Kitchen Creamery: Making Yogurt, Butter & Cheese at Home

by Louella Hill, Erin Kunkel (Photographer)

A wonderful primer for making cheese, butter, and yogurt in your kitchen, featuring delicious recipes to test out your skills.

From cheesemaking authority and teacher Louella Hill comes an education so timely and inspiring that every cheese lover and cheesemonger, from novice to professional, will have something to learn. Kitchen Creamery starts with the basics (think yogurt, ricotta, and mascarpone) before graduating into more complex varieties such as Asiago and Pecorino. With dozens of recipes, styles, and techniques, each page is overflowing with essential knowledge for perfecting the ins and outs of the fascinating process that transforms fresh milk into delicious cheese.

Genres: Cookbooks, Nonfiction, Cooking, Food

527 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 23, 2014

Reviews

[Two Readers in Love · Rating 4 out of 5]

A wide variety of creamery recipes, from simple yogurt and butter to complex aged cheeses. The photographs are absolutely lovely but, save for a few, they are not particularly helpful; it would be more useful to have multiple high-definition photos of what different stages of the process look like, rather than just a glamor shot of the finished product. However, the written instructions are very clear, and the handy key guide for the milks, time, and culture requirements of each recipe are quite useful. I appreciate that the author explains what can go wrong, and how to recover if possible (turning a failed yogurt set into farmer's cheese, for example.)

I read the entire book but only used the yogurt and butter (and buttermilk) instructions, as that is what my family eats. This book upgraded my dairy game to include Paneer and Ghee (and I've been making yogurt at home for a long time.)

[Juli Anna · Rating 3 out of 5]

What a great resource for budding cheesemakers. This handbook is thorough, easy to follow, and aesthetically pleasing. I look forward to trying some of the beginner recipes in this book!

[Ana · Rating 2 out of 5]

Great I’m theory, terrible in practice (so far). Might update my rating...

[Mckinley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Levels of cheese making

[JustJams · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is just beautiful. The pictures make it fun to read and easy to follow the recipes.

[Deneen Spence]

Lots of good information. enjoyed.