Iron Chef Milk cheese was Re: [Sca-cooks] jellied milk
Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
adamantius.magister at verizon.net
Tue Jul 6 06:09:18 PDT 2004
Also sprach Kerri Martinsen:
>On Iron Chef last night the theme was Milk. One of the guys made a "quick
>cheese" using milk and vinegar. Has anyone ever done that? It looked like
>he used 2 quarts of milk to about 1 to 1 1/2 c of vinegar, but you never can
>really tell what they are doing.
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Vitha
It's a pretty standard method in Mexico for queso blanco, and in
India, a similar method using lemon juice is used to make panir. Both
usually end up fresh, but drained and firm, curd cheeses a little
like firm tofu.
Panir shows up in Indian cookery in various ways, but often fried in
little cubes and added to various dishes as a protein supplement.
Queso blanco is eaten in several different ways in Mexico, including
alongside fruit and mashed into stuffings for pastries and chiles.
I can see the allure for such a cheese in Japan... strongly-flavored
dairy products tend to be looked upon with some suspicion in the
largely lactose-intolerant Far East.
Unless this was Bobby Flay?
Adamantius
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>On 7/6/04 7:46 AM, "a5foil" <a5foil at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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>> This recipe looks like it is identical to the one in "Food and Cooking in
>> 16th Century Britain" by Peter Brears. The original is from The good
>> huswifes Jewell pt. 2.
>>
>> A white leach: Take a quarte of newe milke, and three ounces weight of
>> Isinglasse, half a pounde of beaten suger, and stirre them together, and let
>> it boile half a quarter of an hower till it be thicke, stirring them al the
>> while: then straine it with three sponfull of Rosewater, then put it into a
>> platter and let it coole, and cut it in squares. Lay it faire in dishes, and
>> lay golde upon it.
>>
>> My apprentice Naomi served this a number of years ago at a small feast here
>> in Caer Mear, I believe between courses as part of a platter of dried fruit
>> and nuts. The people who tried it seemed to like it, but IIRC some folks
>> were scared off by it's dead-white appearance.
>>
>> Cynara
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