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Home-made Cream Cheese

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Home-made Cream Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Warm the milk in a pan until it reaches scalding point without boiling.

  2. Remove the pan to a cold place, like a refrigerator, and let it sit for six hours.

  3. Take off the cream and press it gently into glass cups, bowls, or deep saucers.

  4. Sift a little fine salt over the surface of each portion.

  5. Store in a cold place until ready to serve with heated crackers, salad, or gooseberry jam.

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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