Skip to main content

Cheese

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
Jump to recipe ↓
Cheese

Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Warm the milk until it is just below boiling.

  2. Add enough rennet to curdle the milk and cover it.

  3. Let it sit until the curd is formed.

  4. Press the curd down with a skimming dish and keep it covered.

  5. Fill a vat with the curd, squeezing it tightly with your hands.

  6. Line the vat with cheese cloth before filling it.

  7. Once filled, cover the curd with cheese cloth.

  8. Salt the curd after the whey has drained.

  9. Place a board under and over the vat and press for 2 hours.

  10. Remove the cheese, cover with fresh cheese cloth, and press for another 10 hours.

  11. Salt the cheese all over and press it again for 20 hours.

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.

Photo for illustrative purposes only · Contact us to use it

More cheese recipes

You might also like