Cutting the Curd Cheesemaking Classes 3.17

With a love of good food and a desire to reconnect with lost skills of the past, ‘Cutting The Curd’ Cheese Making Classes will teach you how to confidently make a range of delicious soft cheeses for your home.

As a trained Teacher and self-confessed ‘foodie’, tutor Louise Talbot and her family emigrated from New Zealand to the UK in 2010. Descendant from many generations in farming (both in N.Z and UK) Louise has a natural affinity with the land and is proud of her rural heritage.
She appreciates the simple pleasures of growing ones’ own vegetables, home baking, keeping hens (and in some cases pigs!) and sees cheese making as a lost art form …… and is a little concerned also about global food production and food security in the future.

“Not everyone can keep a cow, but we can all make cheese!”

Cutting the Curd Cheese Making Classes will explore the early history of cheese, the basic principles of how cheese is made and demonstrate (with your help!) how to produce a range of soft cheeses such as halloumi, mozzarella, mascarpone, salad cheese (feta) and cream cheese – using raw farm or supermarket milk and vegetarian rennet. You’ll sample cheese as its made and also take a selection home with you. The class is a good mix of demonstration, hands-on, theory and tasting.

You will leave with course notes and recipes (and the confidence to make many other types of cheese!) and will have the opportunity to purchase starter kits (£30.00) and supplies.
Classes are held in cafes, farm shops, country pubs, or village halls (or any similar venue) and are generally 10-12 persons (14 maximum) in size. Class duration will be approximately four hours and will include tea/coffee and homemade cake! Bring your apron – for some of you, making mozzarella can be quite messy!

Classes are also held at Cookery Schools and are generally for the day (including lunch/wine) where you will make cheese independently at a work station. Please see details (including price) on diary page.

Please download the application form at http://www.cuttingthecurd.co.uk, complete and post with full payment of £65 (OAP’s £55) as this is required before the day of class to confirm your place.