{"id":2570,"date":"2012-09-17T03:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T07:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=2570"},"modified":"2012-09-17T03:00:05","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T07:00:05","slug":"q-and-a-cottage-cheese-and-jerusalem-artichokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2012\/09\/17\/q-and-a-cottage-cheese-and-jerusalem-artichokes\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: cottage cheese and Jerusalem artichokes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cottage cheese<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>This weekend I tried your &#8220;quick&#8221; way of making cottage cheese using apple cider vinegar, only I used a gallon of store-bought whole milk because we do not have a cow. It turned out pretty good except I only got about 2 pounds of product. I was expecting more. I heated the milk to 180 degrees and added 1\/4 cup apple cider vinegar. Does this amount end product sound right or did I do something wrong? The cheese tasted good although my husband thought it was a little dry, so maybe I let it drain too long. Also how long do you let it sit after adding the vinegar before you drain it? I want to try this way again and see if I can get more cottage cheese the next time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Anita Bathe<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Whitewater, Colorado<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you got two pounds out of a gallon of milk, that&#8217;s pretty good, I&#8217;d say. You do drain off a good amount of whey when making cheese. That&#8217;s why I usually make ricotta when I make other cheeses, so I don&#8217;t &#8220;waste&#8221; any whey. Homemade cottage cheese IS drier than store-bought unless you add extra cream. We like it drier, but you could sure add cream to make it more like he&#8217;s used to.<\/p>\n<p>No, you didn&#8217;t let it drain too long. You drain your cottage cheese as soon as the curds have separated from the whey. It usually happens quite quickly. Did you add salt? A sprinkle of salt added to the cottage cheese after it has drained brings out the flavor. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jerusalem artichokes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Last winter a friend of mine sent me a parcel of Jerusalem artichokes to plant in my garden. A few of them came up early in the summer and are still living, despite our sweltering summer this year. I don&#8217;t anticipate having a whole lot of tubers from this first planting, owing to certain climatic and garden conditions, but I do hope to plant more this spring in an area where they can spread. I have read your blog about pickling sunchokes, and I have searched online for ways to preserve them, but all I&#8217;ve been able to find is pickling and freezing. Can sunchokes be canned or dehydrated? Or is this one veggie I shouldn&#8217;t bother with other than fresh or pickled?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Dallen Timothy<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Gilbert, Arizona<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t had much luck dehydrating or canning them. They&#8217;re sort of like cucumbers; you use them fresh, pickled, or stored, short-term, in your fridge. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cottage cheese This weekend I tried your &#8220;quick&#8221; way of making cottage cheese using apple cider vinegar, only I used a gallon of store-bought whole milk because we do not have a cow. It turned out pretty good except I only got about 2 pounds of product. I was expecting more. I heated the milk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}