How its made!

On a basic level, cheese is simply the fat solids present in animal milk, compressed into a block. The process is essentailly:

• Take a large quantity of milk.
• Add an acid to cause the milk to split into curds (the fat solids) and whey(the residual liquid).
• Take the curds, compress, cool and age them.

For a wonderfully simnple recipie for homemade ricotta, take a look at this link . It really is fantastic!