Homemade Cottage Cheese
Cottage cheese is believed to be the first cheese produced, probably by the Egyptians or Greeks. Originally, it was made by allowing milk to sit at room temperature until the good bacteria in the milk make milk proteins (casein) coagulate. Now, as we do not use raw milk but pasteurised milk in our everyday use, the milk proteins have to be coagulated by other means e.g. lemon juice, vinegar or addition of bacterial cultures that create an acidic environment in the milk, causing proteins to coagulate https://highlandcottagerentals.com/ . A little known fact about cottage cheese is that it takes 100 pounds of milk to produce just 15 pounds of it. We eat cottage cheese as a diet food, since it is low in carbohydrates and fat and high in protein. Regular cottage cheese only has 4% of fat by weight, while low-fat made with skimmed milk has only 2%. A half-cup of cottage cheese has 14 grams of protein. This is about as much as 2 ounces of cooked lean meat, poultry, or fish. The t...