The Queen's Cheese

Ingredients

• six quarts of the best stroakings
• two quarts of cream
• a quart of fair water
• the yolks of two eggs
• one spoonful of sugar
• two spoonfuls of runnet

Method

1. 1

   Let the stroakings stand till cold; boil the cream, then boil the water.

2. 2

   Mingle the yolks, sugar, and runnet, stir till blood warm; when the cheese is formed, use it as other cheese.

3. 3

   Set it at night, and shift nettles under and over it daily for three weeks.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine (1886) by William Carew Hazlitt, page 40. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

The Queen's Cheese: — Take six quarts of the best stroakings, and let them stand till they are cold ; then set two quarts of cream on the fire till ’tis ready to boil ; then take it off, and boil a quart of fair water, and take the yolks of two eggs, and one spoonful of sugar, and two spoonfuls of runnet

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.