Kareish cheese manufacture
Four pilot-scale batches of Kareish cheese were made as
described by Hussein (1994). Four equal portions of skim milk
was heat treated at 72 _C for 15 s then cooled to 39–40 _C. The
first and second portions were inoculated with 3% (v/v) of CH-
1 (T1) and ABT-1 (T2) mother cultures, respectively. Other
two portions were supplemented with CaC12 (0.02%, v/v of
milk), inoculated with 3% of CH-1 (T3) and ABT-1 (T4) cultures
and renneted (3 g/100 kg of milk) was added. All skim
milk treatments were stirred well, and held until to coagulate.
Sodium chloride (0.5%, w/v of milk) was added between
cheese layers and left to whey drain into small cheese moulds
at room temperature for _4–5 h. Cheese blocks were monitored
to different analyses after overnight storage at 5ฑ 1 _C.