Abstract: Acid salts such as sodium bisulfate are used as acidifiers for milk, as well as acidogens in the setting of acidified milk, in acid cheese curd manufacture. The use of an acid salt enables acidifying heated milk or heating milk after acidifying without precipitating protein from the milk.
Abstract: Cheese curd is produced by acidifying milk with an aqueous acidulant mixture containing about 10 to about 60 parts by weight of an acid salt and about 5 to about 40 parts by weight of a free acid. Cottage cheese curd is produced by using an aqueous mixture of sodium bisulfate and sulfuric acid.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 14, 1980
Date of Patent:
October 5, 1982
Assignee:
Mallinckrodt International Corp.
Inventors:
Donald I. Pearline, Edgar A. Corbin, Jr., Marvin A. Garner