HANDY RECIPES
COTTAGE CREAM CHEESE. So-called cream cheese is one of the most delicious and healthy forms of delicacy, and in these days, when American salads and vegetable savourise are used so much by hostesses at all parties, cream cheese is a necessity. Cream cheese can be used as a tasty garnishing for salads. Celery sticks stuffed with cream cheese are delicious.
Cream cheese sandwiches' made with white or wholemeal bread, with chopped gherkin, olive or nuts, are also highly appreciated. Fresh home-made cream cheese is very simple to make. The following are recipes ; (1) Heat milk to blood warm; add lemon juice slowly until it curdles. Drain it well through a fine cloth bag. Mix the drained curds with cream and a little salt. (2) Use milk that has soured naturally. Set the basin containing it in some hot water on the stove and heat gradually until the curds and whey separate. - Do not overheat, or the curd will be tough. Drain, and prepare as in the first method. (3) Use junket essence or tablets. Use according to directions on packet. Let stand twelve or eighteen hours. Gently heat until the curd is well separated, then drain and prepare as in the first method.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 47, Issue 2670, 15 September 1937, Page 2
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