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==June 2021 | Four horizons of Ardennes’ milk== | ==June 2021 | Four horizons of Ardennes’ milks== | ||
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<b><i>As the Maas bassin, I accumulated horizons, | |||
Layers of time, flintstone division; | |||
Layers of cheese, charcoal division. | |||
From bottom to top, goats, cows, goats, cows; they made these milks from all grass, | |||
From top to bottom, South, East, South-East, South-West; cycling around city of the Maas. | |||
I aggregated twenty eight litres, four farms, two ruminants, and two countries, | |||
One landscape. Its strata came to us from mines excavated under the trees, | |||
My milks were shaped from chymosin; separates whey from white curd grains, | |||
With heat that dries and press that drains. | |||
Ten days, I ripened in Penicilium candidum saturated atmosphere, | |||
Ten days, hands flipped and rubbed me in humans’s microbiosphere, | |||
I may retreat in the cave under the pasture, | |||
One more month, eaten for sure.</i></b> | |||
==Cow milk, batch #6 | 07.06.2021== | |||
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| 7L cow full milk, unpasteurised, provided by Ferme du Temple<ref name="temple" />. <br/>[https://www.strava.com/activities/5458037530 Cycling activity of the 07.06.2021.] | |||
|| No ferments added. | |||
|| - 4mL liquid animal rennet<ref name="rennet" /> in heated milk (31°C). <br/>-After 1h30' curds were cut in 4 directions and cooked from 31 to 40°C while stirring for 20'.<br/>- Dry curds were mixed with 3tbsp of coarse sea salt. | |||
|| - All the curds were pressed for 15' on each side, flipped and covered with 1/4tsp of vegetal carbon. <br/>- Stored in wood press in net until next layer. | |||
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==Organic goat milk, batch #6 | 07.06.2021== | |||
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| 7L goat full milk, unpasteurised, provided by Zorgboerderij Ravensbosch<ref name="ravenbosch" />. <br/>[https://www.strava.com/activities/5458050637 Cycling activity of the 08.06.2021.] | |||
|| No ferments added. | |||
|| - 4mL liquid animal rennet<ref name="rennet" /> in heated milk (35°C). <br/>-After 1h curds were cut in 4 directions and cooked from 35 to 44°C while stirring for 20'.<br/>- Dry curds were mixed with 3tbsp of coarse sea salt. | |||
|| - All the curds were pressed 15' on one side then swiped and pressed with the other cheese on top of it for 15', then flipped and covered with 1/4tsp of vegetal carbon. <br/>- Stored in wood press in net until next layer. | |||
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==Organic cow milk, batch #6 | 07.06.2021== | |||
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| 7L cow full milk, unpasteurised, provided by Hoeve de Koeberg<ref name="koeberg" />. <br/>[https://www.strava.com/activities/5458059770 Cycling activity of the 09.06.2021.] | |||
|| No ferments added. | |||
|| - 6mL liquid animal rennet<ref name="rennet" /> in heated milk (34°C). <br/>-After 1h curds were cut in 4 directions and cooked from 35 to 44°C while stirring for 20'.<br/>- Dry curds were mixed with 3tbsp of coarse sea salt. | |||
|| - All the curds were pressed 15' on one side then swiped and pressed with the other cheese on top of it for 15', then flipped and covered with 1/4tsp of vegetal carbon. <br/>- Stored in wood press in net until next layer. | |||
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==Goat milk, batch #6 | 07.06.2021== | |||
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| 7L goat full milk, unpasteurised, provided by Melkgeitenbedrijf Noelmans-Peters<ref name="peters" />. <br/>[https://www.strava.com/activities/5458066332 Cycling activity of the 10.06.2021.] | |||
|| No ferments added. | |||
|| - 7mL liquid animal rennet<ref name="rennet" /> in heated milk (31°C). <br/>-After 1h curds were cut in 4 directions and cooked from 35 to 44°C while stirring for 20'.<br/>- Dry curds were mixed with 3tbsp of coarse sea salt. | |||
|| - All the curds were pressed 15' on one side then swiped and pressed with the other cheese on top of it for 15' and flipped again for 15' pressing. <br/>- Flipped and in Mush-room<ref name="mush-room"/> on metal grid. | |||
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| - After 3 days <i>P. Camemberti</i> was growing.<br/>- It was stored in freezer after 10 days. | |||
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This cheese was exhibited during the [https://openstudios2021.janvaneyck.nl/ Open Studios 2021] of the Jan van Eyck Academie. | |||
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==April 2021 | Ardennes cheeses in Maastricht== | ==April 2021 | Ardennes cheeses in Maastricht== | ||
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This performance roughly named [Landscape, Soil, Cheese and me] brought Robin to experiment even more on cheese-making, drived only by his feelings of deep entanglement with the landscape surrounding him and the other artists staying at the Jan van Eyck Academie — to whom the cheeses were destinated to.</b> | This performance roughly named [Landscape, Soil, Cheese and me] brought Robin to experiment even more on cheese-making, drived only by his feelings of deep entanglement with the landscape surrounding him and the other artists staying at the Jan van Eyck Academie — to whom the cheeses were destinated to.</b> | ||
==Organic goat milk, batch #1 | 02.04.2021== | ===Organic goat milk, batch #1 | 02.04.2021=== | ||
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==Cow milk, batch #1 | 02.04.2021== | ===Cow milk, batch #1 | 02.04.2021=== | ||
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==Organic cow milk, batch #1 | 06.04.2021== | ===Organic cow milk, batch #1 | 06.04.2021=== | ||
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==Goat milk, batch #1 | 08.04.2021== | ===Goat milk, batch #1 | 08.04.2021=== | ||
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==Organic goat milk, batch #2 | 08.04.2021== | ===Organic goat milk, batch #2 | 08.04.2021=== | ||
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==Cow milk, batch #2 | 09.04.2021== | ===Cow milk, batch #2 | 09.04.2021=== | ||
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==Whey transformation #1 | 11.04.2021== | ===Whey transformation #1 | 11.04.2021=== | ||
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1.5 weeks of whey was cooked to a boil, simmer for 30' and drained with cheesecloth and a ladle. | 1.5 weeks of whey was cooked to a boil, simmer for 30' and drained with cheesecloth and a ladle. | ||
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==Goat milk, batch #2 + Organic goat milk batch #3 | 16.04.2021== | ===Goat milk, batch #2 + Organic goat milk batch #3 | 16.04.2021=== | ||
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===Cow milk, batch #3 | 19.04.2021=== | |||
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| 5L cow full milk, unpasteurised, provided by Ferme du Temple<ref name="temple" />. <br/>[https://www.strava.com/activities/5143996122 Cycling activity of the 16.04.2021.] | |||
|| No ferments added. | |||
|| - 7mL liquid animal rennet<ref name="rennet" /> in heated milk (35°C). <br/>-After 1h, cutting and stirring of the curds for 15' at 41°C. | |||
|| <br/>- All the curds were put in the medium round without cheesecloth nor pressing. <br/>- After 1 day in box to drain, the cheese was unmolded, salted with sea salt (1tsp) and stored in box. | |||
|| - Stored out of box in Mush-room<ref name="mush-room" /> after 3 days, on bamboo mat.<br/>- 2 days later, white <i>Geotrichum candidum</i> “wild” mold was growing well.<br/>- It was often flipped for 15 days until the bottom of the rind was opening with runny inside. So it was put in plastic foil in fridge for future tasting.<br/>- It was eaten after a total of 26 days of ripening. | |||
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This cheese shape was sharp when it was eaten with JvE residents. Unfortunaltely it was mild and not salty enough, despite its nice “small holes” texture. | |||
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===Whey transformation #2 | 20.04.2021=== | |||
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- 10 days of whey was cooked to a boil, simmer for 30' and drained with cheesecloth and a ladle. | |||
<br/>±1kg of good white Ricotta (dry curds) was obtained. It was stored in a bucket in the fridge and eaten with all sorts of dishes. | |||
<br/>- There was eventually 27L of clean processed whey stored in a 120L container. | |||
==Cow milk, batch # | ===Organic cow milk, batch #3 <br/>+ Goat milk, batch #3 <br/>+ Organic goat milk, batch #4 <br/>+ Cow milk, batch #4 | 21-23.04.2021=== | ||
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<b>Living soils make cheese alive | |||
<i> | |||
<br/>Here I am in limestone corridors, more than two months old, | |||
Read me through my rind, wrinkled by the wildest molds, | |||
Time is needed to get such thing, it grows as slow as the soil’s skin. | |||
Get us matter, get us proteins, we’ll digest them, let fungi in. | |||
Dead beings and milks, we like them all, | |||
White cheeses, black soils, same biotope. From the caves’ wall, | |||
I invite you: Lactobacilus, Lactococcus, Mucor, | |||
Penicillium, Brevibacterium, Geotrichum and even more, | |||
Mysterious, anonymous guests from which humans, | |||
Will make a feast. | |||
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| 7L | | <b>Total of 27L of raw unpasterized milk:</b><br/>- 8L cow full milk, by Hoeve de Koeberg<ref name="koeberg" />. [https://www.strava.com/activities/5155269295 Cycling activity of the 19.04.2021.] | ||
<br/>- 7L goat full milk, by Melkgeitenbedrijf Noelmans-Peters<ref name="peters" />. [https://www.strava.com/activities/5165435059 Cycling activity of the 21.04.2021.] | |||
<br/>- 5L goat full milk, by Zorgboerderij Ravensbosch<ref name="ravenbosch" />. [https://www.strava.com/activities/5185804846 Cycling activity of the 22.04.2021.] | |||
<br/>- 7L cow full milk, by Ferme du Temple<ref name="temple" />. [https://www.strava.com/activities/5185810149 Cycling activity of the 23.04.2021.]<br/> | |||
|| No ferments added. | || No ferments added. | ||
|| - | || - 15mL liquid animal rennet<ref name="rennet" /> in heated milk (32°C) and 1h20' curdling for first 20L. <br/>- 6mL liquid animal rennet<ref name="rennet" /> in heated milk (30.5°C) and 1h curdling for 7L left. <br/>- Both batches were cut and stirred for 15' at 35°C. <br/>- All curds were salted with 3tbsp of sea salt. | ||
|| All the curds were put in the | || All the curds were pressed in a cheese press (orginaly used as a fruit press) of 28cm ⌀ for 20'. It was then flipped and put in a box that happen to be too small. <br/>- 3 days later, the cheese did spread out in the box and its round shape was corrupted to an oblong shape. It was flipped and put out of box on a metal grid in the Mush-room<ref name="mush-room" /> to dry. | ||
|| - | || - After 11 days often flipped, it was lay down hay and rubbed with whey to increase dark “wild” molds growth.<br/>- After 1 month and 10 days, the cheese was brought to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caves_of_Maastricht caves of Sint Pietersberg] to ripen, where the conditions hopefuly develop interesting flavours.<ref>Thanks to Lukas whos house, in [https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=Petit-Lanaye#map=14/50.8065/5.6900 Petit Lanaye], has a safe access to the huge cave networks of the hill.</ref> <br/>- Out of cave in freezer for exhibition after a total 1 month and 25 days of ripening. | ||
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The aggregation of the first 3 batchs of milk did not curdle enough, eventhough they were left for 2 days to acidify up to pH4.7 in an open container with whey. (All milks were all skimmed and the cream was added in cream-cheese.) | |||
<br/>This cheese was exhibited during the [https://openstudios2021.janvaneyck.nl/ Open Studios 2021] of the Jan van Eyck Academie. | |||
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===Whey transformation #3 | 28.04.2021=== | |||
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8 days of whey was cooked to a boil, simmer for 30' and drained with cheesecloth and a ladle. | |||
<br/>±1kg of good white Ricotta (dry curds) was obtained. It was stored in a bucket in the fridge and eaten with all sorts of dishes. | |||
===Goat milk, batch #4 | 30.04.2021=== | |||
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| 10L goat full milk, unpasteurised, provided by Melkgeitenbedrijf Noelmans-Peters<ref name="peters" />. <br/>[https://www.strava.com/activities/5211215801 Cycling activity of the 28.04.2021.] | |||
|| 1/4tsp Penicillium camemberti <ref name="penicillium" />. | |||
|| - Ferment left to develop for 20' in heated milk (35°C). <br/>- 6mL liquid animal rennet<ref name="rennet" /> in heated milk (30°C). | |||
|| - Curds cut roughly and put by hand in big tomme and medium hoops with cheesecloth, and small hoops without cheesecloth. <br/>- Drained for 30' and leftover whey was added to the top to get all curds. <br/>- Let drain another 30' and in box to continue draining. <br/>- 3 days later, everything was put out of hoops and cloths aside from the big tomme which was flipped to drain more. All others were flipped and kept in a box. <br/>- The next day, big tomme was unmolded and salted on its surface (1.5tsp), as well as the medium cheeses (1/2tsp) and the small ones (1/4tsp). | |||
|| - Cheese were stored in the Mush-room<ref name="mush-room" /> to dry. <br/>- After 3 days the small pyramide was eaten. The small round got fly larvaes and was discarded.<br/>- After 15 days, medium brique was eaten. Big tomme was not good and discarded <br/>- After 17 days, the medium round was eaten with resident artists. | |||
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- Small pyramide was too acidic, almost spicy but with a nice soft texture. | |||
<br/>- Medium brique was eaten at home with a rather good taste and a light “pikant” from the rind. <br/>- The big tomme was absolutely terrible with too much runny acidic rind and a meat full of holes but very dry and a rancid paper taste that crumble in the mouth. <br/>- The strong farm taste of the medium round unexpectedly got a lot of success among residents. | |||
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===Organic goat milk, batch #5 | 30.04.2021=== | |||
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| 5L goat full milk, unpasteurised, provided by Zorgboerderij Ravensbosch<ref name="ravenbosch" />. <br/>[https://www.strava.com/activities/5212582862 Cycling activity of the 29.04.2021.] | |||
|| 1/4tsp Penicillium Roqueforti<ref name="roqueforti" />. | |||
|| - Ferment left to develop for 20' in heated milk (35°C). <br/>- 6mL liquid animal rennet<ref name="rennet" /> in heated milk (30°C). <br/>- 1h20' later, curds were cut and stirred at 38°C, but they looked very firm and strange. | |||
|| All the curds were put in a squarish box with whey to aggregate and stored in the Mush-room<ref name="mush-room" />. | |||
|| - After 3 days it did not aggregate and the whey was discarded.<br/>- Curds were kept in box to ripen. <br/>- Not much was growing after 6 days and the box was opened to get contaminated. <br/>- After 15 days it turned badly and was tested mixed with ricotta and salt to get a cheese-paste with no success. It ended up in the trash. | |||
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===Organic cow milk, batch #4 + Cow milk, batch #5 | 30.04.2021=== | |||
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| - 10L cow full milk, unpasteurised, provided by Hoeve de Koeberg<ref name=koeberg> [https://www.strava.com/activities/5211221022 Cycling activity of the 28.04.2021.] <br/>- 7L cow full milk, unpasteurised, provided by Ferme du Temple<ref name="" />. [https://www.strava.com/activities/5217514419 Cycling activity of the 30.04.2021.] | |||
|| 1/4tsp Mesophilic<ref name="lactic" /> and 1/4tsp Staphylococcus<ref name="staphylococcus" />. | |||
|| - Ferment left to develop for 30' in heated milk (35°C). <br/>- 10mL liquid animal rennet<ref name="rennet" /> in heated milk (35°C). <br/>- After 1h30' curdling, curds were cut and stirred for 20' at 40°C. <br/>- They were then salted with sea salt. | |||
|| - Curds were pressed in cheese press for 20' on both sides. The cheese was put n metal grid with cheesecloth above it and left to dry. | |||
|| - After 3 days drying, it was transfered to the Mush-room<ref name="mush-room" /><br/>- It was flipped often and covered with a net to avoid flies, and until 11 days it was cut in 2: one half in fridge, one half brought to France. <br/>- First tasting afyer 26 days of ripening. <br/>- Second tasting the next day after some time in warm environment. <br/>- Last tasting with resident artists after the presentation of my cheese-making performance. Last pieces were given to Lukas, the ripening cave’s owner. | |||
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* First tasting: a bit too dry and plaster-like in the center at this stage. | |||
* Second tasting: better and slightly runny after the train trip in bag. | |||
* Last tasting: very good, buttery meat and light brie notes, just the right salting. | |||
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==October-November 2020 | Sint Gertruuid cheeses in Maastricht== | ==October-November 2020 | Sint Gertruuid cheeses in Maastricht== |