Why heat cream with lemon juice?

During quarantine, when once again to go to the store there is no possibility, sometimes you want to treat yourself and your family something tasty. But what if there is no ordinary, seemingly creamy cheese on the shelves?



First of all, no panic. You can make a hearty cream treat literally from several ingredients. How? We will explain this below.



Homemade cream cheese It works if you use only a couple of ingredients and carefully follow the instructions in the recipe. And our editors, after a little thought, decided to share with you several options for this product. Everyone has their own tastes, as they say. Okay, let's go!

Making cheese at home Ingredients

• 1 L cream 33%
• 3 tbsp lemon juice

Preparation

1. The juice must be natural. Strain it from the pulp and seeds, you don't want to catch them in cheese, do you?
   
   
   
2. Pour the cream into the pan and bring it to a temperature of 80 degrees. You're gonna need a kitchen thermometer.
3. Remove the pot from the fire and pour the lemon juice.
4. Start stirring the cream immediately. They will slowly begin to turn into something like kefir. You'll notice a little cottage cheese flakes on the edges of the dishes.
5. Stir for about 3 minutes and put the container on the fire again. Take it to 80 degrees.
   
   
   
6. Then remove the cream from the fire and bring it to room temperature.
7. Take a new, clean wafer cloth (cloth) and make a sieve with it. Pour a barely warm creamy mass on top. Carefully tie the bag and hang out for a day in the refrigerator. Don't forget to leave a bowl under it where the serum will drain.
   
   
   
8. In 24 hours, you'll get about 200 grams of whey and a whole bag of fresh cream cheese. It will be very satisfying, so be careful to use it if you watch your figure. Bon appetit!
   
   
   

This cheese is good for dessert. The kids will love it, just try it once. But we have another recipe for homemade cheese for you, a favorite among those who are calm about sweets, but like to make sandwiches and smears with them.

The ingredients

• 1l kefir
• greens (duckle, parsley)
• nuts

Preparation

1. Put a bag of kefir in the freezer overnight.
2. In the morning, you caught a coarse gauze and put an ice kefir on it. Wait for full thawing.
3. Let the serum drain. From it you can prepare a lot of dishes: pancakes, biscuits, pancakes, pies. Some women make face masks with it.
   
   
   
4. The cheese left in the gauze can be mixed with crushed nuts or greens. Some add olives and cumin. Stir the ingredients and compress gently. Keep it in the fridge.
   
   
   

You can mix. cream-cheeseIn the future, to get a delicious cheese soup or sandwich smear. This truly versatile product is definitely useful for any kitchen. But we want to repeat about the large number of calories: what is, that is.



Cooking is delicious even when access to store goods is temporarily limited. A couple of tricks and unconventional solutions will help you please loved ones even when others prefer to eat only buckwheat or rice.