Dairy Processing

This book outlines traditional methods of processing milk to produce cheese, butter, yoghurt and other milk products, and how hygiene and quality control can be improved. It avoids introducing completely new products or processes, but suggests low-cost modifications to traditional methods which can be and have been introduced successfully.

Table des matières

Part 1 Milk processing: general methods of milk processing; milk composition; microbiology of milk; classification of milk products. Part 2 Traditional methods and products: cheeses; butters; fermented milks; miscellaneous milk products. Part 3 Improving milk processing technologies: sanitation and hygiene; heat treatment; testing milk quality; improvements to cheesemaking; improvements to buttermaking; improvements to fermented milk processing. Part 4 Socio-economic considerations: understanding the context; identifying constraints; planning options; checklist for increasing options for milk processing. Part 5 Case studies: buttermaking using an internal agitator, Ethiopia; village dairy development in the occupied territories, Israel; goat-cheesemaking and marketing, Chile; goat and milk production, Argentina; rural women's milk production, Bolivia; traditional sweetmeats, Bangladesh; mala milk, Tanzania.

A propos de l'auteur

UNIFEM was established in 1976, and is an autonomous body associated since 1984 with the United Nations Development Programme. UNIFEM seeks to free women from underproductive tasks and augment the productivity of their work as a means of accelerating the development process

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Unifem
• Collaboration: Intermediate Technology Publications (Editeur), Unifem (Editeur), Unifem Unifem (Editeur), United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) (Editeur)
• Edition: Practical Action Publishing
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 15.12.1996
• EAN: 9781853393358
• ISBN: 978-1-85339-335-8
• Pages: 72
• Dimensions: 173 mm x 241 mm x 8 mm
• Poids: 204 g
• Thèmes: Food cycle technology source books; Food Cycle Technology Source B; Food Cycle Technology Source Book; Food Cycle Technology Source Books; Food Cycle Technology Source B
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Politique, société, économie > Politique; Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Biologie > Agriculture, horticulture; sylviculture, pisciculture, alimentation