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How to Use Sour Raw Milk

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Do you have sour raw milk? Don’t toss it out! Unlike pasteurized milk, raw milk doesn’t go bad. Check out these wonderful ways to use soured raw milk!

Do you have sour raw milk? Don't toss it out! Unlike pasteurized milk, raw milk doesn't go bad. Check out these wonderful ways to use soured raw milk!

It doesn’t happen all too often, but every few months life gets the best of us, and we let a gallon or two of raw milk go past it’s through date.

When I pick up raw milk at the farm, I always tell the kids to use the oldest date first.  Sometimes my smaller kids just get too excited to drink milk and don’t notice the dates on the cap.  As a result, every few weeks we end up with a gallon or two past the through date. 

My husband enjoys drinking raw milk just as much as we do. However, he starts to panic when he sees a past date on his milk.  However.. unlike pasteurized milk, there really isn’t any room for worry.  

These two gallons of soured raw milk (milk that has gone past its use by date) are still usable and perfect to use in the kitchen. Unlike pasteurized milk, that goes putrid and must be thrown out, raw milk is still incredibly useful.  

Incorporate it in your baking, cheese or yogurt-making and you’ll find that it’s almost impossible “not” to use up these gallons.

Why such a huge difference?

Pasteurized milk is a dead food.  It has been heated to a point that the enzymes and probiotics have been killed. Thus, it’s a huge food borne illness in terms of consumption, and must be thrown when it reaches it’s “use by” date. 

Raw milk, on the other hand, is full of beneficial bacteria, enzymes and probiotics.  When it goes past it’s through date, it means that the probiotics have started the use up the lactose. As a result, the milk will no longer taste quite as sweet, and is coined with the term “soured raw milk.”

But… it is still quite usable in the kitchen. Or garden, and used if you have pets. 

Those enzymes and probiotics are so good for your gut – and can actually help your body in many ways. 

Do you have sour raw milk? Don't toss it out! Unlike pasteurized milk, raw milk doesn't go bad. Check out these wonderful ways to use soured raw milk!

This sour milk (milk past it’s due date) is still safe to drink.  It’s even better for you because it now has even more beneficial bacteria (probiotics) – those probiotics have initiated a fermentation.

How to Use Soured Raw Milk

So what do you do with this milk  that is past the through date?  Don’t toss it out! There are SO many ways to use it… here are a few that we have used in our home.

Use it to make kefir

Use it to make homemade yogurt (in your Instant Pot) – after yogurt, strain even further to make Labneh. Yum!

Make raw milk ricotta cheese

Use it to make a Raw Milk Kefir Smoothie

Make Homemade Kefir Pancakes

Make this easy 2-ingredient sourdough french bread

Use the cream off the top to make homemade butter

Use it to make banana bread 

Use it in place of buttermilk in recipes you have for muffins and breads

Raw Milk makes amazing sour cream

Use it to feed your pets (they love raw milk!)

Make this easy 2-ingredient strawberry smoothie

Use it to make Grain-Free Kefir Brownies

Grab popsicle molds and use it to make Raw Milk Popsicles

Use it in place of sour cream to make Blueberry Muffins

Use up in this easy Milk and Honey Cornbread

Use it to make this homemade milk soap

Raw milk makes excellent Kefir, which can be used for Sourdough Bread

This list could go on and on – do you have any more I can add?

Read more about Raw Milk:

  • Why Our Family Switched to Raw Milk
  • Making the Switch to Raw Milk
  • Raw Milk Reality | Why it’s a Healing Food
  • Why Skim Milk Can Make you Fat

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Comments

  1. Anne-Marie says

    October 14, 2022 at 8:53 pm

    Made this sour milk bread today after returning home from a trip to fund the last of our milk/cream soured. Worked out well although didn’t rise as much as expected. Wondering if it’s because I had previously boiled the sour milk and cream? I’m thinking that might have killed some of the natural rising bacteria. I had boiled it hoping to make some ricotta cheese and when it didn’t separate I found this recipe and tried it. What do you think, Rebooted Mom? I also used about 1/2c raw buttermilk because I didn’t have the full 2c sour milk & cream.

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    • Sheryl says

      October 17, 2022 at 10:36 pm

      It may be because you boiled it .. and yes, you are right – you may have killed some of the natural rising bacteria. If you have milk that is souring, or lots of raw milk, you can make homemade cottage cheese (so easy, and great way to use up a lot of milk!) Ricotta can be tricky sometimes.. I have had times when it hasn’t separated. In those cases I either raise the heat slightly (to 185/190) or.. I’ll add some lemon juice/extra vinegar, just a bit, at a time, until the curds separate. I always use raw milk, if you can’t get that, then pasteurized is ok, but ultra pasteurized will not work at all. Save the whey from the ricotta when you make it next time… it’s great for making cold process soap (whey has lots of sugars, and sugars give soap lots of lather!)

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  2. Anonymous says

    January 15, 2023 at 8:22 am

    I had a friend give me goat milk about 15 months ago and everytime I cleaned out my fridge I told myself I would figure out something to do with it. Am I too late? Is it too old to do anything with? Lol

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