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Rare cheese made from donkey milk

用驴奶制作的稀有奶酪

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Pule cheese is from Serbia. You might be surprised to hear that it's made from donkey milk. You might be even more surprised to hear that it sells for more than €1,200 a kilo.

普勒奶酪产自塞尔维亚。让你听到后可能会感到惊奇的是这种奶酪用驴奶制作的。可能会令你更加吃惊的是这种奶酪的每公斤售价超过了 1200 欧元。

The price is partly down to the fact that donkeys only produce a limited amount of milk every day.

普勒奶酪售价高昂的部分原因是驴每天生产的奶量非常有限。

During her lactation period, a female donkey can only produce 300ml of milk per day and half of this is consumed by her foal.

在哺乳期，一头母驴每天只能产 300 毫升的奶，而且其中一半要用于喂养她的小驴仔。

When you consider that just one kilo of cheese requires 20 to 30 litres of milk, you can start to see how the relative scarcity of milk makes the cheese very expensive.

当考虑到仅仅制作一公斤奶酪就需要 20 到 30 升驴奶这一点时，你就会开始明白驴奶的相对稀缺是如何让普勒奶酪变得价值不菲的。

The cheese is produced only on the Zasavica nature reserve in Serbia.

这种奶酪只在塞尔维亚的扎撒维卡自然保护区内制作。

The reserve started trying to produce the cheese over a decade ago, but found the process to be difficult as it is hard to get donkey milk to the correct consistency.

该自然保护区十多年前开始尝试制作驴奶奶酪，但发现制作过程十分困难，因为难以让驴奶达到合适的稠度。

The complicated process, and slow rate of milk production means that the reserve can only produce 25 to 30 kilos a year, making it a rare delicacy.

复杂的制作过程和驴缓慢的产奶速度意味着这个自然保护区每年只能生产 25 到 30 公斤普勒奶酪，这让它成为了一种罕见的美味佳肴。