THRIVING after the FALL
Book One FEASTING after the FALL

The Menu · Cheese board

Fresh goat cheese with honey

Served in The Evening, course 9: The cheese board: the aged wheel, the bloomy rind, fresh goat cheese with honey.

Goats and sheep Bees, honey and wax Milk, butter and cheese

Its documents

The chapters that use them

In the log

The claims that cite its documents, the safety rows first.

  • A68 amended Safety Acorns and oak leaves kill sheep (kidney); goats eat them without harm
  • A69 amended Safety Q fever precautions: cloth over mouth at every birth, afterbirth and bedding buried in quicklime or ash, milk for the vulnerable held half an hour at a heat …
  • M1 amended Safety Milk for the vulnerable: 63 °C held 30 min with stirring; the finger cue for 63 °C; raw-milk hazards (Coxiella, Listeria, Brucella, E. coli O157)
  • M2 amended Safety Strip cup test; milk from a flaky, clotted or bloody quarter is never used for cheese
  • M3 amended Safety Milk at body heat doubles its bacteria every 20 min; keeps 2 days at 10 °C, most of a week at 4 °C
  • D12 amended Safety Bee stings: not in this draft, but the Bench sends readers to the bee document's colony numbers without a sting warning; consider adding
  • A62 confirmed Cattle at 650 kg compact and destabilise sand; small ruminants preferred on the sand
  • A63 confirmed Thüringer Wald Ziege bred c. 1900 from Thuringian forest goats and Toggenburg; 700 to 900 kg per lactation by breed, c. 580 by 137's own curve; 3.5 to 3.9 per …
  • A64 confirmed Bunte Deutsche Edelziege standard 1928; goat milk fat globules half the cow's size, no agglutinin, no cream line; a fifth of fat short-chain
  • A65 confirmed Rauhwolliges Pommersches Landschaf 60 kg, 1.5 lambs, 3 to 5 kg wool, 80 to 120 kg milk at 18 to 20 per cent solids after weaning; Skudde 40 kg, heath sheep of …
  • A66 confirmed Household of 4 does and 6 ewes: c. 2,800 l milk, 220 to 260 kg dressed meat, 18 to 24 kg wool, 6 to 8 kids and 8 to 10 lambs, c. 1,010 h a year, 4.5 ha …
  • A67 confirmed Sand pasture 1,800 to 2,800 kg DM/ha unimproved, 3,800 to 4,800 with plantain, chicory, trefoil, burnet; winter feeding 215 days; tree hay a third of a goat's …
  • A70 confirmed Thaer to Möglin 1804; Frankenfelde royal sheepfold 1816 with Hardenberg; Koppe on the Eckardstein estates and in the Oderbruch; the Gemeindeschäfer and the …
  • A71 confirmed 137's village of 300: 45 to 50 does, 150 to 160 ewes, 45 to 60 ha heath, 40 to 50 ha hay, 15 ha hedge, 2 shepherds, c. 5,800 h; 100 ml goat milk a head a day, …
  • A72 confirmed Goat milking 70 to 90 strokes a minute, pre-dip thyme and sage, post-dip sour whey with tallow or rosin, canal open 30 min, healthy milk pH 6.4 to 6.7; buck …
  • A73 confirmed Kid colostrum 50 ml per kg within 2 h, absorption nearly done by 4 h; navel cut to a finger's length and 30 s in iodine; assist after 45 min of straining
  • A80 partly confirmed Hedersleben 1865: 337 ill, 101 dead from one pig; untreated trichinellosis case fatality 15 to 30 per cent; 148's cow (6 t milk, 490 kg beef on 1.5 ha) is …
  • M16 confirmed Cow on grass and hay 4,000 to 6,000 litres a year; goat 700 to 1,000
  • M17 confirmed 10 litres of cow's milk to 1 kg hard cheese, 6 of ewe's; a cow's year as 200 kg cheese and 100 kg butter; cheese 3,000 to 4,000 kcal/kg and a week's calcium
  • M40 confirmed Goat's cheese: 10 l, 150 ml whey, 90 min, 3 to 4 drops rennet (a scant teaspoon of home-made), 24 h, drain 24 h, 120 g, 2 % salt with beech ash, 10 days at 85 …
  • D35 confirmed Zeidlerei: Slavic tree apiaries in Lower Lusatia by the 10th century (965); the word from a verb meaning to cut; the rope loop climbing method; Charles IV's …
  • D36 confirmed Nickel Jacob, furrier of Sprottau, 1568, first practical German bee book, workers raise a queen from an ordinary egg
  • D37 confirmed Johann Grüwel, mayor of Kremmen, Brandenburgische Bewährte Bienen-Kunst 1719, "Streusandbüchse", straw hives behind screens, willow in April, heath in August
  • D38 partly confirmed A Brandenburg colony without sugar or medicine makes about 20 kg a year, needs 18 to 20 kg for winter, keeper takes 10 to 14 kg and a kilogram of wax, loses …