Goat Milk

Recipe can makes about 3 cups of  ice  cream.  It is easy and anyone can master it.

• 11/2 cups Goat Milk

• 2/3 cup Sugar

• 4 ounces Fresh Goat Cheese

• 6 Egg Yolks

1. Warm the goat milk and sugar in a medium saucepan. While the milk is warming, crumble the goat cheese into a large bowl and set a mesh strainer on top.

2. In a separate medium bowl, whisk together the egg yolks. Slowly pour the warm mixture into the egg yolks, whisking constantly, then scrape the warmed egg yolks back into the saucepan.

3. Stir the mixture constantly over medium heat with a heatproof spatula, scraping the bottom as you stir, until the mixture thickens and coats the spatula. Pour the custard through the strainer and stir it into the goat cheese. Keep stirring until the cheese is melted, then stir until cool over an ice bath.

4. Chill the mixture thoroughly in the refrigerator, then freeze it in your ice cream maker according to the manufacturer’s instructions.

COMPOSITION OF GOAT MILK IN COMPARISON WITH COW AND HUMAN MILK

The composition of goat milk is given in the following table which shows that the goat milk is quite similar in composition to cow and human milk but there are some obvious exceptions.

Average vitamin content of goat, cow and human milk.

(1)Vitamin A expressed in International Units/liter; all others as mg/liter.
(2) Numbers in ( ) are from the USDA Handbook 8-1 (1976).