Algorithms and instructions
I have to wonder how sophisticated Tesco's algorithm is: will it have decided we've suddenly become alcoholics, or will it put together 'house in the country', 'buy mostly Finest stuff' and 'suddenly buying lots of bottles of Tesco Value gin in the autumn' to conclude that we're making sloe gin?
(Also, as it happens, hop vodka: a chance comment on TKC last week, combined with the hops being just ready to pick: I've done two experimental bottles, one with fresh and one with dried, and expect to present them to beer-drinkers of my acquaintance to see how revolted / pleased they look when they taste it.)
This afternoon, we took Jo for a run on the beach and, when we got back, I attempted mozzarella. I seem to have actually produced rather elaborate, smooth cottage cheese, but I'm not sure where I went wrong. Certainly, now that I look at other sets of instructions with actual photos, the liquid that I had left after the curds separated was too cloudy. I did think that that was the case and leave it a little longer to see if it separated more, though, and it didn't. I guess I'll have to find some other instructions and try again.
Edit: Ok, turns out the HFW misses out a couple of steps in the process there. Sigh. On the plus side, I've just done one of the missing steps, and it is now much *more* like mozzarella than it was!
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(Also, as it happens, hop vodka: a chance comment on TKC last week, combined with the hops being just ready to pick: I've done two experimental bottles, one with fresh and one with dried, and expect to present them to beer-drinkers of my acquaintance to see how revolted / pleased they look when they taste it.)
This afternoon, we took Jo for a run on the beach and, when we got back, I attempted mozzarella. I seem to have actually produced rather elaborate, smooth cottage cheese, but I'm not sure where I went wrong. Certainly, now that I look at other sets of instructions with actual photos, the liquid that I had left after the curds separated was too cloudy. I did think that that was the case and leave it a little longer to see if it separated more, though, and it didn't. I guess I'll have to find some other instructions and try again.
Edit: Ok, turns out the HFW misses out a couple of steps in the process there. Sigh. On the plus side, I've just done one of the missing steps, and it is now much *more* like mozzarella than it was!
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