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True Mozzarella only from Water Buffalo milk ~ !
A little Mozzarella Cheese Story :
2,000 years ago Rome was the master of the world and Julius Caesar was the master of Rome. One of Rome's many conquests was the country of Egypt and its beautiful Queen Cleopatra. Caesar returned to Rome and sent his counsel, Anthony, to administer the conquest.
Legend has it that Anthony and Cleopatra fell in love and spent many idyllic hours cruising the Nile on the barges pulled by water buffalo, eating sumptuous meals and feasting on cheese made from the milk of the water buffalo. The Egyptians, seeing the passion between the two, came to regard the protein and vitamin rich cheese as a prime motivator in this mad affair. Anthony became such a lover of the cheese he sent water buffalo back to Rome as a gift to Caesar, with instructions on how to make the milk into mozzarella. Overnight the cheese became a staple of the Roman diet and all of Southern Italy. The breeding of the water buffalo became a passion in its own right in the area between Rome and Naples. Over the centuries, the wholesomeness of the produce sustained the Italian people and could not be duplicated anywhere else.
Until Now - come enjoy the fresh taste- made in the good ol'- USA!
Water Buffalo Milk to Cheese - Yield:
With fresh buffalo milk with a FAT 8.3% and 4.3% of
proteins, you get an average of 24.6%. I.e. from the processing of 1 quintal of
buffalo milk gets over 24 Kg of mozzarella, against 13 Kg obtained an average of
1 quintal of milk. Buffalo milk yield is, in this case, in excess of
approximately 1.8 times that of cows ' milk. To get a pound of mozzarella di
bufala serve approximately 4 and a half litres of milk.
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Links to Cheese !
Ramini Mozzarella - handcrafted in the USA!
Casatica is a rich water-buffalo cheese
Water Buffalo - Fortaleza Ranch Milking.
Ethology - Study of WB Behavior Milking
Water Buffalo Milk Composition - Low in cholesterol~!
Wikipedia- Mozzarella
Natural Pastures Cheese Co. - BC - Canada
Palmer's UK Buffalo milk Operation
Napton Water Buffalo - UK - Milk, Cheese Meat etc.
Compared with cow’s milk, water buffalo milk is pure white, smoother, thicker and tastier; it contains less water and more solids. Simply Mother Nature at it's best!
Following from IndiaDairy.Com - Other interesting facts at this site.
"The high-yielding Murrah is the Holstein-Friesian of the buffalo world. There is no reason why the Murrah and other riverine breeds should not exceed the volumetric yield of the best milk cows. Buffalo milk contains about twice as much butterfat as cow milk. There is no physiological need for concentrate feed to maintain this level. When concentrates are fed, the fat content rises. When fed ad lib, it can exceed 15 per cent. Fed to excess, this figure can be much higher. The buffalo, in fact, releases unwanted fat in the milk and stores only a minimum in the body tissues."
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