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The historic journey of the yogurt
As it seems, the Egyptian pharaohs consumed yogurt done with gazelle milk or antelope; it’s also said that the beautiful queen Cleopatra discovered the cosmetic properties of this singular product, appreciated still nowadays, and used it as face pack. On the other hand, historic personages as prestigious as Hippocrates and Physician they considered that the purified yogurt the "ardent stomachs" Since in the century XVI, in France, the king Francisco I (1494-1547), affected by intestinal inconveniences that his doctors did not manage to cure, called to his court to a Jewish doctor of Constantinople famous for achieving almost miraculous healings in similar cases, thanks to a milk jelled whose preparation maintained in secret. The doctor arrived at Paris on foot, accompanied by a flock of sheep; the processing had It went without revealing the secret…of yogurt.
The Russian Nobel Prize winner Illya Metchnickoff, published in 1907 a work titled “The extension of Life”, in which maintained that the longevity and excellent health of the Balkan peasants had its origin in the charitable effects of certain bacteria that presents in the yogurt were found, a routine food for them. Although the present medicine have it despoiled of its halo of curative element. A prestige deserved, without doubt, by its authentic virtues at least is a solution for the people with intolerance to the lactose; in the yogurt the lactose is transformed into lactic acid, what facilitates the digestion.
Obtaining Yogurt
The yogurt is easy to do at home further on we will indicate diverse systems to prepare it and some of the possible varieties, according to our preferences: with whole milk, skimmed or enriched; natural or well with fruits or flavors. Also we will suggest some prescriptions that show the multiple possibilities of its employment in the most various culinary preparations: since this incorporation to sauces and dressings to its noticeable presence in culinary for the time being, we will recall and the lactic bacteria selected that they are utilized at present in its production: the Streptococcus thermophilus and the Lactobacillus bulgaricus. The join of these bacteria favors the good final result.
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