Are you still with me? If so, after the milk is curdled, drain off the liquid, which is called whey. This liquid will look like green water. It will be good to feed the hogs or you can drink it for extra nourishment. Little Miss Muffet ate the curds and whey.

        You can take the curds and put some salt and pepper on it and eat it right now, or you can continue the process and make cheese by putting the curds into a press, your father has made, and press every bit of the liquid out.

        After the curds are pressed into a solid mass you then dip the cheese into hot wax and cover it with cheese cloth. The hot wax will adhere to the cloth and seal the cheese from the air. Then pop the cheese into the cheese cupboard that your father has built out of boards and tin. This cupboard usually sits in one end of your big kitchen and the cheeses will stay there until they are cured. With 10 kids waiting to eat the cheese I am afraid it won't be able to stay there very long. They won't be able to wait months so you had better make several at once.

        Once the cheese is cut into, the mother will take the slices and pop them into a hot frying pan and it will melt so the kids can put it on the slices of that good home-made bread. One cheese won't last long. Kids never had it so good! If one of the girls decides to go hitch hiking, she will take one of these cheeses, tie it into a big flour sack and head down the road. It will provide good eating for her until she decides that leaving home wasn't such a good idea and she will return to the plenty of the farm.