FARM TO TABLE: Amasi. Awethu! The magic of milk By Louzel Lombard Steyn
White maize is widely recognised as South Africa’s food staple, featuring in all shapes and styles from breakfast to beer. Co-starring alongside the mealie and packed with a protein punch is milk, often overlooked, but lending a more nutritional value to plainCows have to be milked daily to stimulate a continuous supply for both calves and humans.
In modern kitchens, butter is often considered but a single element in a greater dish; something you fry the onions in or baste the steak with after grilling. There’s no denying its versatility. But butter, first and foremost, is favoured in its simplest form by those who know the joy of making it from scratch.
My favourite was to drink it there and then; dunk a cup in the bucket and have it neat. Although, the processes that followed proved equally rewarding. It’s a drum-like container, assembled on the inside with a series of tapered disc stacks which are spun around by a belt and pulley; in essence, a basic centrifuge. While turning the lever, whole milk is poured in at the top. The cream, if spun around, then rises to the surface of the milk where an outlet allows it to flow off into a channel and into a bucket. Under it, the skimmed milk is forced out to the periphery of the drum into another channel and separate container.
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