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[RichardB]

Can somebody give me the English name for Pithkia - Used for thickening milk for Halloumi etc

[CBBB]

Surely it must be rennet, that is what is used in cheese making.

[RichardB]

Cheers mate

[CBBB]

It might be more complicated than that, you need to use the right kind depending on the source of the milk.

Have a butchers at good old wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rennet

[kurupetos]

Can somebody give me the English name for Pithkia - Used for thickening milk for Halloumi etc

Milk is standardized and pasteurized and is curdled with calf rennet or microbial rennet.

http://www.digital-in.info/cheese/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=50&Itemid=58&lang=en

[CBBB]

Can somebody give me the English name for Pithkia - Used for thickening milk for Halloumi etc

Milk is standardized and pasteurized and is curdled with calf rennet or microbial rennet.

http://www.digital-in.info/cheese/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=50&Itemid=58&lang=en

OK, but you use calf rennet for cow's milk, and kid goat rennet for goat's milk.

[GreekIslandGirl]

I posted the other day (then self-deleted) that my mum used to use lemon juice. I've just double-checked to see how wide-spread this practice is and apparently lemon juice is commonly used for cheese-making instead of rennet.

The Greeks adored cheese. In the eighth century B.C.E., Homer mentions cheese in his epic poem, “The Odyssey.” Olympic athletes grew fleet and brawny on a mostly-cheese diet.hobbyfarms.com

[kurupetos]

I posted the other day (then self-deleted) that my mum used to use lemon juice. I've just double-checked to see how wide-spread this practice is and apparently lemon juice is commonly used for cheese-making instead of rennet.

The Greeks adored cheese. In the eighth century B.C.E., Homer mentions cheese in his epic poem, “The Odyssey.” Olympic athletes grew fleet and brawny on a mostly-cheese diet.hobbyfarms.com

[supporttheunderdog]

Cheese making was probably several thousand years old by the time The Odyssey was written, possibly being known in what is now Poland as much as 7500 years ago.

[bill cobbett]

Cheese making was probably several thousand years old by the time The Odyssey was written, possibly being known in what is now Poland as much as 7500 years ago.

Poland...???

Surely the making of cheese must be very nearly as old as agriculture and the domestication of sheep and goats which would put it at least 10,000 years ago and with a western origin somewhere in the Fertile Crescent...???