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Excellent Cream Cheese

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Excellent Cream Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place an oaken frame lined with a large piece of linen cloth.

  2. Pour the cream into the frame and set it on a dish or table to drain the whey.

  3. Change the cheese daily into a clean, dry cloth until it adheres to the cloth.

  4. Coat the cheese once a day with fresh leaves of stinging nettle until ripe.

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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