Quark (dairy Product)
Quark or quarg is a type of fresh dairy product made from milk. The milk is souring, soured, usually by adding lactic acid bacteria cultures, and strained once the desired curdling is achieved. It can be classified as Fresh cheese, fresh Sour milk cheese, acid-set cheese. Traditional quark can be made without rennet, but in modern dairies small quantities of rennet are typically added. It is soft, white and unaged, and usually has no salt added. It is traditional in the cuisines of Baltic states, Baltic, Germanic peoples, Germanic and Slavic languages, Slavic-speaking countries. Dictionaries sometimes translate it as curd cheese, cottage cheese, farmer cheese or junket (dessert), junket. In Germany, quark and cottage cheese are considered to be different types of fresh cheese and quark is often not considered cheese at all, while in Eastern Europe cottage cheese is usually viewed as a type of quark (e.g. Russian language, Russian for cottage cheese is "зернёный Ñ‚Ð²Ð¾Ñ ...
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