A Pleasant Accident by Nature

In the last few days, I have been experimenting aka hopefully learning...
how to make good eats with clabbering raw milk

well, I can't say what exactly happened here...
but, after 3 days of clabbering a half gallon jar of raw milk...
I got what seems to be cheese along with the soft curds of natural sour cream

I understand that cheese can be preserved in olive oil, so I went ahead and did just that...

and this is what you are seeing in the photo above

preserved this way, the cheese does not need to be refrigerated

although I must admit it does look kind of funky

and this is what my clabbering milk turning into whey, sour cream and cheese looked like...

while I let it sit for a few days to do it's own delicious thing

the cheese floated to the top; the whey in the middle; the sour cream on the bottom

the sour cream is straining into the glass cup to thicken it...

the liquid whey is in a jar to be used for various other things (dogs, chickens, cooking)...

and the cheese is rather a very interesting surprise to me

it came out with a pleasant, mildly tart, cheesy taste...

and a texture between farm cheese and mozarella cheese

rennet is not readily available here on this island...

and if the warm tropical climate is enough to help out with the culturing of cheese...

from my raw milk simply from standing a few days...

I'll take it

as for the sour cream; it really tastes a lot like creamy yogurt and super good with raw honey

awfully nice as a topping on homemade granola

so, the verdict on all this pleasant accident by nature...?

I'm grateful for the freedom to have a cow and raw milk

May your day or night find merciful blessings in the Lord's grace.

To Clabber (or, Not to Clobber) Raw Milk

This little bull calf only 3 weeks old...

is taking his very full share of his mama's milk

that's okay...

we know he is growing at a very quick pace...

and all that yummy, creamy milk is giving him all the energy he needs...

to run up and down the hills on Pilgrim's Farm

but, we still get some of that milk and I couldn't be happier with the wonderful taste...

that comes from all those green leaves, grass, bananas, sweet potatoes, plantains...

and a few more that my husband feeds Ms. Ruthie Moo Moo with

the cream in this raw milk is simply delicious

so, what else can I do except to clabber milk for sour cream

we drink our milk raw without fear

because we know that it is a healthy alternative...

to chemically treated, pasteurized, homogenized, industrial farmed milk

we much prefer our milk animals to be fed on pasture and kept healthy...

on what is natural to them and without the use of hormones and antibiotics 

did you know that the fat in raw milk will not cleave to the arterial walls...

as the unnaturally homogenized milk fat does? 

did you also know that the so called "whole milk" on store shelves...

is not really whole?

the factory farms sneak out quite a bit of the cream in the milk...

leaving just enough in to fool people...

and then the shopper gets double whammied in their pocket books...

when they buy the butter made from the cream that was sold on the sly...

that should have been in the "whole milk" they think they are buying

so while raw milk naysayers are clobbering good, drinkable, clean milk...

I will take my cow's and goats' raw milk and clabber them into...

fermented food that is good for the body

I simply put whatever amount of raw milk into a jar...

cover the opening with a paper towel (or muslin cloth)...

put a rubber band around it to keep it in place...

set it somewhere out of the way...

and then the milk starts to slowly sour as the cream rises...

and once a day, I shake the jar (with the jar lid on) to get the good bacteria...

equally distributed throughout the milk

and in 2 to 4 days, I will have sour cream that tastes better than store bought...

and the animals love the whey left behind by the fermenting cream

no need to do anything else to get natural sour cream

the whey can be used in baking if you prefer to keep it...

or you could just drink it yourself

and every couple of days, I just keep putting up a new jar of raw milk...

to clabber more sour cream for our kitchen and table use

it can be kept out if the temperature is cool...

or in the fridge in summer

by the way, pasteurized milk cannot be clabbered...

it will only putrify

there are lots of uses for clabbered raw milk and you can look it up easy enough on the web

here is a good food blog that I like with a post on clabbering raw milk

and there you have it...

clabbered milk aka sour cream with the clearer whey on the bottom

the short video below is a very interesting perspective on raw milk from a dairy farmer

when the Lord visited Abraham in Genesis 18...

Abraham ran unto the herd,

and fetched a calf tender and good,

and gave it unto a young man;

and he hasted to dress it.

And he took butter, and milk,

and the calf which he had dressed,

and set it before them;

and he stood by them under the tree,

and they did eat.

May your day or night be blessed in the clean milk of the Lord's grace.

Benefits of Raw Milk

Why we drink raw milk on Pilgrim's Farm
Dr. Gerhauser explains the nutritional value of raw versus pasteurized milk



May your day or night be blessed in God's grace.

Organic and Range-Fed...

We keep our cow and her calf out on the range that overlooks the sea

lots of food for the cows in a lot of space

it's a beautiful outlook from there and I always like to stop and just...well...look

our calf is growing fast and he has been fitted with his very own training rope

until he got used to it, he took my husband on some real "rides" down the road

he may be small, yet, but he packs a wallop of power in those young muscles

we have no real technicality to the way we milk

and we don't cut style with modern equipment

Ms. Ruthie Moo Moo just gets tied down for a bit...

just in case there is some head butting or back kicking

while her calf is brought to some other grazing for a few moments

a calf vying for the milk doesn't make for a good milking experience

husband cleans the udders with disinfectant

while Ms. Moo Moo gets busy with the banana bunch put down for her

she is not trying to pull away here...

she's just busy with enjoying her green bananas she loves so

she gladly lets her milk down for a bunch of bananas anytime

my husband has gotten quite good with the milking...

he prefers to use one hand and squirt the milk into a container that's been cut out on one side...

and then poured into the milk container

less dirt and such gets a chance to find their way into the milking container...

especially if Ms. Moo Moo happens to move

and no, I have not gotten around to milking the cow, myself, as yet

I prefer to milk the goat...

she's more my size

one side gets milked, then the other

once he's finished getting our share of the milk...

it's time to let the calf untied to get his share

and while she finishes up the last of the bananas, he's finishing up the rest of her milk

and we all live happily with everyone's share of raw, creamy milk

just another sweet blessing from the Lord who created all these things

May your day or night be delightful in the grace of God.

These Are Blessings from the Lord...

My husband faithfully brings up our goat, Farina...

everyday, just so I can milk her for the raw goodness of fresh milk

today, she gave 6 and 1/4 cups of thick milk

and while Farina gives us milk to drink...

Ms. Ruthie MooMoo is getting ready to give us milk of her own

come the end of September or beginning of October...

Ms. Ruthie will produce a calf

while the stage is being set...

Ms. Ruthie is getting lots of field greens

and papayas, mangoes, bananas, sweet potatoes, yams

plenty water, of course

and when the starfruit trees are loaded...

she gets them by the buckets

and she doesn't seem to mind an audience

not even when she cleans her nose

she gets her treats by hand, even

yeah, it's that good

after all, the queen of the field has to be given the royal treatment...

especially when her milk will turn into butter for us in the not-too-distant future...

the Lord willing

May your day or night be buttered in the grace of God.

Got Raw Milk...?

For thousands of years...

before the advent of Louis Pasteur...

the human race had raw milk...

straight from the udder

the raw milk came from cows, goats, sheep, camels, buffaloes...

and a few other milk producing mammals

this was a gift from God Almighty who refers to it as symbols/metaphors of...

 His blessings and His precious word

raw milk was considered a medicine in times past...

making weak, ill children strong...

and giving people good teeth and bones...

and all kinds of vitamins, minerals, omega-6, enzymes, CLA, 8 essential acids,

lactoferrin, an iron building protein,

lactobacilli to help digest lactose,

lactic acid to boost absorption of calcium, phosphorus, iron, proteins

really, how good can a raw food get?

raw-milk-facts.com

and then, came along pasteurization

this was to help keep longer storage life...

and someone said it would keep disease away

now longer-life, "cooked" milk on shelves no longer have all the goodies to make a body stronger

instead of souring naturally (raw sour milk is still good to drink)

pasteurized milk putrefies (not good to drink)

instead of tasting good and fresh and creamy...

it tastes just plain bad and full of funny stuff that shouldn't be in milk...

like synthetic vitamins and growth hormones and such

realmilk.com

all that special cream that makes milk tastes yummy and makes butter...

 is taken out and we are told...

that thin, milky water is better for us

when what they really do is sell the cream to companies...

to make the butter that they sell to us anyway

even the whole milk is less than you think...

you know, it makes more monies for them that way

I don't like to be beholden to them that withhold God-given good food from me...

so we got our own cow and some goats

see that rich and creamy, foamy yum-yum?

just try and do this with commercial, full of growth hormone and antibiotic,

funny-stuff-laced-grain-fed only 

(cows and goats are plant and grass eating animals by God's design),

 penned up, unhappy and un-natural cows and goats

I give my Lord God thanks for giving us these mammals to give...

good-for-the-body,

chock full of the things that are healthy...

real milk in the raw

it's a fight these days against the ignorant and conglomerate corporations...

to be able to have one's raw milk and drink it, too

happily, here on this island...

they haven't laid hands on our freedom to have raw milk

we don't have laws against it...

and we can do with it as we please...

whether we share by giving or selling 

even my dogs know which milk is best...

they take raw over "cooked" every time

yeah, Foxie, your cup of raw goat milk coming up, just now...

you smart dog

how udderly delicious

And thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food,

for the food of thy household,

and for the maintenance for thy maidens.

Proverbs 27:27

As newborn babes, 

desire the sincere milk of the word,

that ye may grow thereby:

if so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

1Peter 2:2

May the Lord be gracious to you this day, or night.