Cheese And Cheese-Making.[Food,Technology,Biology,Science,Cooking,Recipes,Ingredients].pdf

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Ulla-Kerstin Nilsson Blom and Per-Olof Weréen
Ostfrämjandet, Falkenberg
Cheese and cheese-making
With a special emphasis on Swedish cheeses
Ancient origins
Cheeses are found in almost all cultures throughout the world
and cheese is one of our oldest food items. The method of making
cheese ancient. In the past, milk was a seasonal food and cheese-
making was a method of conserving the milk and avoiding waste
at times of surplus. The production of cheese using has
been known for at least 5 000 years and dates back to the ancient
Mesopotamia and Egypt.
The history of cheeses parallels with that of wine and in both cases
there are more or less trustworthy stories about the origin. One
story tells how our ancestors discovered that had the effect
of precipitating casein (milk proteins) from the milk when milk
was found in the stomach of a slaughtered calf. Another story tells
how the first cheese was created around 9 000 years ago when an
Arabian merchant was riding on a camel through the desert. He had
brought with him a bag made from skin and filled with goat-milk.
CORRESPONDENCE TO When he opened it to drink, he found that the heat and the rocking
Ulla-Kerstin Nilsson-Blom of the camel had turned the milk into solid cheese and liquid whey.
Ostfrämjandet The merchant tasted it and found