[Cheese] cheese coloring

[Beth Hill]

my "children" are adults. and have wonderful standards.  we live in a  
very rural area where cows are raised for meat and not milk, so fresh  
milk is not an option.  i thot perhaps there would be a natural  
source of coloring to use rather than artificial (food coloring).   
i'll check the online source that i got my cheese wax from and see  
what they have. thanks for the response.
Beth



On Jul 10, 2007, at 11:11 PM, Jack Schmidling wrote:

> Beth Hill wrote:
>> i'm a rookie.  my kids take one look at white cheese and won't touch
>> it.  can you color cheese with food coloring or do you have to use
>> something special to color it with?  and where do i get it?  and when
>> do you add the color in the process?
>
> You can get the proper stuff at any cheese making supply source and  
> you
> add it to the milk along with the cultures.
>
> However, I think you would do your kids a bigger favor by  
> explaining why
> cheese is colored and thereby expand their horizons instead of letting
> them dumb down your cheese.
>
> As I pointed out in another posting, the best cheese and butter cows
> (Jersey and Guernsey) produce milk with lots of cream and lots of
> kerotin.  This produces butter and cheese with a characteristic yellow
> color that was the standard of excellence.
>
> Unfortunately, Holsteins produce more milk per pound of feed and so
> their milk is forced upon the consumer because of greed.
>
> In order to fool consumers into thinking they were getting Jersey or
> Guernsey butter and cheese, the milk was artificially colored. This
> became  the way people related to cheese.  If it aint yellow, it aint
> cheese.
>
> So if you want yellow cheese use good milk or reduce your standards to
> those of a child and put coloring in it.
>
> js
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