Best-selling author Ricki Carroll - known around the world as "the Cheese Queen" - and her daughter, Sarah Carroll, bring easy cheese making right into your kitchen with this fun guide for kids and families. Step-by-step photos take kids ages 8–12 through the cheese making process, then teach them how to make 12 classic favorites, including mozzarella, feta, ricotta, and cream cheese. A hearty helping of kitchen chemistry and math along with bits of international cheese making history add to the education. A bonus log sheet lets young cheese makers keep notes just like the pros, while punch-out labels and colorful flags will embellish homemade cheeses and global cheese platters. Kids will find making cheese easy and fun with these 12 step-by-step recipes for favorite soft cheeses that can be made in the home kitchen in just a couple hours. An additional 10 recipes feature cheese-centric dishes kids love. The Cheese Queen, Ricki Carroll, and her daughter, Sarah Carroll, are the authors of Say Cheese! and own and operate New England Cheesemaking Supply, a mail-order company located in western Massachusetts. Ricki is the author of the best-selling Home Cheese Making. She is a founding member of the American Cheese Society. Sarah is a master cheese maker who teaches cheesemaking classes for children and adults. Find them online at cheesemaking.com.
Good Cheesy Fun
Learn how easy it is to make 10 delicious cheeses – including cream cheese, mozzarella, and feta – at home! Then enjoy your hand-crafted creations in tasty dips and spreads, melted into sandwiches, or made into sweet treats. Chapter 1: We Love Cheese!
Great Moments in Cheese History
It All Starts with Milk
Meet the Animals
Good Milk Matters
The Other Ingredients
The Science of Cheese
Tools of the Trade
Keep It Clean!
Chapter 2: Let's Make Some Cheese!
To Make Acid-Set and Cultured Cheeses
Wrapping and Storing Cheese
Cheese Recipes: Mascarpone, Crème Fraiche, Fromage Blanc, Yogurt, Ricotta, Queso Blanco, Cream Creese, Feta, Mozzarella, and Other Easy-Peasy Things You Can Make with Milk
Chapter 3: More about Cheese (Including Recipes)
Meet the Families of Cheese
The Wide World of Cheese
Great Moments in Cheese History
Creating a Cheese Plate
Ricotta Pancakes
Super-Easy Cheesy Biscuits
Quick and Crispy Quesadillas
Great Grilled Cheese Combos
Marvelous Mac & Cheese
Mini Greek Pizza
Family Fondue Night
Itty-Bitty Lasagnas
Berry Good Cream Cheese Pie
A Free Gift for You
Metric Conversions
Index "Part kitchen science and part cooking fun, it's a fascinating process to watch-from a gallon of milk to tasty cheese." - Deanna F. Cook, author of Cooking Class and Baking Class
"A great resource which will both inform and inspire young people to explore the amazing world of cheese through direct engagement with it." - Jeremy Stephenson, Cheese Program Director, Farms for City Kids
"Each recipe is like a mini science experiment that just happens to end with a delicious result! Ricki and Sarah Carroll strike a perfect balance between teaching and inspiring by combining simple step-by-step instructions with loads of cool facts." - Elizabeth Anne Shaw, Editor in Chief of FamilyFun magazine
