What is cheese?

Cheese (pinyin sū lào) is a dairy product, mainly made of goat's milk, cow's milk, etc., so there is a "cheese", "cheese" and other names, now usually called "cheese "

Originally, it is a dairy product made from goat's milk.

Originally the first for the northern minorities, is made of cow and sheep milk semi-coagulated food, creamy smooth and nutritious, melt in the mouth, is a traditional Manchu dairy products, mainly the use of wine (mash) or rice wine in the rhizosphere Rhizopus acid curdled milk, goji berries and other substances can also be curdled milk.

The treasures of the royal meals

Cheese in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties court, was the treasures of the royal meals. Its original practice is to blend the fresh milk and glutinous rice wine into a small bowl, and then put into a large pine barrel carefully baked, and finally to use the cellar ice cooling refrigeration.

Because the secret recipe for the process was never passed on to the public, at that time, even the rich and powerful could not get a taste of it, and it was a status symbol at that time. Unlike Western cheese, which was introduced to the Qing court from Mongolia and was elevated in the court, and eventually passed down to the Beijing folk in the old Beijing traditional snacks, it is now easy to make this once palace dessert at home.