[Sca-cooks] A Question about farmer's cheese

[Huette von Ahrens]

What do you mean there is no such thing as hoop cheese?  I use it annually in a recipe for something we eat every New Years Day that my grandmother always used to make.  I have several packages of hoop cheese in my freezer, labeled "Hoop Cheese" by Whole Foods Market, where I purchased them.

Huette


--- On Wed, 12/23/09, Pixel, Goddess and Queen <pixel at hundred-acre-wood.com> wrote:

> From: Pixel, Goddess and Queen <pixel at hundred-acre-wood.com>
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] A Question about farmer's cheese
> To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Date: Wednesday, December 23, 2009, 9:11 AM
> 
> It's a regional thing.
> 
> In MN, WI, and Chicago, "farmer's cheese" is the solid
> white mild stuff and there is really no such thing as pot
> cheese or hoop cheese. Confused the hell out of me when I
> would read recipes in cookbooks calling for a farmer's
> cheese that was obviously *not* referring to the firmer
> stuff.
> 
> Margaret FitzWilliam
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