Also, in a pinch are the grocery
store organic cow milk kefirs just as heallthy as making your own?
Every new attempt at reintroducing grocery
store organic cows milk seems to create more severe of a reaction each time.
Not exact matches
Here in upstate New York (The Hudson Valley actually) we are lucky to have at least 3 local dairies that produce quarts of wonderful
ORGANIC whole
milk yogurt (from sheep or
cows) easily found in the local co-ops & farm
stores.
Ingredients: 2 cups whole, raw,
organic milk from grass - fed
cows 1 cup
organic cream, raw is best, but at least not UHT (ultra-pasteurized) 3 egg yolks from pastured chickens (I don't recommend
store - bought eggs be eaten raw) 2 TBL, or to taste, real maple syrup 2 tsp pure,
organic vanilla extract Pinch of cinnamon and nutmeg OR pumpkin pie spice Dash of unrefined sea salt
This A1 protein causes digestive discomfort and is in all
cows»
milk in -
stores today, even
organic milk.
Pasture - raised eggs from farmer's markets or look for Vital Farms and Frenz's in the health food
store Raw whole
milk, or
organic whole
milk from grass - fed
cows and not homogenized
Organic whole
milk plain yogurt (from grass - fed
cows) Raw cream or
organic cream, preferably from grass - fed
cows, and not ultra-pasteurized Raw butter or
organic butter from grass - fed
cows Clarified butter or ghee Grass - fed raw cheese Flax seed oil Sesame seed oil Bubbie's pickles Homemade sauerkraut, or Bubbie's in markets (other brands are pasteurized).
Can you
store the kefir grains in almond
milk, or does it have to be
organic cow's / goat's
milk?
Whole pasteurized non-homogenized
milk from
cows raised on
organic feed is now available in many gourmet shops and health food
stores.
It's a misdirection to discuss
cow's
milk generically — we should NEVER be talking about commercially available
cow's
milk — at the very least, we must talk about
organic cow's
milk as the
milk commonly available in the grocery
store is an unacceptable option, full of indigestible proteins and sterilized pus!
So an average consumer walking into a grocery
store would have no way of knowing which
milk came from hormone - altered
cows and which didn't (unless the consumer chose certified -
organic milk, which is always free of synthetic hormones).