how to make milk turn into butter,milk, OR cheese?!
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Answers:
No, the milk that we buy from the store has ALREADY been processed to take out the fats necessary to make butter, cheese and buttermilk. You cannot make any of them from the milk in your fridge.
Well, cheese is made by curdling the milk with some form of acid.
You need to warm the milk first to about 80degF, then add some acid----lemon juice would do in a real pinch. You let it sit at room temp until the solids form and separate from the clear liquid part of the milk.
Then you strain the curds out by pouring it through a cheesecloth lined sieve, and let it sit for a few hours over a bowl in the fridge. This is the most basic form of cheese, and won't taste like much--it needs salt and aging to achieve any real flavor, but it's edible.
Buttermilk is made in a similar fashion--but you need cultured sour cream, or some plain yogurt,a nd skim milk. Warm it up, then, to a quart, you add 1/4 c of either yogurt--also warmed, or cultured sour cream, or some leftover buttermilk. These things contain the bacterial cultures necessary to "sour" the milk without having is go 'sour'--bad.
Butter comes from cream, not just milk, so just milk won't get you any. With cream, all you have to do is put it in a jar and shake it. It will froth up then suddenly go "clunk" and the butterfat will separate from the whey and you have butter. you drain it through cheesecloth and press it with a fork on a slanted board to drain out all the watery stuff. Then salt it a little if you want, and voila! Butter.
There are parts of your question that are not English words, making it difficult to read. Were your question more clear I could answer better, but as it is, put it in a bowl and let it sit out.
Just Butter And Milk
