[Sca-cooks] Farmer Cheese in STC, was sumthin' about faith and cellos...

[Adele de Maisieres]

Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:

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>>Can someone enlighten me on the nature of "farmer" cheese?
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>Around here, anyway, farmer cheese is a soft, drained curd cheese, a  
>little like cottage cheese drained and pressed into a very soft  
>brick. When unwrapped, from a distance it looks like a block of cream  
>cheese or feta, but when you spread it, its curdy nature becomes  
>evident, and it doesn't really melt in the sense that cheddar or  
>mozzarella melt. It gets soft, but that's about it.
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Ah, thank you-- that was roughly what I thought it would be, and I've 
even made something very similar at home.  No, I don't think it would 
toast very well.


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Adele de Maisieres

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