[Sca-cooks] Savoury Tosted Cheese Goo

[Sandra Jakl]

I'm working on my own entry for the same savoury
toasted cheese comp. I did make my own cream cheese.
It is very tasty, but the consistency, when heated, is
much too watery. I let the first batch drip for 12
hours in a cheesecloth bag. The second batch, I
dripped for 12 hours then hand pressed some more whey
out. I'm trying to make a third new batch where I
press more of the whey out with a cheese press.

The first batch of cream cheese, when combined with
butter and heated, turned into a thin sauce. Tasty,
and as it turned out, good over pasta, but not what I
was looking for. 

The texture was a little grainy... but "ya know" that
may be more period... I don't know... 

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Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 10:26:04 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
From: Robin Carroll-Mann <rcmann4 at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Savoury Tosted Cheese Goo
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From: "Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius" 
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Isn't neufchatel kind of low-fat for this? Or is there
a major 
difference between actual neufchatel and the
neufchatel they sell as 
a low-fat cream cheese alternative? I STR that
neufchatel melts well, 
but is slightly granular, compared to cream cheese.

Adamantius
_______________________________________________

Why not make cream cheese?  Soft cheeses are very
easy, and require 
nothing in the way of special equipment.  Take milk
(enriched with cream 
to the proportions of one's liking), and some junket. 
Warm it, let it 
curdle, and drain through some muslin, and voila,
you've got non-gummy, 
non-Philly cream cheese.

A gallon of milk will produce just short of 2 pounds
of a 
neufchatel-type cheese.



Lady Brighid ni Chiarain
Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom




		
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