Prep Time: 30 minutes - 1 hour | Cook Time: 2 - 3 hours | Serves: 12
Dessert » Pies » American
Ingredients:
For this, we�re gonna make some ricotta. Yeah, make some. Come to find out, it�s wicked easy.
How to make Ricotta Cheese
You�ll need:
1/2 gallon whole milk
1 pint ****ermilk
cheesecloth, a colander or large sieve, a heatproof bowl to rest the colander in, and a meat thermometer would be handy.
Note that I had made 2 versions of homemade ricotta � 1 with milk, cream and lemon juice, which gave me a very low yield. This method, with ****ermilk, was much easier and yielded more ricotta. However, this recipe on its own did not give me enough to make the pie later (this will yield about a pound), so you�ll probably want to increase this by half if you want to make enough ricotta for the pie.
Here�s a picture of the milks, seems unnecessary but meh.