Fun Along The Whey

Since 1978 we have been sharing the joy of home cheese making. With over 100 step by step cheese making recipes, helpful guides and easy to use supplies it's fun and easy to make cheese at home.

Recipes with CheeseCheese Cookie Appetizers - 5 Wheys!

Cheese Cookie Appetizers - 5 Wheys!

We love it when you share your recipes with us! Cateland White in Las Vegas, Nevada sent us this one and it was so good, we had to try it in as many different ways as we could. Cateland told us ...

Our CompanyOur Holiday Party with the Veterans

Our Holiday Party with the Veterans

Lynn and Ricki – don’t ask! This year we carried on with our tradition of inviting the veterans who work on our team (assembling our kits, etc) to come from their workshop in Leeds* to our shop i...

Recipes with CheesePeanut Cookies by Lynne Dyer

Peanut Cookies by Lynne Dyer

As promised, this is the third recipe from the Historic Deerfield King Arthur Baking Competition. There were 3 prizes – my Candy Canes for Best Story, Barbara Keegan’s Date Bars for Most Creative...

Recipes with CheeseDate Bars by Barbara Keegan

Date Bars by Barbara Keegan

The topping was hard to cut, so I sort of hacked them up. Do any of you know a solution for that? As Made by Margaret “Peggy” Flaherty Keegan, 1921-1966 A couple of weeks ago, the winners of the ...

Fellow Cheese MakersCandy Cane Cookies

Candy Cane Cookies

I won for “Best Story” in the King Arthur’s Heritage Baking Contest at Old Deerfield, MA!!! Thank you, thank you very much! I promised in my previous article – King Arthur Meets the Cheese Queen...

Cheese Making RecipeChocolate Neufchatel by Ed Jefferis

Chocolate Neufchatel by Ed Jefferis

My wife, Judi, and I live in Oxford, Pennsylvania which is an hour south of Philadelphia. Oxford is a small rural town, close to Lancaster, Pennsylvania and we have a number of Amish neighbors. ...

Fellow Cheese MakersImran Saleh - Changing the Culture of Pakistan

Imran Saleh - Changing the Culture of Pakistan

Can you imagine how exciting it would be to become the first artisan cheese maker in your entire country?! Imran Saleh lives and thrives in that excitement every day. He has relentlessly (and a...

Fellow Cheese MakersGoat Lady Dairy For Sale

Goat Lady Dairy For Sale

Here’s an opportunity for you! If you’ve been thinking about taking a big leap into your future, this might be the time to buy an award-winning goat dairy in North Carolina. Goat Lady has won man...

Fellow Cheese MakersKing Arthur Meets the Cheese Queen

King Arthur Meets the Cheese Queen

I have a confession to make. I am one of those awful women who guards her recipes and no matter how much a friend might beg, I will not give it out. Ever. This is hard to admit and sad to say, ...

Fellow Cheese MakersTatiana Thomas in Russia

Tatiana Thomas in Russia

It isn’t every day that we hear from a home cheese maker in Russia! And it isn’t every day that we correspond with a fascinating a young woman (34) who has won writing competitions and traveled t...

Our CompanyWe Appreciate Our Team of Veterans

We Appreciate Our Team of Veterans

Ricki and Victor Rivera It’s been 6 years since the Cheese Queen first heard about a program for veterans called the Compensated Work Therapy Workshop. She contacted the VA Central Western Massa...

Tips3 Reasons to Sell Your Homemade Cheese & 1 Reason Not To

3 Reasons to Sell Your Homemade Cheese & 1 Reason Not To

Farmer’s market in Shongweni, South Africa. Photo courtesy of EatOut You started making cheese and you love it. Your family loves it, your friends love it, your assorted holiday gift list loves ...

Fellow Cheese makersI Struck Gold on Etsy!

I Struck Gold on Etsy!

How This Began I loved the whole idea of Etsy when I first heard about it (over 5 years ago). In case you don’t know about it – Etsy is the website where artists and crafters sell their wares. W...

Fellow Cheese MakersBarbara Crudale in West Kingston, RI

Barbara Crudale in West Kingston, RI

Why do they call it a “hobby farm” when it’s so much hard work? A hobby is an activity you do at your leisure and raising goats is not that! Fortunately, Barbara and her husband have 4 sons to h...

Recipes with CheeseCool Crispy Cheese Bowls!

Cool Crispy Cheese Bowls!

This was quite possibly the most fun I have ever had in the kitchen! I was having a little dinner party (5) and I wanted to try making cheese crisps – those little round ones you put in salads. ...

Aging Cheese10 Tips for Aging Your Natural Rind Cheeses

10 Tips for Aging Your Natural Rind Cheeses

“Little Darling Tomme” from DiBruno Bros. Or, as the song might go, “We’re just a flippin and a rubbin…” Natural rinds – that sounds so easy – just you and your cheese growing old together with n...

Aging CheeseCan You Age Your Cheese in Clay?!

Can You Age Your Cheese in Clay?!

OK, you can call me crazy but I’m serious. And I don’t know the answer. I’m just hoping one of you will. (If anyone is doing it successfuly, I will certainly try it.) This all began with a thread...

IngredientsMore About Fig Sap "Rennet"

More About Fig Sap "Rennet"

Photo courtesy of All Remedies 4 years ago, I posted an article I thought was whey out in left field – Making Rennet From Fig Sap?!! Our company sells a wide variety of rennets, but none of the...

EventsMassachusetts Cheese Festival, 2015

Massachusetts Cheese Festival, 2015

Sunday, October 11, 2015 1-5pm, The Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont Street We are SO happy about the activities the Massachusetts Cheese Guild has been hosting! We have k...

TipsMaking Huntsman Cheese

Making Huntsman Cheese

Huntsman is a British cheese made by combining Double Gloucester with Stilton. When you first look at this cheese, you wonder-how can they possibly age a mold-ripened cheese inside a semi-hard ch...

Fellow Cheese MakersTim Bisson's Chocolate Chili Provolone

Tim Bisson's Chocolate Chili Provolone

Tim Bisson in Siletz, Oregon loves to make cheese (almost as much as he loves his dogs!). He recently started a new business making collars and leather goods, so, if you’re in the market, be sure...

Recipes with CheeseFromagina Stuffed Dates

Fromagina Stuffed Dates

These amazing morsels are always served with lunch at the Cheese Queens workshops and boy are they delicious. Each time a plateful is set out it’s gone in the blink of an eye because, you literally...

Cheese Making RecipeLapte Acru, Moldovan Yogurt

Lapte Acru, Moldovan Yogurt

Recently, there was an article in our local newspaper (click here) about a Moldovan woman who is making yogurt here in the United States the way she did in Eastern Europe. The article (by Richie ...

Our CompanyCheese Queen Testifies at GMO Hearing

Cheese Queen Testifies at GMO Hearing

Tuesday, September 22nd Ricki traveled to our Massachusetts Statehouse in Boston for the public hearing on a bill which would require labeling of GMO (genetically modified) products. This is not ...

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