Name: Cheese Balls
Ingredients: 2 jars Imperial cheese; ½ can pimentos, chopped fine; mayonnaise dressing, to taste

Cheese Balls

Ingredients

2 jars Imperial cheese
½ can pimentos, chopped fine
mayonnaise dressing, to taste

Directions

Make the mixture

In a bowl, combine the Imperial cheese and chopped pimentos.
Mix in mayonnaise dressing until the mixture reaches a consistency suitable for forming balls.

Shape

Shape the mixture into small balls.

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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Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Imperial cheese: Provides the main body, rich flavor and firm structure of the balls.
Mayonnaise dressing: Adds moisture and creaminess so the mixture softens and holds together for shaping.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.