How to make raw, enzyme and probiotic-rich liquid whey to use as a starter culture for all your home fermentation needs.
Do you know how to make whey from yogurt, kefir or raw milk?
A by-product of this simple technique is healthy homemade cream cheese that is loaded with enzymes and probiotics.
The recipe below describes how with visual instructions via video demonstration!
Making homemade baby formula? I recommend using this โquick wheyโ no straining method as the fastest and easiest approach.
How to Make Whey the REAL Way
Making real, liquid, nutrient rich, unadulterated whey in your own kitchen is a MUST step for any traditional cook to learn.
Without whey in its whole, liquid form, many other traditional recipes cannot even be attempted. ย You cannot buy whey from the store except in a denatured, unhealthy, powdered whey form. It is worth your time to learn what I show you in the video below.
Other video lessons on this blog show you how to use this whole food form of whey to make many delicious, healthful recipes for your family. ย Whey as made in the video demo below will keep up to 6 months in the refrigerator in a sealed mason jar.
If you absolutely have no access to farm fresh milk to make whole, unadulterated, enzyme rich whey, then you can use plain, organic yogurt brand from the store instead. Here are tips on how to spot the best yogurt brands.
The process is basically exactly the same thing as shown in the video.
You wonโt get nearly as much whey using yogurt as clabbered, farm fresh milk, but at least you can get enough to get you started.
Wonderful Whey and REAL Cream Cheese
The raw, enzyme-rich cream cheese I make in the recipe video below is fantastic on a sprouted or sourdough bagel for breakfast. Donโt buy the Ezekiel sprouted muffins as they contain soy. This low-carb bagel recipe is another great one to try.
If you prefer to buy, these sourdough bagels are available for shipping freshly made to your door.
To make, just take your cream cheese left over from making liquid whey and add a few strawberries and a dash of dark maple syrup to taste. Mix together by pulsing a few times in your food processor. This wonderful, fresh, REAL strawberry cream cheese will last one to two weeks in the refrigerator. ย Another wonderful use for this healthy raw cheese is to make an easyย no bake cheesecake.
No access to raw milk where you live? No problem. Check out this recipe plus video on how to separate whey from yogurtย purchased from the store.
Cloudy Whey vs Clear Whey
No matter whether your whey turns out cloudy or clear, it is safe and fine to use in all your favorite recipes. This article explains why sometimesย whey is cloudy compared to its usual golden color.
Raw Whey Recipe
How to separate raw, liquid whey from clabbered milk. The process also creates probiotic rich cream cheese.
Ingredients
- 1 quart raw milk preferably grassfed
- 1 large glass bowl
- 1 large rubber band
- 1 white dishtowel
Instructions
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Allow the raw milk to sit on the counter for 1-3 days at room temperature.ย
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When the milk separates into curds and whey (transforms into clabbered milk) you are ready to proceed. Note that the fresher the raw milk and the colder the temperature of your house, the longer it will take the raw milk to clabber.
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Line a clean, large glass bowl with a clean, white dishtowel that isnโt too thick. Cheesecloth will also work, but the holes in the mesh must be very small, else the milk curds will pass through.
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Gently pour the clabbered milk into the middle of the dish towel. Gather up the ends and fasten with a rubber band. Attach to a knob on an upper cabinet in your kitchen as shown in the picture.
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Let the raw whey drip into the bowl underneath. This process will continue for an hour or two.
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After the dripping stops, gently take down the hanging bag and place it into a clean bowl. Scrape out the raw cream cheese that is inside the bag, put in a container with a lid and refrigerate.
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Pour the liquid whey from the dripping bowl into a glass mason jar, afix the lid and refrigerate.ย
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Refrigerated, raw cream cheese will be good to eat for about a week. Raw whey will last several months refrigerated.
Recipe Video
How to Useย Whey in Recipes
How to Make Ricottaย Three Ways (plus Video How-to)
Perfect Probiotic Cottage Cheese
Cheese Making: ย Common Problems and Solutions
I live in Tanzania, East Africa and the raw milk I get isn’t clean enough to use without boiling it. Would this clabbering method still work with milk that I have boiled? Any suggestions on a healthy way to sterilize the milk without losing any nutrients?
Unfortunately, once milk is boiled, it cannot be clabbered. However, you can make it into yogurt and then strain the whey out of the yogurt in the same way. Here’s a video on that: https://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/separating-whey-plain-store-yogurt/
Is the whey and clabbered milk safe to use if left out longer than 24 hours? I was doing this but it didn’t clabber in 24 hours probably because my house was cold but then I forgot about it for several days until I was going to make the cheesecake.so I’m checking to see if it’ll still be safe to use both
It is likely fine unless it has mold on it. If it doesn’t have mold, it still may be far too strong tasting to make cheesecake. Your call.
Hi Sarah, I’m using this recipe to get whey to make my non dairy baby formula. Just so I’m clear, the raw milk needs to be bad/soured to start the process? Thank you so much for your recipes!!!
Raw milk sours and then clabbers into a drinkable yogurt like consistency. It doesn’t go “bad” like pasteurized milk does. You can’t consume pasteurized milk when it has gone bad. You CAN consume raw milk after it sours and clabbers.
Hello!
Questions,
What would be the difference is using whey from raw milk and raw milk kefir? In the nourishing tradition baby book said make make from kefir or yogurt. Why not from raw milk?
Any one of the 3 is better for formula and easier to digest?
Is it harder for baby to digest drinking whey from yogurt because it’s pasteurized vs raw milk clabbered milk or kefir.
Raw milk whey?
Raw milk kefir whey ?
Pasteurized yogrt whey?
Thank you,
Adrian
You can use whey from clabbered raw milk.
Can you just leave your raw milk in the refrigerator to separate on it own into whey and cream cheese for a couple of months instead of putting it on the counter in room temperature for 24 hours? Is it any good at this point?
Thanks
Im not sure of the source of raw milk, will turning the raw milk to yogurt make it safe from salmonella or other harmful bacteria? Presuming that i dont heat the milk before adding the yogurt culture…
Hi Sarah, if i turn the raw non-organic milk to yogurt, will it become safe from harmful bacteria? I plan to use the whey to make the liver-based formula.
Whey from raw yogurt is wonderful to use.
I also forgot to add, the organic yogurt in the stores here are all from pasturized organic milk…
Whey from pasteurized yogurt is fine to use as well.
Hi Sarah, i plan to use the whey for liver based formula.