Beginners Cheese Making at Home

Learn how to make your own buttermilk ricotta, yoghurt, labneh, cultured butter, creme fraiche and ghee at home.

Learn how to make buttermilk ricotta, yoghurt, labne, cultured butter, creme fraiche and ghee.

Slowing down and making things from scratch really is a simple pleasure. And with a few ingredients, you can create a collection of kitchen staples, allowing you to be in control of what you put in your food and encourage you to reduce the amount of waste in your kitchen.
In this hands-on cheese making class, Kristen will show you how to make crème fraiche which we will churn into cultured butter. We’ll use the leftover buttermilk to make the most decadent buttermilk ricotta and you’ll learn how to turn butter into a deliciously nutty flavoured ghee.

Kristen will also show you all the tricks to making yoghurt, without the additives or nasty thickeners, and finally, you’ll learn how to hang yoghurt to make labne.

Course details

Sun 26th Feb
10am – 3pm

CERES Brunswick, corner of Roberts & Stewart Streets, Brunswick East, Victoria

$240*
Concession available

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Trainer profile

A pioneer, leader and respected authority in the cheese industry, Kristen Allan has spent over 17 years immersing herself in the techniques and flavours of the ancient art of cheese making.

Kristen’s cheese is in great demand, supplying the likes of Annie Smither’s restaurant Du Fermier, Ester, Fred’s and Aria and has been a regular stallholder for some years at Carriageworks. Her recipes have been featured in various food magazines and publications including Gourmet Traveller & Cornersmith’s cookbooks.

In 2018, Kristen was nominated for a Delicious Produce award, a testament to her philosophy of slow, carefully hand crafted cheese, using only high quality ingredients. Her buttermilk ricotta has a cult-like following around Sydney and her cheese is revered Australia-wide.

Establishing herself in the echelons of the food world and as one of Australia’s leading cheese educators, she is a regular teacher at Daylesford Longhouse, Cornersmith and Moonacres cooking school.

Kristen is an accomplished speaker. One of her most prized achievements in 2018, when she was asked to present at the feminist talks and ideas festival ‘All About Women’, becoming the first person to make cheese at the Sydney Opera House.”