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Another Way to Make Stilton Cheese

A method for making Stilton cheese using milk, rennet, water, butter or cream, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Another Way to Make Stilton Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

Set the curd

  1. Add rennet to the milk and let it stand for 1 hour.

  2. Slowly remove the whey.

  3. Break the curd as little as possible for 1.5 hours.

  4. Pour cold water over the curd to cover it.

  5. Let the curd stand for 20 minutes.

  6. Drain the water.

Season and press

  1. Break the curd.

  2. Add salt.

  3. Rub in the butter or cream thoroughly.

  4. Place the curd in a vat under 22 ounces of pressure.

  5. Change the cloth every 6-7 hours for several days.

  6. After 5-6 days, remove the cheese from the vat.

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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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Milk
Forms the body of the cheese once rennet sets it into curd.
Rennet
Coagulates the milk proteins so the curd separates from the whey.
Butter or cream
Adds fat, giving the finished cheese a richer, smoother texture.

The step that matters

Break the curd as little as possible. Gentle handling keeps the curd pieces intact so they retain moisture. Rough breaking releases more whey and can leave the cheese dry and crumbly.

“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.

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