OSCYPEK :)

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today is the day i decided to say something about my country ... or more about something what i associate with my country ... i have no idea why i do this ... but i like the idea :D

i was thinking of the symbol i could write about ... and then ... then i thought about OSCYPEK :hungry:

oscypek is smoked hard cheese prepared from sheep's milk especially in podhale (region in poland) where sheep live  :earth:  oscypek came there with shepherds, wandering through the carpathians almost 600 years ago. IT IS SO DELICIOUS :D:D:D SO DELICIOUS ... :D ...

cheese can be produced only from may to september, and sold to the end of october. Oh well i will have to wait till spring ... :tears:

how is oscypek made ? :chew:  these are stages i learnt about in the internet :milk:

1) milking sheep;
2) decanting milk through linen cloth to "puciera" (= the wooden vessel);
3) adding "podpuszczka" (= something what causes congealing of milk);
4) stirring the milk and forming compacted mass of cheese;
5) breaking the cheese with ferula (= a wooden stick);
6) steaming of small cheese pieces;
7) forming cheese to a single block by "juhas" (the younger shepherd) with his hands;
8) doing something what i dont understand :D by "baca" (the older shepherd);
9) placing cheese in a wooden mold, which gives it a distinctive spindle-shaped with ornate cylinder in the middle;

from 2nd February 2007 oscypek is polish regional product protected by EU law :flageu: ... WOW :faint:

i hope the internet doesnt lie and everything above is true ... :pc:  of course it is :)

if you want to see oscypek, just ask google .... :spotlight-left:

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PS. :gallery:

this great journal skin was created by :iconmisscelia: IT IS SO GREAT :D thank you :D
in order to do this, Miss Celia used beautiful stock anarasha-stock.deviantart.com/… made by :iconanarasha:

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