"After watching videos about making goats cheese, we tried some. They were Rock Pool feta style, Seaweed cream cheese and Golden Dunes hard cheese. I did not like the cheese but other people in my class did. I liked Rock Pool, it was personally my favourite. I think it tasted like garlic bread. It was good in my opinion. I did not like the first one". - Hunter
Apart from big Paddock to Plate operations our Year 3/4 students learnt that there are smaller businesses that cover the whole Paddock to Plate experience in their own right. The classes were introduced with a local business, Childers Cove Cheese Company, by watching an imovie featuring goat farmer and cheesemaker, Bernie Drake. Bernie described how goats are milked, explained the differences between goats and cows and demonstrated how the Cheese Company produces Sea Spray, a fetta style cheese, at their local processing site. As a consequence of their enquiries this term, the students are very familiar with the Paddock to Plate journey of milk as a raw product through a processing plant and they could see that the processes were similar to a large processor, like Bega, but just on a much smaller scale. During a second video Bernie described the type of goats milked, the products in their range and where their goods are sold. He demonstrated how easy it was to make ricotta cheese in your own kitchen using milk and vinegar. Our fortunate students were able to sample Greek fetta from our local supermarket and Bernie generously supplied some Golden Dunes, a semi hard cheese, Rock Pool, a Danish style Fetta with herbs and Seaweed Rolling Breaker, with seaweed in it. Students were initially very wary of the seaweed cheese, but this turned out to be their favourite – who knew! "After watching videos about making goats cheese, we tried some. They were Rock Pool feta style, Seaweed cream cheese and Golden Dunes hard cheese. I did not like the cheese but other people in my class did. I liked Rock Pool, it was personally my favourite. I think it tasted like garlic bread. It was good in my opinion. I did not like the first one". - Hunter Comments are closed.
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