I've been meaning to give Barambah Organics a rave all of their own for ages now. We've been buying their milk from Mrs Flannery's ever since we first tried it a year or two ago- it beats all the other organic milks on the market. Their yoghurt is bloody awesome, just watch out for their Greek yoghurt if you're after a plain yoghurt, as I once was, because it's sweetened with honey. Their cream is a cut above the rest as well.
What's most notable about Barambah Organics products though is that when the milk goes 'off' it just smells like yoghurt- perfectly edible! When regular milk goes off it smells bitter and disgusting, downright nasty. 'Sour' Barambah Organics milk smells so good that I reckon I could make great homemade yoghurt with the regular milk. In fact, I intend to, some day.
Just a couple of weeks ago I bought some cream, meaning to make a cake and have the cream with the cake. As it turned out I didn't get around to making the cake until yesterday, by which time the cream was sour, with the same sort of sharp taste you get with natural yoghurt, but much milder. It kicked arse. It was actually better with the cake (orange and almond cake) than it would have been if it was fresh and sweet. It still tasted fresh, just with an acidic kick. I've never experienced anything like it with other brands of cream or milk, which are always 'hold your nose' jobs by the time they turn. I just can't believe their milk was only worth a silver medal at the Sydney Fine Foods show in 2007- I won't believe there's a better milk until I've tried it myself.
I'm not a huge fan of their cheddar, which is a very young cheddar, sweet, soft and mild, or their 'swiss' style, which has an almost cheddar-y taste. Both have a great taste and go well on sandwiches, but as examples of their genre they have some way to go. I haven't tried their award-winning ash brie, nor their labna.
Bean Scene in Hawken Village, our favourite cafe, started using Barambah Organics milk some time ago, which was a great move. Hopefully more cafes will start making the switch from crappy, homogenised supermarket milk to tasty, creamy, unhomogenised organic milk.
The only thing left for Barambah Organics to do is start making ice cream... I think I'll beat them to it, though. One of my ambitions this year is to buy an ice cream maker and make batches of ice cream out of Barambah Organics milk and cream... Gam reckons I'll be too fat to leave the house if I do that, but I don't caaaaare.
2 comments:
hmm wonder if I can find this in sydney?? as I am all for anything in the dairy section
On their website I think they link to some news articles that might mention where you'd be able to buy it in Sydney. Failing that, I would try emailing them to ask if they have any stockists in Sydney :)
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