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Stilton Cheese in Miniature

A small Stilton cheese made from new milk, cream, rennet, salt, and cloth.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,399 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Stilton Cheese in Miniature

Ingredients

Directions

Make the curd

  1. Warm the new milk and mix in the cream and rennet.

  2. Ladle the curd into a cloth and hang it up to drain.

  3. After draining, soak the curd in cold water for 30 minutes.

Shape and dry

  1. Gently place the curd into a vat and press it slightly with your hand.

  2. Turn the cheese in the vat daily until it hardens.

  3. Once hardened, remove it, salt it, and bind it with a cloth to maintain its shape.

  4. Continue to turn it daily until dry.

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 + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

New milk
Provides the protein and fat that form the curd and become the cheese body.
Cream
Adds fat, which makes the cheese richer and softer in texture.
Rennet
Enzyme that coagulates the milk into a solid curd for the cheese to form around.

The step that matters

Soaking the curd in cold water. Cooling the curd after draining halts acid development and firms its texture. Timing matters because too little or too much soaking changes moisture and flavour development.

“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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