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One-Meal Cheese

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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One-Meal Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour warm milk into a cheese tub.

  2. Add rennet and wait for coagulation.

  3. Cut the curd with a cheese knife in various directions.

  4. Allow curd to subside, then cut again into smaller particles.

  5. Cover the tub with a cloth and let it sit for about 20 minutes.

  6. Ladle off the whey.

  7. Press the curd to remove more whey using a skimming dish or weight.

  8. Cut the curd again to promote whey separation.

  9. Put curd into separate vessels and break it into small pieces with your hands.

  10. Sprinkle salt over the curd and mix well.

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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