Lessons I've Learned in Cooking

gardengrl

18 years ago

Don't substitute whole milk with goat's milk in cooking or baking.

Made a lovely cornbread today, but it tasted so baa-aaa-aaad. What was I thinking?

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centralcacyclist
18 years ago
LOL! I hope you have a large, grateful dog into which to deposit this cooking misstep! It does look vary pretty. What does goat milk taste like? I had a great aunt who was well known for her penchant for peanut butter and goat milk, probably together.
lindac
18 years ago
If it's really fresh, goat milk tastes pretty much like cow's milk....but if it "ages" at all, it tastes very Baaaaa-d.
That's one of the things that gives small artesan goat milk cheese makers that wonderful flavor....because the output of their goats is so small, they save their milk for 5 days or so and it gets "goaty". I love a funky goat milk cheese, but I suspect I would pass on the baaaaa-d corn bread! LOL!
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msafirstein
18 years ago
The cornbread looks great though!!!!

I've never tried goat's milk but I've been putting kefir is many things that call for milk. The kefir works much like buttermilk and makes things very yummy!

However a few weeks ago Joe made pancakes and used kefir and some sourdough starter. They tasted good but were sort of like Pancake frisbees.

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Daisyduckworth
18 years ago
Well! You've taught me something! I now know what cornbread looks like. I have yet to taste it, and rest assured I won't use goat's milk when the time comes! Cornmeal isn't an easily-found item in my part of the world. I've never tasted goat's milk, either, come to think of it.
gardengrl
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18 years ago
Linda, I love goat milk cheese too! I got a wild hair up my butt and bought some goat's milk at Whole Foods the other day. I had also heard that "it tastes just like cow's milk" too, but no one told me about the aging thing.

I turned my goaty cornbread into stuffing. Not bad, but I think I'll dump the rest of the milk.

It tastes just as horrible in coffee too! Bleh-heh-heh!
seagrass_gw Cape Cod
18 years ago
I've never had goat's milk, either, but I do love goat cheese. I tell my family it will be death by cheese for me here in Holland before I get back to the States LOL!

The first time I went grocery shopping here I wanted skim milk for cereal. I got the cereal ok, but I hadn't learned any Dutch yet and the milk cartons were confusing. So I went by the calories on the carton but ended up with buttermilk (which would have been ok in cornbread but didn't work so well on my granola!)

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