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Cream Cheese

A cheese made from raw cream and salt, formed by straining and setting.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Cream Cheese

Cream Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Add salt to the cream and stir well.

  2. Pour the mixture into a sieve lined with a cheese cloth folded four times.

  3. Once it hardens, cover it with nettles on a pewter dish.

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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What each ingredient does

Raw cream
Its fat and proteins set into a soft, spreadable curd as it drains and firms.

“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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