Home-made Cheese
Posted in Recipes by Harley
Here in Finland there’s a type of cheese called kotijuusto (home cheese). They probably have something like this in English but I couldn’t find it so here’s »the recipe for cheese I used.
Ingredients
1 litre of whole-fat milk
1/2 litre of sour milk (piimää in Finnish)
2 eggs
Enough salt to taste.
Directions
Heat the milk to boiling point.
In a seperate mixing bowl mix the sour milk and eggs together.
Take the milk off the stove, add the sour milk mix to the milk slowly, stirring all the time. Blobs of stuff should appear in the mixture.
Put the saucepan back on the stove and heat it again until boiling point.
Take the saucepan off the stove (don’t stir again!).
Now leave the cheese to form. The mixture will seperate. It’s ready for the next stage when the top layer of liquid is transparent.
Put a cheese cloth (I use kitchen roll) in the bottom of a sieve and tip your cheese mix in there.
Leave it to drain off all the whey.
Mix salt in with your cheese. About one teaspoon is enough.
Put the cheese on a plate. The aim is to have light pressure on the cheese to squeeze out the liquid. I put my cheese on a plate, cover it with a few layers of kitchen roll, then put another plate on the top.
Put it in the fridge to mature overnight.
You should now have a crumbly cheese which is really nice on crispy bread or with raspberries. Yummmm.