Goat Milk

What makes this fudge have a nice soft texture is the thickness. This recipe is to churn up  a thick fudge “cubes”.  And this fudge is make  as “healthy” as possible by using fresh goat milk and all organic ingredients.

• 9 Tablespoon Cocoa
• 4 Cups Cane Juice Crystals (you could use regular sugar)
• 1 1/2 Cups Fresh Goat Milk
• 2 Tablespoon Corn Syrup
• 1/2 Cup Butter (4 oz)
• 2 teaspoon. Vanilla
• 1/4 teaspoon. Sea Salt
• 1 to 1 1/2 Cups Walnuts

Directions:

• In a large pan mix the sugar and cocoa.  Use a pan 4X bigger than you think you need because this will boil up high as it is cooking.
• Add the goat milk and corn syrup. Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring gently.  Continue cooking and stirring occasionally over medium low heat, until it reaches the soft ball stage ( 234°).
• Remove from heat and add butter but, Do Not Stir.
• Cool, without stirring to 150°.  Add vanilla and salt.  Stir well to incorporate butter. Once all is combined, add the walnuts.  Stir vigorously until the fudge thickens and looses it’s gloss. Quickly spread into buttered 8″x 8″ pan.
• When cool, cut into cube sized pieces with a lightly butter knife. Enjoy!

Nutrition Facts:

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Not having an ice cream maker, nor time to crank one will not hinder you from churning up your favorite ice cream. You can make sort of a shortcut ice cream that no one whines about and it can be  served as a thick milk shake as well.

If you do like to try this, just whip a teaspoonful of vanilla and as much sweetener as you like into a quart of fresh goat milk. Put the bowl into the freezer with a cover on it. You can use a saucer if you do not have a cover. When it is starting to freeze, take it out and beat it very well with a hand mixer or a blender. Put back into the freezer until almost frozen. Take out and mix well again. Back into the freezer until as hard as you  like. More often then not we cannot wait any longer and eat it like soft serve ice cream or add a bit of milk and beat it well, making milk shakes.

Of course, like the yogurt, you can add as much or as little as you want in the way of flavorings. Fruits, jam, chocolate, chocolate chips, or even marshmallows and nuts all can be incorporated into the nearly frozen ice cream. You can also add almond, black walnut, or whatever extract you desire. Then there are banana splits, sundaes with fresh fruits like  blueberries, strawberries, and raspberries with cream or syrup made from them.

So, next time when your family request for  ice cream,  churning out these delicious ice cream take so little time and easy that you can master and do it more often, so Enjoy!

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Besides consuming goats milk daily, goats milk is also used to make soap.

What are the benefits of goat milk soap?

Skin Care

Goat milk soap gives a rich creamy feel and will leave your skin feeling very soft. Most people with problem skin, eczema (atopic dermatitis), acne, psoriasis and other sensitive skin find that after using goat milk soap their skin condition improve. The soap will clean and not irritate your skin.

One of the most popular additives to goat milk soap is  handmade soap. And rightly so. Goat Milk is a natural emollient that helps soothe and moisturize the skin. It contains vitamins A, B6, B12 and E. Goat milk has 3 times more beta-casein than cow milk. Caseins are easily absorbed into the skin and allow for quick hydration of dry skin. The content of triglycerides, capric, caprylic and caproic acid helps balance the skin’s natural pH and promotes natural exfoliation of dry skin.

Scented or fragrant goat milk soaps are like Floral, Oatmeal, Spice and Fruit Fragrances. Special Dermatological and Manuka Honey (unscented soaps) goat milk soaps are for people forced to use soap substitutes or very neutral soaps because of allergies or skin sensitive to perfumes. According to a survey, the demand for such soaps make up almost half of all sales.  Dermatologists commented that unscented goat milk soaps are particularly good for patients with skin problems because they leave no residue on the skin. These problems include eczema, dermatitis, psoriasis and infant eczema.

There are basically three ways to incorporate goat milk into your soaps however, each works a bit differently.

1. Fresh goat milk
2. Powdered goat milk
3. Canned/ Evaporated goat milk

Handmade Natural Goat Milk Soap Recipe

Handmade soap is akin to rediscovering the traditional value of doing things yourself, doing them naturally, and enjoying the benefits.

Making soap of any kind is fairly simple. Goat milk soap is no exception. Homemade soap can be a welcome addition to anyone bathing routine, especially for someone with sensitive skin.

Goat milk soap is a very moisturizing, soft soap and not that difficult to make. Follow some simple instructions and make goat milk soap for home use or to give away as gifts.

Lye and Borax are available at the grocery stores, make sure that the lye can states 100 per cent lye. Before you buy the lye, shake the can and listen to it to make sure it is free flowing for easy handling, and has no lumps in it. Borax – this boots cleaning ability, soften the water and helps with suds-ing. Liquid Glycerin is available at drug stores. Glycerin gives the soap more moisturizing qualities.

Lye heats the milk up very hot; the sugar in the milk will “caramelize” and the soap will be tan in color. Soap made with 100% lard will not lather a whole lot, but make a good cleaning, very gentle, moisturizing soap. Lathering and cleaning ability have nothing to do with one another.

Ingredients:

• 3 pints of ice cold goat milk
• 1 12 oz. can of Red Devil Lye
• 5 1/2 pounds of lard
• 2 oz. glycerin
• 2 Tablespoon borax
• 1/3 Cup Honey

Instructions:

*Cautions, wear rubber gloves when handling lye.

Use a stainless steel pot for your soap making. Very slowly pour the lye into the ice cold milk, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon. The milk will heat up very quickly due to the addition of the lye. If you add the lye too fast, the milk may scorch and curdle. The milk will turn an orange color and curdle a little bit but do not worry, add the honey. Let the mixture cool down to 85°.

While the lye and milk mixture is cooling, warm the lard to 90°. Slowly pour the lard into the lye and milk mixture, stirring constantly, and add the glycerin and borax.

The best thing to stir soap with is an electric hand held “stick blender” because you really need to stir the soap mixture to get it to “trace”. The slower your stirring is, the longer it will take to trace. You cannot just stop or go away and let it sit because if you do not stir constantly, the soap will never “trace”.

Add the glycerin and borax and keep stirring until the mixture starts to thicken like thin pudding nice “traces”. The mixture “traces” when a small amount of the solution drizzled across the top of the main solution’s surface leaves a faint pattern before sinking back into the mass. A trace should be reached within 10 to 20 minutes of hand stirring, or 5 to 10 minutes of stirring with a “stick blender”.

Add any essential oils you wish to add to the soap at this point. Stir it in well.

Pour the mixture into your molds. Cover the top of the molds with a cloth such as cheesecloth and then cover it with a blanket. Leave it undisturbed overnight.

The next day you can cut the soap into bars using fishing line. Stack the bars on a cookie sheet lined with a large paper bag. It is not ready to use yet; the mixture needs to saponify and cure. Let the soap cure by air-drying it for at least 6 weeks before using or giving away.

Handmade Organic Goat Milk Soap Recipe

Since I posted a topic about the benefits of goat milk soap, I have been asked “Do you have homemade milk based soap recipe for beginners?” After experimenting a few shortcuts, I recommend this simple Organic Goat Milk Soap recipe.

What are the benefits of  organic goat milk soap?

Organic goat milk soap offers a natural and less-abrasive form of cleansing bar. And organic goat milk soap aids in the treatment of mild to moderate acne.

Recipe:

Light essential oil scent can be added to the soap and oatmeal mix, if desired. The recipe yields approximately 12 bars of organic soap.

Ingredients:

• 15 oz. organic olive oil
• 5 oz. organic palm oil
• 5 oz. organic coconut oil
• 3.5 oz. lye
• 8 oz. goat milk
• 1/2 cup organic oatmeal
• 1 oz. lavender or lilac essential oil for fragrance (optional)
• Soap molds

*Cautions, wear rubber gloves when handling lye.

Instructions :

• Purchase molds. Chocolate or candy-making molds are permissible for use in soap making. Do not reuse molds for chocolate making once used in the soap making process.
• Combine 1/2 cup organic oatmeal with 1 oz. fragrance oil, and set aside. Lavender scent is recommended.
• Mix all remaining soap base materials together in a stainless steel bowl.
• Heat inside a slow cooker on medium heat until melting occurs. Do not reuse the slow cooker for food preparation.
• Mix fragrance mixture into the slow cooker.
• Pour soap mix into molds once it is warm enough to handle safely.
• Cool soap mix for 24 hours. Remover from molds and use. Clean molds with warm water, dry and store.

I love making this organic goat milk soap recipe because it is easy, good for your acne skin and shows my love for goats.

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