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• Cheesey Gifts

  • When
    April 16, 2025
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    10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    19 Miller Street, Belfast Maine

  April 16, 2025 – 10 am to 4 pm . 1 day - In this class, we will make feta and a soft cheese in the morning, and we will then marinate in olive oil in jars in the afternoon. If time, we will also make cheese balls.We will have some jars for the class. If you have any special ones at home, bring them! Pint size, wide-mouth is best. Bring an apron, hair covering, and lunch, as well as a fancy jar or two to fill.$150  - Sign up and learn more here.

  Presented by Capercaillie Consulting/Appleton Creamery
  
  

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• Intro to Hard Cheese

  • Start
    April 23, 2025
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    10:00 AM
  • End
    April 24, 2025
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    1:00 PM
  • Location
    19 Miller Street, Belfast Maine - United Farmers' Market, Miller Street Entrance

  
  April 23 & 24,  10 am. – 4  pm. 2025, 10 am. – 1:00 pm (half day). – In this day-and-a-half class, we will spend the first day making one hard cheese, but along the way we’ll discuss the different steps that go into making a hard cheese, and how a slight change here or there will result in a totally different cheese. We’ll discuss the differences between milks, starter cultures, rennet, pH, aging and rind development. We will press it overnight, then finish the next morning.
  Fee: $200 –  Learn more  and Sign up here.
  

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• Italian Fun - Mozzarella & Ricotta

  • When
    May 07, 2025
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    10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    19 Miller Street, Belfast Maine - United Farmers' Market, Miller Street Entrance

  May 7, 2025 – 10 am - 4Pm. -  1day
  Mozzarella and Ricotta are two iconic cheeses of Italy, and so easy to make! You will learn how to make both in this hands-on class, and go home with cheese you have made! $100/person.  Learn more and sign up here.

  Presented by Capercaillie Consulting/Appleton Creamery

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• Intro to Goat Cheese - Date depens on milk availabity

  • When
    May 21, 2025
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    10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    19 Miller Street, Belfast Maine - United Farmers' Market, Miller Street Entrance

  May 21 or 28 , 2025, 10 am - 4 pm10 (depends on the availability of the goat milk)
  1 Day - Learn the basics of goat cheese. We will make chèvre (a French style of fresh goat cheese), and many of its variations, as well as feta. We’ll discuss how goat milk is different from other milks, and why certain cheeses are better made with goat milk. Basic use of ripening cultures and rennet and milk chemistry will be covered. Do you have goats and want to make cheese? Are you thinking of getting goats? We can help!
  -$150/person -  Sign up and learn more here.

  Presented by Capercaillie Consulting/Appleton Creamery
  
  

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