What is feta?

Probably one of the first known cheeses, Feta has been made throughout the Greek islands for centuries. Homer himself wrote about it and describes how the gods created cheese. In Greece, most of the soil is too rocky and the grass is thin to nourish cattle, which are extremely heavy. As a result, many traditional Greek foods rely on goat, highly adaptive, intelligent animal is well suited for the Greek landscape. In Greece, this cheese is often consumed as a main course, with many farmersIt exists for long days on the blocks of feta consumed by olives.

Traditionally, feta is made of unpasteurized milk, which is heated and mixed with Rennet to form cottage cheese. The clots are released to remove the whey before cutting and wrapped firmly in the cheese substance that creates curd in free blocks of the cheese. Under pressure, the blocks are built and placed in the brine to cure. Sometimes it is referred to as pickled cheese, protrumOže matures and matures in Solace for six to eight weeks and dries, if discarded. The real goat feta is very soft and most of the cheese for export is made of milk and cow milk because it holds much better.