The Whole Goat Handbook: Recipes, Cheese, Soap, Crafts & More

by Janet Hurst

Overview

Goats are the hottest animal today to raise for hobby farmers, commercial farmers, and members of both 4-H and FFA.

But using the products from a goat requires special skills, handling, and recipes. Here’s The Whole Goat Handbook, chock full of recipes, crafting projects, advice, and more.

Cooking with goat meat requires special, adapted recipes because the meat is so strong in flavor; there’s no devoted goat-meat cookbook on the market—until now! Included are recipes for making cheese with goat milk as well as goat-milk soap. And for those raising goats for fiber, here are hard-won recommendations on crafting,  knitting, and weaving. This book will shows you how to do all this—and more.

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780760342367
Publisher:	Harvard Common Press
Publication date:	01/14/2013
Edition description:	First
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Janet Hurst has been a home artisanal cheesemaker for twenty years and is a certified cheesemaker through the University of Vermont's Institute of Artisan Cheese. She writes on cheesemaking for Mother Earth News, Mary Jane's Farm, Dairy Goat Journal, Countryside, and more.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

1 Goat Basics: Fact and Fiction 8

2 Goats for Milk 20

3 Cheesemaking with Goat Milk 42

4 Goats for Meat 76

5 The Art of Cooking Goat Meat 90

6 Goats for Fiber 108

7 Fiber Projects 122

8 Goat-Milk Soap and Lotions 178

Resources 187

Acknowledgments 189

Index 190