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Cheese, Stilton

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Cheese, Stilton

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Scoop out a little cheese in three or four places.

  2. Pour good port or old ale into the holes.

  3. Stop the holes with the scooped-out cheese.

  4. Allow the cheese to sit for two to three weeks.

  5. When ready to serve, cut a slice of rind about ¼ inch thick from the top.

  6. Replace the rind slice on top of the cheese before serving.

  7. Keep the cheese closely covered in a damp place.

  8. Serve with a clean napkin neatly pinned around it.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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