Curd's cheese is a traditional Lithuanian food that has been made since ancient times. Originally, women would pour sweet and sour milk into a pot, where it would shrink and separate into curd. The curd would then be placed in a cheese bag and squeezed to extract the whey. Nowadays, the process is slightly different - women beat eggs and sour cream together, then slowly mix it into boiling milk while stirring continuously until small curd pieces form. The curd mixture is then placed in a colander to drain before being shaped and refrigerated. Curd's cheese remains an important part of Lithuanian cuisine and breakfast culture.

1. Lithuanian curd’s
cheese

2. Curd’s cheese is traditional Lithuanian
food.
From ancient times, making this kind of
white cheese is spread in Lithuania.
Life has changed, but curd’s cheese
dominate on our breakfast table like many
years ago.

3. Making of the old curd’s cheese
 Women pour sweet and sour milk in the
pot. From two types of milk, curd will be
sweeter than from one.
 Milk shrinks and they got curd. Women put
this product in a sack for cheese (in
Lithuanian sūrmaišis - cheesebag). Then it
is squeezed. From 8 liters of milk they got
about 1kilo weight curd’s cheese.

5. Lithuanians made cheese like that
some time ago.
I’m glad, that this cheese is being
made now, but... Differently

6. Making of our days curd’s cheese
 Women beat the eggs, put sour cream and salt
and stir again.
 They boil milk and slowly pour sour cream-eggs
mixture. Women stir nonstop, until form small
pieces of curd.
 Women pour all mass in the colander and let to
drop about 20 minutes before cheese get shape.
 Then put it on the slate, depress with another
slate from above and keep it for 4-5 hours. After
that, the cheese is put on the plate and into the
fridge.

8. Curd’s cheese
with jam and
berries
Curd’s cheese
with cumin
Curd’s cheese
with poppy
Curd’s cheese
with honey

9. Curd’s cheese
with jelly
Fried curd’s
cheese with
honey and chili

10. Curd’s cheese – traditional
Lithuanian food and
Lithuanians’ ancestral legacy,
which did not disappear

11. Thank you for your attention 