; the real stuff not the instant. Give it to the dog (helps their coat). Pour it on your roses, flowers, vegetables, lawn (you'll need a LOT of whey).
Thank you
Thank you
You're welcome 😊
Ricotta ravioli yum
mix some eggs vanilla sugar ricotta and bake on 300 in a spring form pan. or, add savory -onions, spinach ricotta in pie pan, bake on 300. serve ricotta over peaches with honey. add sugar and a bit of flour and bake on dough like a danish. extra strain and blend to make a cream cheese. throw on pizza. make cracker dip by adding melting cheese and herbs or anything.
Oh, that sounds lovely! Thank you ☺️
Can you use a natural vinegar instead of white distilled? Such as red wine or apple cider?
Absolutely, just may be able to taste a difference. I don't love apple cider vinegar flavor in it but totally works. Red wine would be interesting to try.
If you didn't make cheese you could just drink it as a hot drink with coffee, idk, or boil up rice with it. It's full of nutrients, they say.
What if I took the cream from the top of the cold whey and made butter? Idk if it works. Can I still double cheese using the whey or did I kill its cheese potential?
I suppose I can try both.
I heated without vinegar and got ricotta, didn't track temp..
Any idea about transforming the lactose in whey into something else?
Here in North Carolina,raw A2-A2 milk is $16.50 a gallon through a herd share. Can l freeze the whey until I have the amount needed to make recotta??thank
I am not sure, I have never tried to freeze whey but it would probably work. Let me know if you try that and how it turns out.
Ricotta is good to use in a cheesecake. 50% ricotta, 50% cream cheese is what I use. Using 100% ricotta is an Italian cheese cake.
If you don't salt it it does make great lemon ricotta cookies.
Mmm, that sounds amazing 👏
So, I just made your cottage cheese from my Rogo milk. It came out actually pretty well. I let it become clabor for about 48 hours. Now I have quite a bit of whey left, but wasn’t sure I could make ricotta from clabber? 🤔
I have no idea why but when I hit the three little dots to try to correct my error, it will not let me. Raw milk…
So I've never tried making ricotta from something I made from clabber and I doubt it would work because clabber has a natural sourness. Adding an acid like vinegar may do nothing. Or it may be totally different. I'd love to know if you try.
Can I do the same with whey from making yogurt?
I don't think that would work. Let me know if you ever try.
Instant yoghurt
Can I ask something? Whey is a by-product after making cream cheese (the process is similar, 3 table spoons of lemon juice to 1l of milk). So by boiling the leftover whey again and adding vinegar you can extract more curd? Did I get it wrong?
Hey, so I have trouble turning a cheese whey that was made with acid into ricotta. You can always try but if it doesn't work that would be why.
@@DryHollowHomestead I am currently trying... and failing at that right now
@NMS_ShoganAye happens to me from time to time. I think if you could check the ph of the whey that would help but I'm not that commited.
My use of ricotta is simple, I stir fry spinach, and then slowly add about equal parts of ricotta... and then top it on toast. this is one of my favorite snacks. To me the whey is too rich in protein to waste on plants. Even after you have done cheese, then ricotta, there is still plenty of protein in that 2nd whey. If you have chickens, just fill it up with chicken feed and let it soak overnight. If you do this frequently, the protein allows you to buy layer feed (much cheaper) for your meat chickens as you are basically adding a few % of protein to the layer feed.
I have been soaking our chickens feed in my leftover whey lately. It's really helped with the feed cost! Thanks for watching ☺️
Hi Put it thru the press and u will get something akin to parmasan
That sounds like a great idea 💡
After you have made yogurt and then your ricotta is it time to throw the rest out if you don’t have a garden or do you keep using it over and over? This will be my first time trying this so it is a serious question. Thank you.
Yes, after the ricotta is when I give it to the garden. Thanks for watching ☺️
Thank you 😁
You can freeze ricotta as well.
I have a question! If it is being heated to 195 wouldn’t it no longer be raw because pasteurization is around 160? I’m just curious I only eat or drink raw dairy and I was going to make the Ricotta for my wife because I figured it was no longer raw. She eats both raw milk and pasteurized cheeses.
Yes, this would be considered pasteurized.
Do you have to heat the whey? I’d like it to be raw and after heating it like that you have pasteurized it and it is no longer raw.
I haven't heard of a way to make it without heating the whet but you should check out David Ashers book if you want the beat recipes for keeping the most nutrition in your cheesemaking. amzn.to/3ZpW9zA
Whisk the ricotta into your scrambled eggs. Yummy or look up a recipe for baked ricotta
Do you have to heat it that high? Doesnt the good stuff get cooked out of it and its not raw cheese anymore?
Unfortunately, it does kill more nutrition than I would like. Ricotta is made with high heat but there is a book by David Asher who does more recipes that are a lot more tricky but keeps the milk raw. Thanks for watching ☺️
I wonder if this can be done with whole milk from the store?
Yes, it can 😁
Can you use whey leftover from making yogurt?
I can't say I have ever tried. I don't think there is enough protein left in the whey from yogurt to get any ricotta but.. I'd be curious to know for sure.
Does the Whey have to be leftover from making a hard cheese? What about Chevre or Mozzarella? Can you use the whey from them to make ricotta?
I use the whey from hard wheels usually because I have used mozzarella whey and it failed. I have seen others use it from mozz but I think the acid is too high for it to make ricotta.
If you try let me know whether it works.☺️
Do I need left over whey from hard cheeses to make it or can I make it from just left over whey from the ricotta. I don't make any other cheese.
I think that after you have added your acid to whey to make ricotta that you won't get any more use from that whey to make more ricotta.
What can be done with the ricotta whey? The same thinngs as with cheese whey?
I think most of the usable nutrients will be gone after making ricotta but still use it on the garden. ☺️
I soak chicken feed in it, it still has a good bit of protein in the 2nd whey.
I recently tried to do this with whey from mozzarella, and it totally flopped. I was curious if it was cause it was from the mozzarella whey instead of a cultured whey, any thoughts? Thanks
So sorry that didn't work 😭 I think because mozzarella is a high-acid cheese it doesn't turn out for me either. I have seen people online use mozz whey but I don't know how that works for them.
Add honey to make a delicious dessert
Do you know exactly how much ricotta you get per gallon of whey?
It is not always the same amount, just depends on the amount of fat in the milk. Usually around a pound per gallon.
can I use apple cider vinegar?
Yes, you may get a slightly different taste but it works.
I have attempted twice and failed. Could it be that the milk in my area isn't rich in fat, or of low quality?
It's really hard to tell.. is it raw milk or are you using pasteurized milk? What type of whey? From what cheese?
@DryHollowHomestead
Yes it is raw milk. My raw milk gets delivered to my house.
I have to boil it. It so happened, the milk was spoiled and curdled so I made cottage cheese. The remaining whey I tried to extract more cheese but didn't work
@@utubebeena I was curious if the whey from cottage cheese would make ricotta.
I can't believe the return from the whey. In a couple minutes I'm going to run two gallons. Although I'm using grocery store milk so not holding my breath for a great return
What did I do wrong when I didn’t get any ricotta from my whey
I bake bread with my leftover whey
Good idea!
My ricotta doesn’t come together. I’ve done it twice now with no success in it actually coming together. There’s a ton of cheese but it needs to be strained because it’s tiny… any ideas?
I would strain it through a flour sack towel.
An d let it drain for a few hours.
Mine didn’t work either. I used pasteurized milk to make yogurt and used the whey from it. So disappointed.
Yogurt whey will not have enough protein left in it to make ricotta. Sorry
Put scraps out to the feral cats in the front yard by the Bath of fresh water Bowl for the starving unfortunates.
Ricotta maxed into mac n cheese is amazing. Just saying.
I need to give that a try 😆
Didn't work for me 😓
Beat gnocci ever is made with ricotta.
Yum!!
So basically what I am understanding is don’t throw away whey
🤣 right!
Mine didnt work
Oh no! What type of cheese whey did you use? I tried a few days ago and had a flop too.
same here :( I did it from mozzarella so hopefully another cheese will work.
if you made the mozz with vinegar, there won't be ricotta in the whey@@littleguyties
We make golden ricotta tacos. Just mix the ricotta with some chopped onion, salt and finely chopped epazote herb. Hey some corn tortillas, heat them up and then put a spoonful of two of ricotta in the tortilla and roll it up and you can either fry it or bake them. Serve with green salsa, sliced onion in lime juice, sliced tomato, avocado and sour cream.
Sounds Amazing 👏
It didn't work for me😢
Oh no. What kind of whey did you use?