How to Make Cheese from Milk and Lemon Juice

Oct 24, 2023

Learn how to make cheese from milk and lemon juice–known as homemade farmers cheese–and you’ll have a 30-minute cheese from two ingredients that can yield fresh chevre blanc, queso blanco, or queso fresca.

I especially love that this is one of those "How to Make Cheese at Home" recipes that is a use for sour milk. If you have milk that you think is past the "use by" date or starting to be sour, don't throw it away. Make homemade farmers cheese! One gallon of milk will produce about one pound of cheese.

Aur ‘DaEnergyMon’, is a NABCEP Certified Solar PV Installer. His name Aur (pronounced "or") means light or to enlighten in Hebrew.Aur Beck has lived completely off-grid for more than 35 years.. He can be reached at [email protected] . Aur is a presenter atThe Climate Reality Project, a fellow addict atOil Addicts Anonymous International and a talk show co-host atWDBX Community Radio for Southern Illinois 91.1 FM. Find him on theLiving Off Grid, Really!?!?Facebook page, and read all of Aur's MOTHER EARTH NEWS postshere.

All MOTHER EARTH NEWS community bloggers have agreed to follow our blogging guidelines, and they are responsible for the accuracy of their posts.

The flavors I like tend to be savory, such as garlic or Italian seasoning, but my ultimate favorite is cinnamon-raisin. Freezing this cheese does not seem to change texture or flavor. In the spring when we had tons of milk from our goats, we would make lots of cheese and freeze it in 1-pound chunks. This is so simple to make we never got around to making the more common aged hard cheeses.

Aur Beck has lived completely off-grid for over 35 years and he works as Chief Tech for AES Solar. He has traveled with his family through 24 states and 14,000 recorded miles by horse-drawn wagon. Aur is a presenter at The Climate Reality Project, a fellow addict at Oil Addicts Anonymous International and a talk show co-host at WDBX Community Radio for Southern Illinois 91.1 FM. Find him on the Living Off Grid, Really!?!?Facebook page.