Andrew, our favourite milk delivery driver dropped off 1,500 litres of sheep’s milk with us yesterday.  It is always nice to see Andrew – it has been almost a year.  He is in Pasteurised milk going in to the vat through the swinging arm good health and continues to go to his dancing dos.  It was nice to see him and I swear, he does not look a day older. So, this morning, Stu pasteurised 1,500 litres of sheep’s milk and added the starter culture at around 9am and ripened for a

Andrew our favourite milk delivery person As readers of this blog will know: for us to process 2,000 litres of sheep’s milk is hard going.  We use both vats, putting 1,500 litres in the large vat and 500 in the small vat.  Any more than this in either, makes it too difficult to block and cut because there is too much curd in the vat. A moment of sadness as this is the last time we shall see out favourite milk wagon driver, Andrew, but we said a fond farewell – until next year

Stu being camera shy, cutting the small vat Last Friday was our second sheep make of the year and jolly hard work it was too.  Having said that, Stu assured me that it went a great deal smoother than the first time, a couple of weeks ago when the pasteuriser played up because we asked it to pasteurise just over 2,000 litres, which it doesn’t like, and the whey pipes froze because of the weather. Last time, I was up at Jervaulx, freezing in -6 oc feeling very Our stainless ste

Our favourite milk delivery driver: Andrew from Sheep’s Milk UK I know, we always say that we never make cheese on a Friday.  This is true except for sheep cheese.  We are due five deliveries of sheep’s milk this year which arrive on a Thursday and we process the following day, on a Friday.  This year, Simon, the owner of Sheep Milk UK or SMUK has bought a baby tanker that holds around 3,000 litres which can be towed by an ordinary car by Andrew who has an HGV licence, so is