Milk and Dairy Products

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June is National Dairy Month and a time when we all are reminded of the value of drinking milk for our good health and how important dairy products are. Milk and milk products come in many forms.

* Milk - homogenized, pasteurized, whole, 2%, 1% and skim
* Cream - the fat skimmed off the top of milk or separated by machine-centrifuges
* Sour Cream -  cream that has been fermented by the bacteria Streptococcus lactis and Leuconostoc citrovorum
* Cultured buttermilk - fermented concentrated milk with the water removed using the same bacteria as sour cream
* Powdered milk - may also be known as non-fat dry milk since the water is removed from the milk
* Condensed milk - milk which has been concentrated by evaporation that often has sugar added for longer life in an opened can
* Evaporated milk - less concentrated than condensed milk. The milk is without added sugar
* Ricotta cheese - milk heated and reduced in volume 
* Butter - mostly milk fat, produced by churning cream
* Buttermilk - the liquid left over after producing butter from cream
* Cheese - produced by coagulating milk, separatingfrom whey and letting it ripen, generally with bacteria and sometimes also with certain molds
* Cottage cheese- Soft, lumpy white cheese made from the curds of slightly soured milk
* Cream cheese - produced by the addition of cream to milk and then curdled to form a rich curd or cheese made from skim milk with cream added to the
curd.
* Yogurt - milk fermented by Streptoccoccus salivarius ssp. thermophilus and Lactobacillus delbrueckii ssp, bulgaricus sometimes with additional bacteria such as Lactobacillus acidophilus
* Ice cream - slowly frozen cream and emyulsifying additives
* Ice milk -  sweet frozen food similar to ice cream but containing less butterfat
* Frozen custard - dessert resembling ice cream but with a boiled custard base
* Frozen yogurt - yogurt with emulsifiers that is frozen

With all of these options for milk, the question is are there recipes that use milk? You bet there are! Check out the many recipes containing milk and dairy products in Flavorful Fortified Food - Recipes to Enrich Life