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Hand-book on cheese making

Chapter 25: SKIMMED CHEESE.
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This practical manual guides dairy operators through selecting and preparing a factory site and building, choosing and arranging utensils, and carrying out cheese manufacture from milk handling to curing. It explains a common hard-cheese process that favors milk acidity and controlled curd-whey separation, details pressing and ripening practices, and offers troubleshooting, sanitary and operational recommendations aimed at producing uniform, marketable product. Historical notes on the development of the factory system and discussions of rennet, coloring, and quality control underline the work's focus on practicable methods for makers, dealers, and consumers.

SKIMMED CHEESE.


Making edible skimmed cheese is an effort to supply a constituent for the product that does not exist, namely, oleaginous matter. The butter or cream in milk is what gives rich flavor and mellow body to cheese. When a part or whole of this is removed by the skimmer, the depleted fluid, if manufactured into cheese, just as that containing all of the cream would be, will make dry, tasteless stuff. Skimmed cheese must be cooked, soured and salted less than full cream. Flat skims can often be scalded at 93° and 94° Fahrenheit. But, of course, this must be governed entirely by the rules relating to thorough cooking.