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Cottage cheese is consumed to a small extent in Great Britain, North America, Japan and is almost completely absent in Southern Europe and other parts of the world. In English-speaking cultures, cottage cheese is considered a type of young soft cheese, while in modern Russian-speaking environments, tvorog is usually not considered a type of cheese.
Slavic homemade foods kolach and korovai served alongside kvass and kefir. Kefir (/ k ə ˈ f ɪər / kə-FEER; [1] [2] alternative spellings: kephir or kefier; Russian: кефир [kʲɪˈfʲir] ⓘ; Karachay-Balkar: гыпы) is a fermented milk drink similar to a thin yogurt or ayran that is made from kefir grains, a specific type of mesophilic symbiotic culture.
The name syrniki is derived from the Slavic word syr (сир), meaning a soft curd cheese. [3] [4] The Ukrainian language retains the old Slavic sense of the word, as in domashnii syr (домашній сир, literal translation 'domestic cheese'), whereas in Russian another old Slavic word for curd cheese, tvorog (творог), is used.
It is available as a liquid or in a dried form, which needs to be soaked and softened before it can be used in cooking. Kashk was traditionally produced from the leftovers of cheese-making (more specifically, the milk used to make it). The procedure is, subtracting butter from milk, the remainder is doogh which can be used as the base for kashk ...
Kumis is a dairy product similar to kefir, but is produced from a liquid starter culture, in contrast to the solid kefir "grains". Because mare's milk contains more sugars than cow's or goat's milk, when fermented, kumis has a higher, though still mild, alcohol content compared to kefir.
The resulting cheese has a very tangy, rich flavor and a creamy, dense texture, similar to brie. It may or may not have live culture remaining in the cheese after manufacture depending on the specific process. In 2024 scientists sequenced the DNA of 3,600 year-old pieces of kefir cheese found with a mummy in northwest China.
In Tibet, yak milk (technically dri milk, as the word yak refers to the male animal) is made into yogurt (and butter and cheese) and consumed. In Northern Iran, Mâst Chekide is a variety of kefir yogurt with a distinct sour taste. It is usually mixed with a pesto-like water and fresh herb purée called delal.
Provel pizza cheese in a five-pound block. This product is commonly used in the preparation of St. Louis-style pizza. [dubious – discuss]One variant of pasteurized processed cheese dairy products is, according to a hospitality industry source, designed to melt well on pizza, [4] while remaining chewy; this has been described as "artificial cheesy substance that's much quicker and cheaper to ...