Sour Milk Cheese or Smearkase
From Cooking for profit, 1886
Serves 10
Cost of material — 20 cents will yield 12 ounces of cheese.
Presented as published in 1886. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 113. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Sour Milk Cheese or Smearkase. Set a pan of clabbered milk on the stove when there is not much fire, and let it heat slowly without burning on the bottom. When it shows signs of boiling it should be taken ofi", as actual boiling makes the curd tough. Pour it into a piece of muslin, tie and hang on a nail to drip until next day. Chop up the ball of curd and mix with salt, pepper and cream to taste, or cream or sweet milk and sugar. Sells well at the dairy lunch houses When for sale in that way it is not ne- cessary to add any seasonings but a little salt. Serve in saucers. Cost of material — one gallon sour milk
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