Cream cheese manufacture
Cream cheese is known for Egyptian people by double cream
cheese, it is manufacture from a mixture of full cream buffalo
milk with fresh cream to prepare a mixture contains not less
than 10% fat. Cream cheese was manufactured according to
Phadungath (2005) with some modifications. 1.3 kg of fresh
cream (50% fat) was added to 8.7 kg cow milk (4% fat) to prepare 10 kg of mixture contained 10% fat. The mixture was
then homogenized using X520, UAC 30-R, Chicago II G064
(3000 rpm/min) homogenizer at 55–60 C and further heat
treated to 74 C for 30 s and then cooled to 39 C. Calcium
chloride (0.02%) was added then 2% rennet (diluted 10 times
with water) to coagulate in about 3 h. The resulted curd was
then transferred to perforated cheese molds over night to remove all the whey then stored at 4 C until used.