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Homemade Farmer cheese on a cutting board ready to serve.

The Easiest Recipe To Make Homemade Farmer's Cheese

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Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes
Servings: 0
Author: Stephanie

Ingredients

  • 1 gallon of regular full fat cow’s milk raw milk, or organic milk
  • ½ cup vinegar or 1 cup fresh lemon juice
  • 1 tablespoon salt

Instructions

  • Pour cow’s milk into a stockpot and place on stove. 

  • Turn on to low heat and gradually work up to medium heat. You don’t want it at a high temperature as it will scorch the bottom of the pot causing the flavor of the cheese to be off.

  • Using your wooden spoon, gently stir your milk. Keeping a close eye on it because once it starts to boil it will start to rise and will boil over!

  • Bring your milk to a rapid boil and remove from heat.

  • Next step, let sit for 2 minutes. This will help with curd formation.

  • Pour in white vinegar, gently stir, and watch your curds separate from the whey! 

  • Continue slowly stirring for 1 minute to firm up curds.

  • Pour into a collider that has been placed in a large bowl to strain out the whey and separate the cheese curds. 
  • Stir the curds to remove the excess whey.
  • Add salt, fresh herbs, or seasoning to make this homemade farmers cheese your own. 

  • Let cool a bit and serve!
  • Place this delicious mild white fresh cheese in an airtight container or a container with a plastic wrap covering for up to a week in the refrigerator or it can also be frozen.

Notes

Optional:

If you have a cheese press, you can press this cheese at a low pressure for about 10 minutes. This will give you a more crumbly cheese, about the consistency of hard boiled egg yolks.
Or you can place the seasoned curds in the center of a tea towel, gather the sides together and twist in a ringing motion to squeeze out the extra whey. This can be pretty hot, you may want to wear gloves and don’t forget to have a bowl under as you ring it out to catch the whey!