Yogurt or Quark Cheese, Part V

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Part V

How to Make Yogurt or Quark Cheese

You can convert milk into cheese by adding a coagulant that separates the

milk solids (cheese) from the liquids (whey). A coagulant is an acid like

lemon juice or rennet, a derivative of the stomach lining of goats and cows

or of plants like the stinging nettle.

In the case of quark and yogurt cheeses, the acid is a byproduct of fermentation

caused by the bacteria, so you do not need to add any other coagulant.

By reducing the amount of water in yogurt, you can make into a soft, curded

cheese similar to cottage cheese, but softer than and easily spreadable

like, cream cheese.

You can make such a cheese by dumping a quart of yogurt into a fine-mesh nylon

bag and letting it drip above a bowl for a day. The fluid that drips out is

whey, and you'll get a cup or more from a quart of yogurt.

Whey is nutritious. You can and should drink it.

You can get more details on cheese making at:

* http://www.efr.hw.ac.uk/SDA/cheese1.html

* http://www.agen.ufl.edu/~chyn/age4660/lect/lect_19/cheeses.htm

* http://www.windward.org/ush/cheese.htm

* http://www.evaporators.co.uk/pages/Dairy_products.htm.

Where to Buy Quark, Yogurt, and Bacterial Cultures

While Yogurt is available in any grocery store, Quark is hard to find. You

can buy it on-line at http://www.germandeli.com/040817010014.html for less

than $6 a quark, I mean quart.

You might be able to purchase a dried culture of the Quark bacteria for $50

or more from http://www.dsmz.de/dsmzhome.htm (for example,

http://www.dsmz.de/species/sp200956.htm). You can incubate it and grow it

at home in sterilized milk.

You can also purchase " probiotics " from a health food store, and use the

contents of several of the capsules to inoculate your warm, sterile milk.

If you want to be scientific about it, you should seek a related

microbiology college course, or intern at the nearest dairy farm.

Sincerely, Bob Hurt

2460 Persian Drive #70

Clearwater, FL 33763 USA

+1 (727) 799-4878, or

+1 (866) BOB-HURT (262-4878)

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