The most useful and delicious dishes are obtained with fresh milk, although the preparation of melted and condensed milk, recipes of which are popular with chefs, allows you to preserve this product without losing its taste qualities. Dairy products, cheese, butter, sour cream are made from milk, porridges, soups, pastries and sweets are prepared.
Types of Milk
The dairy industry produces pasteurized and sterilized milk. It is believed that the pasteurized product is more useful because it preserves beneficial microorganisms.
During pasteurization, the fermentation process simply slows down, therefore, the shelf life of the product is extended to 36-38 hours.
Sterilized milk differs from pasteurized milk in that it is almost completely free of microorganisms. Its shelf life is six months. Sterilized milk is good to use with tea and cocoa. The same dishes are prepared from sterilized milk that can be prepared from pasteurized milk.
What to Make From Milk?
We often cook a lot of nutritious dishes at home from pasteurized milk. Dishes such as drinks with chocolate, sugar, juices and syrups are popular. Milk can be consumed with coffee, tea. Milk recipes are also advised to use for making soups, breakfasts and various sauces. Milk is also added to confectionery and to the dough during baking.
Recipes with milk are used to make milk soups and nutritious cereal porridges. Creams, souffles, ice cream are unthinkable without milk. Milk is also needed for making casseroles, puddings, pancakes and fritters. It can be the basis for porridge or soup, dessert or sauce, baking or cocktail. There are many milk dishes for breakfast, lunch or dinner. For a good sleep, it is recommended to drink milk with honey at night.
From simple milk, you can make real treats that neither adults nor children will refuse. Milkshakes with fruit, syrup or chocolate and vanilla are a real feast of taste. There are dozens of options for coffee with milk. You can also make condensed milk at home. It is very convenient to cook condensed milk in a slow cooker, since the whole process is automated. Finally, homemade fermented milk products, such as homemade yogurt, are much tastier than store-bought ones.
What to Cook From Sour Milk?
Milk is a perishable product. But sour milk is also usable, so many are interested in what to cook from sour milk. First of all, these are various flour products. Recipes for pancakes and pies are at your service. Sour milk makes the dough lush. There is also a vegetable salad or a vegetable snack, in which sour milk can also be used. Finally, to make a delicious dough for dumplings, you can also take sour milk.
Cakes “Baskets” are a delicious and beautiful dessert for every taste. For hot, summer days – a simplified cooking method that does not require baking baskets. Crunchy walnut basket, airy berry-based mousse cream… Tender and unusual dessert! Amazing taste and aroma of colorful blackberries!!!
An unusual combination of many favorite Oreo cookies with ice cream, creates a unique taste and pleasing to the eye. In addition, the absence of ice cream flavor improvers and additives for storing the product, a nice bonus of this recipe. A lovingly prepared ice cream cake will please your family and friends.
Pastel de nata – the main Portuguese sweet, a cake with a basket of puff pastry with custard. Most Portuguese pastries are made exclusively from yolks. The reason for this is the era of great geographical discoveries. Back then, Portugal had the best fleet in the world, and it took a lot of egg whites to whiten the sails of all the ships, and the yolks were left out of business. So that the product was not lost, they went their own way and began to widely use egg yolks in cooking. Recipe pastel de Nata was invented in the 18th century by monks at the Jerónimos monastery. And still there is an establishment near the monastery where they sell those cakes, the recipe of which is kept in the strictest secret. However, pate de Nata began to be reproduced throughout the country and now they are served in many places. And every year there is a competition for the best pate de Nata.
Very simple English dessert trifle, literally a trifle, but it does not taste like a monosyllabic dish. The original trifle is made from custard, this variation is made from cream-raspberry cream.
I want to offer a cold drink option for a hot summer. It is very simple and the result is pleasing. You can do it with instant coffee, or you can, like me, with instant chicory. The drink is very refreshing and reminds me of Glasse coffee, well, I think so). Try it?
Such cupcakes of course can be made in one large, but it is better all the same portion. They are more tender than usual, but more dense than clafoutis. In the season of cherries and sweet cherry, you should definitely try them.
Classic dessert with a raspberry note in the cream. These cakes are liked by both children and adults, will decorate your tea party and just lift your mood, like any dessert!