What you need for making cottage cheese
As the basis of cheese is the milk, it depends on its quality taste, useful features and the quality of the final product. If you do the cheese not sticking to these rules, it is possible to not simply useful, but harmful and even dangerous product, as it may contain microorganisms. Therefore, it is desirable to take store-bought pasteurized milk, which is already processed and safe for health.
If you want to make cheese from raw milk, it needs to be processed carefully to boil.
The milk should turn sour in the indoor environment, then it will turn into yogurt after a day in warm weather or three days during the winter. If you add a bit of black bread, the process will go faster. Do not stir the milk until it sours.
The longer the milk turn sour, the sourer it will curd. But if you neoclassici the milk, then the cheese will be tasteless.
If fresh milk, another important ingredient in the process of making curd is sour. It is advisable to take a real cheese starter culture, but you can use yogurt or sour cream. Yeast add the warm milk and leave in a warm place to souring.
Take a clean cheesecloth, a colander and a saucepan. You can make a special linen bag in the form of a cone, it is more convenient to use than gauze, which also need to constantly change.
Recipe of cottage cheese
Separate the upper oily layer with sour milk, pour it into a saucepan and place on low heat, bringing to 50 degrees. By this time the milk will split into curds clot and serum. It is very important not to digest the liquid, otherwise the cheese will turn hard like rubber, especially not to boil sour milk.
Put the gauze in several layers in a colander so that the edges hung over the sides, put it in any container and pour the resulting mass in a colander. Hang the gauze, rolled into a knot, or a bag with a bunch at night over a bowl so that the whey was drained. The serum can then be used to make pancakes or a drink – it's great thirst quencher.
After a few hours you can squeeze the remaining whey, putting the bag of curds into the press. The result is a delicate, crumbly, fairly moist cheese, which, like all homemade products are tastier than store-bought. The longer you hold the pouch under pressure, the drier the work product. Homemade cottage cheese stored in the refrigerator no more than two or three days, the most delicious fresh it when freshly cooked.