Cheese from pig's milk

[cazzab]

Is there such a thing as cheese made from pig's milk? Has anyone ever tried it?

[New Forester]

I don't see why sow's milk would not make cheese.

 

However, imagine doing it!  You shuffle the piglets off to one side, where they squeal like the devil because they're not with their mum.  Then you milk each of 12 teats without the sow knocking over your bucket, putting her foot in it -- or taking off your arm because you've taken her darlings away....  (I wonder if there's a 12-cluster machine on Ebay somewhere?)

 

You'd not get much out either, as pigs are more like humans than cows, and do not store up their milk much.  So a couple of hours later, out with the piggies and in with the bucket again.

 

You need at least 10 litres or so on one day to make decent cheese, so you need quite a few cooperative sows.  Then I guess it'd taste of pork.  Hmmm.  Not sure about that.  I wonder if it's ever been done?

 

I have milked a mare though -- that tasted of oats, though strangely the horse had not had oats to eat.

[FP]

They sell pork cheese in our butchers!

(It's actually similar to pork brawn and it's not cheese)  Any ideas on why it is called pork cheese NF?

 

[Dark Angel]

I know there's cheese made out of ewe's milk. I think its called Haloumi cheese. But never heard of cheese made of pigs milk!!!

[thewillow]

Fakeplastic - the stuff you're talking about is usually called head cheese.  It is a type of brawn.  It's made up of portions of the head, or head and feet, of pigs, cut up fine, seasoned, and pressed into a cheeselike mass.

[FP]

Thanks the willow.  Is this then the same as Pork Brawn?  My mother in-law used to make brawn regularly and my husband would like me to do so.  I would find it very difficult to cope with cutting bits of heads and feet!

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