Raw Milk Is So Good !

We had our first experience with raw milk today. Husband was wondering about it and asked around and in a few days we had an address to go to to get fresh raw milk. It was just down the road a piece.





Bottle of raw milk.

We pulled up into the driveway. Paul went and knocked on the door. A very nice woman came out and showed us to the milk stash. Her name was Andrea. She lead us to a stairway that went down into a basement. We ended up in her second kitchen especially for the purpose of handling the milk. We told her we had never done this before and she kindly explained how people wrote their names on an envelope ( she handed us one of our own and a handful of pencils and a pen.) Then she said that this was a self service business and people come in and use the envelop for pay and then just wrote down what they bought. There was a refrigerator with big glass bottles with dates written on them. She says after 3 days they feed the milk to the pigs.

" You may want to skim off that cream on the top" she said pointing to the bottle. We had never seen real cream before. We were wide eyed as we looked at the  heavy cream on top of the milk. Andrea said we could make butter and whipped cream. We could also go buy Rennet and cheese salt etc. to make cheese.





We met her pigs.

Paul and I had seen she had pigs so I asked her permission to take some pictures and she agreed. This was a working farm with cows, pigs and chickens. We met the new litter of piglets.




Just born these piglets were adorable and very healthy.

And we also met her hens.

Andrea's hens.

When we got home we ladled off the cream and shared some milk. It was delicious !

Harley McFarley is a new fan of raw milk.

You can read how we made the butter here. We Made Our Own Butter!

Thank you for stopping by Little Utah Farm,
Until next time,
Believe In Your dreams !
Deborah `MOON`

We Made Our Own Butter !

Today we got raw milk at a farm down the road. You can read about that here. Raw Milk Is So Good !

We ladled the cream off the top of the milk into a glass jar.
Harley McFarley our cat,  smelled the milk right away and he decided he was going to help. he was already smacking his lips.

Harley McFarley loves raw milk too.

After getting Harley down from the counter, we took the jar with the cream, fastened the lid and began to shake it. We made sure the cream stood out for awhile till the temperature got to 66-68 degrees. Paul shook it first for 5 minutes and said nothing was happening. I looked inside and there was whipped cream.  Mmmmm is was delicious! I shook it 10 minutes more and at 6 minutes I could hear and feel a lump in the jar. How exciting !




I had no cheese cloth so I used a paper towel and lined a plastic container with it. I pour in the butter and liquids then strained it. I then gently squeezed the excess liquid out of the butter. It was a pretty yellow color.

Poured butter onto paper towel.

I gently squeezed out the butter milk.

I took it in to show Paul and his expression was priceless.

Butter milk was strained and a beautiful handful of butter remained.

He was so thrilled to see the butter. He asked for a roll with butter on it.

We had bread with homemade butter !

Today we got raw milk at a farm down the road. You can read about that here. Raw Milk Is So Good !

DeborahMoonMoen
of Little Utah Farm

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I will share this little story. I loved "show and tell" in first and second grade back in 1959-60. My mom taught me how to make butter and I was able to make butter for my class. Mom packed up some Saltines also so we kids could all taste the butter when it was done. She taught me to make a heart cake too. Here is that story How To Make A Heart Cake.