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Mary Had A Little Lamb And We We Do Too, His Name is Briden

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Briden at 10 Days Old

Not sure I’ll ever bring a Bottle Baby, Kid or Lamb, in the house again! The past ten days has left me feeling like getting a vasectomy! I’m not even the Father! Listening to a baby Lamb scream, like a baby, is hard on the head! Having poopy floors, puddles, and wet feet! Frustrating! 2am and 6am Feedings! Argh! Imagine!

While all of that is hard on the head, and makes me wonder how, or why, anyone has kids! Two or Four Legged!

However, in those little moments, when He is at His cutest, and looks at You cause He’s imprinted on You and you’re now His Mother! Those Moments! Those are the Moments that make it all worth it! I Guess?

This video, hopefully, captures a few of those moments from the first ten days of Briden’s life…

Soon enough, all the negatives will be a distant memory, and Briden will rejoin the flock out n Spring Pastures in Rotational, Electric Fencing. Fencing We’ll probably get from Vevor.

Garden Potatoes, Pastured Pork Belly, Chow, and Sourdough Bread

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Garden Potaoes, Pastured Pork, and Sourdough Bread

Notice the date of this Post, 29 Feb 2024, and We’re still eating out of the Garden! Even though the Garden is long gone, Potatoes are one of those things that last for months when properly stored. Chow, made from Green Tomatoes harvested last Summer, keeps well in the Pickle Jars. Our Pastured Pork, and this Pork Belly, is so succulent and tasty, it’s incredible. The Sourdough Bread, made from our own Starter, who we call John Dough, is just the right contrast to the potatoes and the sweetness of the meat and chow.I also want to take a moment to acknowledge our friend, Sandy, for making the Chow! Made from our Fresh Green Garden Tomatoes last Summer, with our help, but so nice of Sandy to help us.  Knowing, that tomorrow is March 1st, and we have leftovers, means we will have eaten during nine months of the Year from last Year’s Garden!

We Made Butter From Whey and Wish We had Way More!

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Goat Milk Butter

Recently we made Cheese from our Goat Milk, and a little Colostrum! Yes, even Colostrum makes great Cheese! When we make Cheese, we start with Milk, or Colostrum, usually Milk, and as we process it the Milk is separated in Curds and Whey! Yes, just like Little Miss Muffet we eat our Curds and Whey! 

Normally when you Make Butter, you use Cream and that is usually made from Cow’s Milk, because it is easier to separate the Cream from The Milk. When You milk a Cow the Cream rises to the top of the milk and you simply skim it off and use it. Goat Milk is naturally Homogenized, meaning the Milk and Cream are naturally combined. To separate Cream from Goat Milk you need to let it sit, and after a few days the cream will slowly rise to the top.

Till recently, when we had a happy accident, or happy discovery, depending on which way you look at it. See, after separating the Curds and Whey, after having used the Curds for making Cheese, we sat the Whey aside to use it as a base for a Chowder. For a few days, and maybe a little longer, we let the whey is in our cold-room. When we were ready to use it, we noticed something, sort of like a white, floating, disc was sitting on top of our Whey! Much to our surprise we had discovered that You can Make Butter from Whey!

Making Sourdough Pancakes

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Sourdough Pancakes Batter

As someone recently pointed out, We’re really rather Cultured here at Briden Farm! What with our rekindled passion for making Sourdough Starter, and using the Discard for everything from Crumpets to Sourdough Pancakes, as well as our recent stint of Cheese Making, I guess I have to agree! In fact, as I’m writing this I’m also sipping a Tea and eating a nice piece of Toast with some really nice Briden Farm made Goat Milk Butter!

So, I thought You might like to see these beautiful Sourdough Pancakes!

Sourdough Pancakes

Made from our Sourdough Starter who We’ve dubbed, John Dough! Of Course!

We always tweak our recipes using Watkins Flavours and Extracts, like the Maple for making a Syrup!

We borrowed, and adapted, the Recipe from King Arthur and wish They Shipped to Canada!


 

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