Lithuanian curd’s cheese

Curd’s cheese is traditional Lithuanian food.

From ancient times, making this kind of white cheese is spread in Lithuania.

Life has changed, but curd’s cheese dominate on our breakfast table like many

years ago.

Making of the old curd’s cheese

Women pour sweet and sour milk in the pot. From two types of milk, curd will be sweeter than from one.

Milk shrinks and they got curd. Women put this product in a sack for cheese (in Lithuanian sūrmaišis - cheesebag). Then it is squeezed. From 8 liters of milk they got about 1kilo weight curd’s cheese.

Lithuanians made cheese like that some time ago.

I’m glad, that this cheese is being made now, but... Differently

Making of our days curd’s cheese Women beat the eggs, put sour cream and salt

and stir again. They boil milk and slowly pour sour cream-eggs

mixture. Women stir nonstop, until form small pieces of curd.

Women pour all mass in the colander and let to drop about 20 minutes before cheese get shape.

Then put it on the slate, depress with another slate from above and keep it for 4-5 hours. After that, the cheese is put on the plate and into the fridge.

Curd’s cheese

with honey

Curd’s cheese

with jam and

berries

Curd’s cheese

with cumin

Curd’s cheese with poppy

Curd’s cheese

with jelly

Fried curd’s

cheese with

honey and chili

Curd’s cheese – traditional Lithuanian food and

Lithuanians’ ancestral legacy, which did not disappear

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