The Lady's Country Companion; Or, How to Enjoy a Country Life RationallyLoudon, Mrs. (Jane)
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The Lady's Country Companion; Or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
Loudon, Mrs. (Jane)
Cooking; Country life; Home economics
A _York cream cheese_ is made by taking a quart of new milk warm from
the cow, into which is sometimes put half a pint of cream, and adding
to it two spoonfuls of the water in which a piece of rennet has been
steeped all night. The milk is then set before the fire till the curd
is formed, when it should be taken up without breaking, if possible,
and put into a frame made of oak wood, seven inches long within, four
inches wide, and three inches and a half deep. This frame being open at
the top and bottom, it must be placed upon rushes to permit the whey
to run out; to encourage which, a board must be put within the frame
to support a weight to press down the curd, between which and the curd
some rushes must be put. After standing two days, the rushes must be
renewed, when the cheese should be taken from the vat and turned as
often as necessary. This will make an excellent cream cheese without
the cream; and, indeed, the York cheeses sold in the shops are always
made of milk only, without any cream. The rushes should be sewed
together with thread.
A kind of cream cheese is, however, made in Yorkshire of cream only,
without any rennet. "Take any quantity of cream and put it into a wet
cloth. Tie it up, and hang it in a cool place for seven or eight days.
Then take it from the cloth and put it into a mould (in another cloth)
with a weight upon it, for two or three days longer. Turn it twice a
day, when it will be fit for use."
The following is a receipt for making a _Bath cream cheese_. Add half a
pint of cream to a quart of new milk, and warm the mixture till it is
about 80° of Fahrenheit; then stir in as much rennet as will coagulate
it. As soon as the curd has formed, put a cloth over the bottom of a
large shallow vat, and, taking the curd up with a skimming-dish, place
it in the vat and wrap the cloth over it. As the curd shrinks, the
vat must be filled up with fresh curd, till the cheese is of a proper
thickness. When the cheese has become a little firm, it is turned out
of the vat and laid in a dry cloth. A board is then put over it, on
which is placed a weight of two pounds. At night it is put into another
clean cloth, and the next morning it is slightly salted with a little
fine dry salt, and placed on a bed of fresh nettles or strawberry
leaves, being covered with leaves of the same kind. These leaves are
changed every morning, and the cheese is turned twice a day for a
fortnight, after which it is fit for use.
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