What is a cheese curd?!


Question: All I really want to know is how it's made and the ingredients


Answers: All I really want to know is how it's made and the ingredients

Same as the other cheese just smaller .

Their flavor is mild with about the same firmness as cheese, but have a springy or rubbery texture. Fresh curds squeak against the teeth when bitten into, which some would say is their defining characteristic. Cheese curds are sometimes referred to as "Squeaky cheese." They are sometimes somewhat salty. The American variety are usually yellow or orange in color, like cheddar cheese. Other varieties, such as the Québécois variety, can be roughly the same color as white cheddar cheese.

Curds ... and whey, are a regular by-product of making many kinds of cheese. The ingredients will vary with the type of cheese being made. Curds just don't go through the same aging processes as the regular cheese.
If you look on-line you would think that they were invented in Wisconsin but they have been around since man has made cheese.

Little Miss Muffet has only been around for about 200 years but cheese is almost as old civilization.
http://www.librarysupport.net/mothergoos...

Legend has it that cheese was discovered about 4000 years ago when an Arab traveler put her day's milk in a sheep-stomach canteen and headed out across the desert. When she got to her destination, she discovered that the milk had turned into strange-looking white curd. Being quite hungry as well as thirsty, she tasted the stuff and was very pleased with her discovery. Of course, she told all her friends about it and thus began the wonderful new industry of cheese making. I have a feeling that cheese making has been around longer than 4000 years. There is evidence that it's been around since about 9000 B.C., and the first cheese was probably started from leaving milk out too long.
http://www.moscowfood.coop/archive/chees...


Good stuff ... The make a healthy snack.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese_curd...

I Hope This Helps ... Good Luck

Cheese curds are the fresh curds of cheddar cheese.
Cheese curds are little-known in locations without cheese factories, because they should ideally be eaten within hours of manufacture. After twelve hours, even under refrigeration, they have lost much of their "fresh" characteristics, particularly the "squeak". This "squeak" has been described by the New York Times as sounding like "balloons trying to neck".[1] After twenty-four hours, they will lose their freshness entirely. If they are purchased locally and need to be kept for a couple of days, room temperature, rather than refrigeration, may preserve the flavor and "squeak".

Their flavor is mild with about the same firmness as cheese, but have a springy or rubbery texture. Fresh curds squeak against the teeth when bitten into, which some would say is their defining characteristic. Cheese curds are sometimes referred to as "Squeeky cheese." They are sometimes somewhat salty. The American variety are usually yellow or orange in color, like cheddar cheese. Other varieties, such as the Québécois variety, can be roughly the same color as white cheddar cheese.





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