Making Hard Cheese at Home

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Learn to make cheese at home. Healthy, delicious and versatile, you can use your cheese in a wide variety of recipes.
Learn to make cheese at home. Healthy, delicious and versatile, you can use your cheese in a wide variety of recipes.
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Step 3: Mix in rennet.
Step 3: Mix in rennet.
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Step 2: Add starter (optional).
Step 2: Add starter (optional).
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Step 4: Let set until curd breaks cleanly.
Step 4: Let set until curd breaks cleanly.
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Step 5: Cutting the Curd.
Step 5: Cutting the Curd.
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Step 6: Stir curd by hand.
Step 6: Stir curd by hand.
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Step 7: Warm slowly for one hour.
Step 7: Warm slowly for one hour.
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Step 12: Dress the cheese.
Step 12: Dress the cheese.
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Step 10: Salt the curd.
Step 10: Salt the curd.
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Step 13: Press cheese.
Step 13: Press cheese.
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Step 9: Pour curd.
Step 9: Pour curd.
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Step 11: Form into a ball.
Step 11: Form into a ball.
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Step 14: Paraffin, then store in cool place.
Step 14: Paraffin, then store in cool place.

The recipe that follows is a basic formula for producing
natural (uncolored, unprocessed) hard cheese at home. Keep
in mind, however, that domestic cheesemaking is an
imprecise art at best. Many variables—such as how

  • Published on May 1, 1976
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