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Lucy House's avatar

I am so grateful that I live on a farm and milk my own cows for fresh raw milk, cream, cheese and butter! I use clabber to make my cream fraiche. This is delicious! Have you heard of clabber? I use it for my cheese starter too.

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Jeanne Kessira's avatar

Ohh how lucky!! The absolute dream!! Raw milk butter is the best! Yes, I have heard of clabber but haven't properly explored...would love to hear more!

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Lucy House's avatar

You can only do it with raw milk - starting it and continuing it. First up you leave a small jar of milk on the bench for 2-3 days until it sets like a soft set jelly. When it’s like this you use it to feed another small jar of milk - 1 teaspoon of this initial clabber to a jam jar of milk - leaving on the bench again. This second jar of milk will only take 24 hours to clabber. You can put it in the fridge for a couple of days or if you’re using it, just continue to feed it each day. People use it like yoghurt. I usually just use it in my bread or cooking, or icecream. Or you can use it to make crème fraiche - I teaspoon to a jar of cream. If making cheese I only ever use a fresh batch of clabber. I did post about it a little while ago on my Substack. And there’s other info online about it I’d imagine. When I’m not milking a lot nor making cheese etc I usually just keep a jar in the fridge and feed it every few days. The first one that took 2-3 days is often too sour for my liking so I feed it to the chooks. The ongoing clabber is quite sweet smelling when it’s fresh.

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Jeanne Kessira's avatar

OMG thank you for this! I absolutely need to try clabber milk now. Next time I've got my hands on raw milk, I will!

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Sally Gurteen's avatar

Thanks for this. Creme fraiche is in my top ten and I’m obsessed with raw milk - wish the local farm hadn’t stopped their vending machine while they do some year-long maintenance.

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Jeanne Kessira's avatar

Isn’t it just the absolute best?? Ohhh I hope you find a replacement!

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Sally Gurteen's avatar

Waaaah me too. In the meantime, it’s a creme fraiche party.

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Jeanne Kessira's avatar

My kind of PARTY!!

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