Thank you for this post! It's not at all like that nasty stuff, Angela. I hope you'll give it a try if you ever have the opportunity. This is a familiar question as I grew up drinking goats milk and still am blessed to have my parents share milk with our family so we can drink it.
We do notice flavors now and then due to something they eat but mostly it is just good milk! I don't have goats yet. But I do drink goats milk every day. I buy a gallon of the most sweet, creamy, delicious goats milk at our farmer's market every Saturday morning. My milk is produced by a Mennonite family farm. That Saturday milk is still delicious and soul satisfying by the last drops on Friday.
Hm, I wonder if some people just can't taste the difference between cow and goat milk, while other people can't. I have never raised goats, so the goat milk I've had has never been quite as fresh as yours. But I do sometimes get it from a Vermont farm where they advertize that it tastes just like cow milk.
But to me and my family, it does not. It is good, I like it, but it has a distinctive flavor recognizable as goat milk, the same distinctive flavor you get in goat cheese or goat milk yogurt. It's better than the stuff in the carton at the grocery store which isn't bad, to me , but no way could it pass as cow milk to my taste buds. It's sweet and delicious, but quite different from cow milk. Found this post via Backyard Farming Connection. I tasted goat's milk for the first time last month and it did taste like what I remember cow's milk tasting.
It was delicious and quite refreshing. Thanks for sharing this on The Maple Hill Hop! Abbi, Shannon and Daisy - you've found goat owners who know what to feed their goats. Janet, I'd be curious to know what those goats eat, but yes, some people can taste the difference even when it's slight. I've noticed that the taste of goat milk all raw milk, actually changes as the days go by, which is why I drink the freshest milk each day.
Ahhh, I can't wait till we start milking again, about one more week! My children are excited as I only allow the store bought cow milk during the off season for just kefir and yogurt making.
But when we have our goats' milk they get to drink it by the glass. My kiddos prefer goat milk to cow milk. The transition to the store bought milk goes over with weeping an gnashing of teeth I was sooooo excited It was horrid!! I tried everything, but nothing would fix the horrid taste. We kept her for the next year to see if it was just a fluke for her first milking season.
Sadly it was not. Strangest thing, since all of our other goats' milk tastes awesome! Blessings, Kerri. Kerri, how disappointing that must have been! But I know it happens, some goats just make bad-tasting milk. I had an alpine with that problem, I sold her just like you did. I'm glad your children love goat milk so much. You've got us excited for milking season! Only a few more months Great post! One of my grandmothers was next to a goat farm. While the milk does taste different, its a wonderful experience everyone should have.
Stopping by from the farm blog hop and yumeating. Thanks for sharing at Tuesdays with a Twist. We hope to see you again this week! When we first started drinking goats milk, my sister said she felt sorry for my girls they complained to her about it I gave her a glass, she drank some..
She quit feeling sorry for them : I have had bad tasting goats milk, though-handling it so important.
I just recently tasted fresh goat milk for the first time, and I love it! God bless. It is best to keep him in his own pen away from her except for that magical day when she needs him for mating. Hi goat lovers. I saved one from slaughter many years ago. Her name was Daisy. When I called her she answered me!! I am now looking for small acreage in rural Pa. I need room for my dogs, which are now mainly an Italian Pointing breed, and an English herding and ratting breed, both of which are friendly.
The Rotties are now my companions and protectors of 55 years. They have saved my life at least twice and prevented my house from burning down. I intend to have poultry, rabbits, a food garden, fruit trees and many other kinds , goats and my dogs. Goats are a must for me as I am lactose intolerant. Glad to read this post. I had goat cheese once at a nice eatery, I really liked it!
Then I tried buying some and it all tasted like dirty socks smell to me LOL. I read several blogs of people that raise goats, as we do as well :O. I have not milked our goats to date. I may soon though. More than for drinking I would love to find I liked home made goat cheese!
That is what I would do with the milk. Hi to everyone. I actually bought milk goats 9 years ago without knowing whether we would like the milk or not!
We did, of course, so that worked out, fortunately. Just a warning—the goats and the milk are addictive hobbies! I hope it can help all those starting out. By the way, everyone is right on target about getting the milk cold fast. I could cool my milk to 40 degrees from pasteurization temperature in 20 minutes or less, which is Grade A standard—and everyone loved the taste.
However,we have our own goats we milk and it is great! How you handle it helps a lot too! The fresh stuff is so good tasting! We started milking for the first time this year two. I have a pygmy mix that we have owned for 5 years but finally this year decided to try the milking thing. Her milk is so creamy and sweet, anyone who tries it loves it. I think everyone needs their very own milk supply in their back yard :.
The going out of town part can be tricky but as long as you have someone coming over to take care of animals already what is a few extra minutes to milk? There are alot of people that are interested in it and might be willing to learn how to milk.
We had also considered getting some milk goats for a while, then heard we will never get to have a family vacation, so laments a family who does it. They take them separately. So, while our children are so young we struggle with the thought.
But desperate times call for desperate measures, right? But now again I have a new interest. Thank you. But then, these were bred for cheesemaking. Those with higher fat content are said to be the tastiest. And yes, the taste of the milk has something to do with having the bucks in with the does. The lady just down the street from me had a few nannies, and put up a sign in her yard. Just a few weeks later, she had to buy another entire herd to keep up with demand.
I bought some from her to nurse the baby kittens I found under the house back to health. But they fought over the fresh milk. I love the blueberry and cinnamon cheese on my bagel, too. Thank you for posting this Kendra!
Bring on the goats! We bought a LaManche milk goat a few years ago, with all intentions of milking her. It tasted like a goat smells. I sold my LaManche 2 weekends ago. This past Saturday, I had a call from a lady who purchased a goat from me. She found two goats for FREE from a local guy and called me after she picked them up. I took her. I am keeping this little beauty now. We were given two this past spring and have fallen in love with their sweet nature.
Goats milk is SO incredibly good for you too, raw that is. In the hot summer months, we milk onto a zipper sandwich bag filled with ice to get it colder faster. I make yogurt, sour cream, ice cream, several kinds of cheeses, buttermilk and kefir with my goats milk.
So glad you had a good experience with the milk! Goats are so much fun…. They are fairly easy to handle though. Nubians have more spirit than other breeds…attitude, really. We have had milk goats now for eight years and we love our goats. Currently we are only milking one and my 11 year old son takes care of that. It works out well. We rely on you to do this. And, when you donate, you'll become a member of The Splendid Table Co-op. It's a community of like-minded individuals who love good food, good conversation and kitchen companionship.
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Email this. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Pin it! Share on Tumblr. Sponsor us. Molly Birnbaum Molly Birnbaum : My colleague Dan Souza and I were running around rural Massachusetts looking for raw milk because we wanted to illustrate the difference between goat's milk and cow's milk.
SS : What did you discover? SS : Cow's milk is just a totally different bird. MB : It really is. It's very different. It has a different flavor.
SS : So it essentially stays mixed? MB : It stays mixed. SS : How do the differences between these milks carry over to their cheeses? America's Test Kitchen recipe: Salad with Herbed Baked Goat Cheese and Vinaigrette MB : We decided to illustrate the difference by making fresh mozzarella with raw goat's milk and raw cow's milk and seeing what happened. SS : How should we be handling goat cheese when we are cooking? SS : That's a great trick.
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