MAKING OF PASTILLAS DE LECHE

                As a part of processing one of animal’s products which is milk, we made a pastillas de leche. It is another kind of food that every Filipinos love to eat especially for all children. It can be consume as a kind of candy or dessert for us because of its sweetness of taste. We make it in a very practical but simple ways, first we must prepare all the things that we are going to use in making of it. These are the things that we should prepare in making pastillas de leche, we need 1 liter of fresh milk and is should be undergone pasteurizing before to use, a wooden ladle that we will use in continued stirring the milk while in the process, ½ kg of sugar which will be mix in the pasteurized fresh milk, a wax paper that will be used in packing the processed pastillas, a lighter that will be used in starting a flame in a stove that we will l be using in cooking and a food container that will be used in keeping or storing the process pastillas while on the process of cooling, storing it on refrigerator to prepare it for packing.

                After preparing all the things that will be needed in processing, these are the methods. First we use the lighter to start a flame in a stove, let’s start in a low mode of fire, place the cooking pan and wait until it become hot. When the cooking pan is already hot, we can already put the fresh milk and let’s wait until it slightly boiled, this is under heat processing of milk in order to undergone the process of pasteurizing, the low mode of fire she should be always observed. After under heat processing, we can put now the sugar, in a 1 liter of milk we can put 2 and ½ cups of sugar, we can taste and adjust it for our better taste of satisfaction. And after this, we will stir the milk continually for almost more or less than an hour until it became sticky like what an ordinary pastllas texture has. After processing the pastillas, let’s transfer it in a container for preparing it in storing in a refrigerator for cooling for about 45 minutes. And after cooling, we can now pack the made pastillas de leche using the wax paper in our own wants design and size. After packing, it depends to us what we will do or we can also store it in a refrigerator before to consume for more better taste and texture.

                These are the simple ways, our own pastillas de leche was done. We can make it for our own purpose, it can be used for our food or a source of income. We can add flavor in it for much better taste and appearance that will meet the satisfaction of every consumers if we are going to used it in a source of our profit. Well, the status our life is depending on us, depends on how we are going to use all agricultural products with the help our perseverance and knowledge.