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Cream Cheese

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Cream Cheese

Cream Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the milk.

  2. Add the same quantity of rennet as for junket when the milk is nearly cool.

  3. Let it stand until the whey separates from the curds.

  4. Remove the curds and mix them with salt.

  5. Tie the curds in a clean fine cloth and hang until moisture drips out.

  6. Press the curds into shape with the back of a spoon.

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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