Do you know what can be done from milk without much effort?

It makes no sense to list all the useful properties of milk, because they have long been known. No wonder that we are taught from childhood to milk porridge, and grandmothers in the village are treated with a glass of fresh milk with homemade cookies or gingerbread. This drink is always associated with kindness, care and use. But it is used not only for drinking, but also for eating. Let's see what can be done from milk at home.

Simplicity is the guarantee of health

Such products as cottage cheese, sour cream, kefir, fermented baked milk, cheese and many others consist mainly of milk. If to reflect, for their manufacturing practically anything is not necessary any more, except for pair-three small additives. At the same time, all of them are very similar in composition, but differ in consistency and taste. It's the method, or rather, the process of preparing it. Some dairy products require special devices (for example, a sour cream separator). And what can you make of milk without any adaptations? Quite a lot.

Curd - our friend

We will consider the most common and most popular products: cottage cheese, yoghurt, cheese and ... condensed milk! Let's start with the first one. First you need to boil the milk, and then cool it to a temperature close to the temperature of our body (36-37 degrees). In a saucepan with milk, add sour cream or kefir (3 liters 3 spoons) and cover it with a lid. So she must stand 24 hours at room temperature. The next day we put our pan with milk in the other, with boiling water. In the course of this, the whey will separate and form a milk clot. He is what we need. We hang it in the gauze, so that the excess liquid of the glass, and we still have a delicate crumbly curd. Easy, is not it?

Yogurt without additives and without extra costs

Now tell you what you can do from milk for a healthy diet. It's about yogurt. You can prepare it in two ways: with leaven or ordinary yogurt. First, boil the milk and cool it. Then add the ferment to the pan (2-3 spoonfuls per liter of milk) or natural yogurt (3-4 tablespoons per liter). We take a hot water bottle and pour hot water into it. Milk with additives pour into a saucepan with a thick bottom and install on a heating pad. In the morning you can pamper yourself with homemade yogurt.

Who does not like cheese, he did not try to cook it

And how about cooking homemade cheese from milk? We will make "Ricotta" - extraordinarily tender for taste and consistency. To do this, heat two liters of milk to 80 degrees, add to it sugar (a teaspoon), a pinch of salt and 30 grams of lemon juice. Remove from the heat, constantly stir the milk: it should curl up from the lemon juice, and the cheese - to separate. We shift it into a sieve and we stop for some time. Then we need to cover our home "Ricotta" gauze and leave for half an hour. It's so simple and inexpensive you can get insanely delicious Italian cheese.

Homemade condensed milk is something new

Do not forget about the dessert, which also refers to the list of what can be made from milk. Of course, this is a favorite condensed milk since childhood. To make it, first cook the syrup from sugar and water (2: 1). Then boil the milk and pour sugar syrup into it. We boil for another 20 minutes, not forgetting to interfere, and then reduce the fire to a minimum and cook for 2 hours. This homemade condensed milk is not terrible to let the children eat with tea, because it absolutely does not contain harmful additives in the form of flavorings, preservatives and others.

Cow, goat ... but what's the difference!

By the way, this article is about any milk. So, you can prepare the listed products from goat's milk. They will have a special refined taste, and on utility even surpass the cows made from milk. Especially you will like goat cheese. Cooking can be the same as "Ricotta". In Europe, it is included in the list of products that are a panacea for diseases. Try it, there really will not be any harm.