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Making Kesong Puti, Pastillas de Leche from Carabao’s Milk

By Pinoy Farmer | September 24, 2009
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1. Soft White Cheese or “Kesong Puti”

Materials:

Procedure:

1. Determine the weight or volume of milk. Predetermination of milk volume will enable one to estimate the amount of salt and rennet extract to be mixed Yield of cheese can also be determined.

2. Calculate the required amount of salt. Salt requirement is 2 to 3% of the weight of the milk or 2 table spoonful of salt per liter of milk.

3. Add and dissolve the salt in milk.

4. With cheese cloth, strain the salted cheese milk to remove all extraneous matter.

5. Pasteurize the milk in a double boiler at 72°C for 5 minutes. If thermometer is not available, observe the formation of a thin film on the surface of milk and cover. It this film is observed, stir the milk and cover.

Reduce the fire and after 2 to 5 minutes, depending on the volume, remove the milk from the stove. Hold the milk without stirring for 10 minutes. After holding this, transfer the casserole to a holder with cold or iced water to hasten the cooling of milk. If the milk is to be processed right away, cooling should be stopped when temperature is between 40 to 45°C. If to be processed the following day, the milk must be cooled to a temperature not higher than 15°C. Avoid overheating.

6. Add coagulant (rennet extract). When commercial rennet is used, the amount needed should be three to four times more than the recommended amount. When the locally prepared rennet extract is used, add about 3 to 4 teaspoonful of the prepared rennet per liter of salted milk. The correct amount of rennet has been attained if milk coagulates 15 to 25 minutes after adding the extract.

The temperature of milk should be about 38°C at the time of adding the rennet. After adding the rennet, the milk should be stirred slowly for 2 minutes. The milk should then be covered and left in a clean place to form coagulum.

7. Prepare the cheese moulder by sterilization. Set-up the materials such as moulders, cheese cloth, framed mesh wire and the whey catcher.

8. Scoop the coagulum in thin slides of not more than 1 cm. This facilitates efficient draining and contributes to the firmness of the texture of soft cheese.

9. Allow the cheese to drain whey for 6 hours. After draining time, the cheese must have shrunk ¾ to ½ of its original size.

Failure to attain the degree of shrinkage, is possibly caused by the following:

10. After draining, wrap the cheese with the waxpaper. Handlers of cheese must thoroughly wash hands with soap and water.

All materials used in the process should be properly washed and sterilized. Casseroles should be scrubbed thoroughly and rinsed with half-liter of water to one table spoonful of chlorox.

2. Pastillas de Leche

Materials:

Procedure:

  1. Heat the pan and pour one liter of fresh carabao’s milk.
  2. Add 1-1/2 cup of sugar
  3. Bring the milk to a boil and stir till it thickens
  4. Then roll on a clean, dry board sprinkled with heater corn starch or flour and cut into the desired size.
  5. Wrap the pastillas in bond paper or Japanese paper.

Source: daweb.da.gov.ph

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2 Responses to “Making Kesong Puti, Pastillas de Leche from Carabao’s Milk”

  1. Micah Says:
    November 12th, 2009 at 5:01 pm

    This is a great post.. Very informative… I can see that you put a lot of hard work on your every post that’s why I think I’d come here more often. Keep it up! By the way, you can also drop by my blogs. They’re about Vegetable Gardening and Composting. I’m sure you’d find my blogs helpful too.

  2. Raymark D. Ramos Says:
    December 1st, 2009 at 4:10 pm

    Thank you for the recipe’s that you put to your website.

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