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even if you can, why screw with it. why not just spent a couple of bucks and buy some whole milk?
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No, it's not the same thing at all. The cram isn't 'mixed' with the milk. And there is always dried powdered milk that has been added to skim and low fat milk which whole milk doesn't have. I don't know why you want to make whole milk, but it's easier to just buy some appropriate milk.
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To make cheese. Store-bought whole milk is pasteurized and homogenized. Homogenized milk is difficult to use to make cheese, because it disperses the fat microscopically, and does not yield a satisfying curd in the cheese-making process. The ideal choice for cheese-making is "pasteurized non-homogenized", the old fashioned kind, also known as "cream on top" milk, available at health-food stores but over twice as expensive. I've read that one possibility, in order to yield a milk that is satisfying for cheese-making, is to mix the right proportions of fat-free milk with whipping cream, essentially reproducing a "cream on top" milk.
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It may not be exact, but you can. When they produce whole milk, they take out all the fat (originally a little less than 4%) & add it back to be 3.5% which is what is FDA approved to be called "whole milk". Then any extra fat can be sold for for $ than the milk can be. So it is a math question. Skim milk has less than .5% fat, Whole Milk has 3.5% & heavy cream has between 36-40% fat. So if you are desperate to not make a trip to the store & have skim & heavy cream on hand, you can mix at a ratio of approx. 10 to 1, you should have whole milk.
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