Alkmaar and Cheese
August 30th, 2010 | 
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Netherlands which has a marshy soil conditions and also muddy really more suitable for use as land for farming than for farming. Farmers in the Netherlands started producing animals and vegetables to be traded, one of which is cheese. This cheese needs will continue to rise and the long run to make cheese as one of the potential products for export. The Netherlands became the first country to export cheese. In the 17th century, cheese production increased in line with the changing order of the Dutch land which is mostly ocean to the mainland in several ways, including reclamation. Industrialization began in the 19th century made the cheese more attractive buyers from other countries and currently, the Netherlands is the largest exporter of cheese in the world.
At the beginning of cheese production was started from a small scale in people’s homes. In production, the farmers who produce milk, assisted by his wife, and children to make cheese. Quality cheese and butter are very dependent on the quality of their milk, so farmers are always keeping their best milk quality. Cheese-making process begins with a variety of ways. One of them after the year 1880, a new method invented by Swede Adolf Swartz is a new process where the milk is still warm milked (a new direct from the cow milking) inserted into a high and a large vat with water flowing in it. Tong is a special place which is usually also equipped with a mixer which is set automatically. At the time of the making of cheese, three other supplementary materials used are substances called “rennet”, lactic acid (also called as a starter), and also dyes. Rennet is made from the fourth stomach of calves. Because children are always given a lot of cow’s milk, in the stomach contains an enzyme that very much. Rennet is helping change the protein from the milk into solid curds, or the clumps.
After clot-curd turned into a solid and then inserted into a mold which is covered by a special fabric and mold are compressed using a special tool. Cheese mold serve targeted and also the emphasis varies depending on the type of cheese itself. From the northern region, Edam was produced in small and round like a ball, and given the name of Edam. Because the cheese production provides income for many families, the cheese is also used as gifts from parents to their children while married. Cheese is decorated in such a way and given name initials and wedding date.
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