Butter and Ice Cream Flashcards
What is a fat spread?
A food in the form of an emulsion, which is mainly of the water-in-oil type, comprising principally an aqueous phase and edible fats and oils.
What are edible fats and oils?
Foodstuffs mainly composed of triglycerides of fatty acids. Animal, margarine, milk, or vegetable origin.
What is the milk fat % in milk fat products?
100% of total fat.
What is the milk fat % in mixed fat products?
Minimum 15% and maximum 80% of total fat is milk fat.
What is the milk fat % in margarine products?
Milk fat maximum 3% of total fat.
What is butter?
The food product made exclusively from milk, cream, or both; w/ or w/o common salt, w/ or w/o additional coloring matter, and containing no less than 80 percent by weight of milkfat.
What are the 2 main categories of butter?
- Sweet Cream Butter.
- Cultured Cream Butter.
What % fat is most butter?
80%.
What % moisture is most butter?
16-18%.
Is all butter salted?
This is an optional step.
What 2 vitamins in butter naturally high in?
- Vitamin A.
- Vitamin D.
What does the color of butter depend upon?
The amount of carotenoids.
What does sweet butter taste like?
Cream.
What does cultured butter smell like?
Diacetyl.
What are the 13 steps (including optional ones) of butter making?
- Milk reception.
- Pre-heating and pasteurization of skim milk.
- Fat separation.
- Cream pasteurization.
- Vacuum deaeration (optional).
- Culture preparation (optional).
- Cream ripening and souring (optional).
- Temperature treatment.
- Churning/working, batch.
- Churning/working, continuous.
- Buttermilk collection.
- Butter silo w/ screw conveyor.
- Packaging machines.
When should pasteurization of the raw material for butter be done?
As soon as the milk/cream enters the processing plant.
What are the specifications for the raw materials used in butter making?
- Good bacteriological quality.
- Lipase-free (normally from bacteria).
- Antibiotic and/or disinfectant-free.
At what temperature is the raw material for butter making pasteurized?
> 95 C.
Why is vacuum deaeration done?
To remove any undesirable flavoring from volatile substances.
What are the 2 main bacteria used in souring and ripening?
- Leuconostoc citrovorum.
- Streptococcus diacetylactis.
What is a common undesirable flavor that occurs in butter in the summer? Why?
- Onion.
- Pastures contain wild onions.
What are the 2 reactants during the bacterial souring/ripening process?
- Lactose.
- Citric acid.
What are the 3 products from bacterial souring/ripening?
- Acetic acid.
- Diacetyl.
- Lactic acid.
What are the 4 sub-steps of churning?
- Agitation.
- Membrane rupture.
- Fat globule coalescence.
- Buttermilk separation.