Artisan Cheese Making Class comes to the Northern Tier

The Endless Mountains RC&D Council and its partners are pleased to announce an “Artisan Cheese Making Class” on March 23-25, 2011 at the Tioga County Fairgrounds, Whitneyville.

The instructor is the well know Peter Dixon from Dairy Food Consulting located in Vermont. The workshop is appropriate for all levels of home and commercial cheese makers. Topics during the three-day workshop will include starting a creamery, properties of cow and goat milk and their use in cheese making, choosing starter cultures, making lactic curd, mozzarella, ricotta, and aged cheeses, cheese brining, cheese aging, and information about equipment and facilities. For more information about the instructor, visit his website at http://www.dairyfoodsconsulting.com/. 

Registration cost for PA residents of Bradford, Lycoming, Susquehanna Sullivan, Tioga, and Wyoming Counties is $100, all others is $350.  The cost of registration covers instruction, course manual, and lunch each day.  Registration for the workshop will close on March 9th.  A block of rooms has been reserved at the Comfort Inn in Mansfield, reservations must be made by November 28th.   

For more information contact the Endless Mountains RC&D Council at 570-265-5288, ext. 118.