This homemade Creole cream cheese is traditionally eaten for breakfast on toast with butter, salt and pepper, or topped with cream and fresh fruit (sugar sprinkled on top), although you can use it any way in which you might use plain yogurt.
Ingredients
- 1 gallon skim milk, at room temperature (between 70 and 80 degrees F)
- 1/2 cup cultured buttermilk
- 1/2 teaspoon rennet (6 to 8 drops)
- 6 to 7 cream cheese molds (2 cups each)
- Cheesecloth
Directions
In a large enameled saucepan, glass, or plastic bowl, combine milk, buttermilk, and rennet and stir constantly for one minute. Cover the container with plastic wrap or cheesecloth and allow to stand at room temperature (between 70 and 80 degrees F) for 16 to 24 hours. Do not stir again, or you will break the curds. The longer the mixture sits, the firmer the cheese will be.
Carefully ladle the curds into cheese molds lined with cheesecloth. (These could be plastic containers with holes punched in the sides and bottoms if you have no cheese molds.) Place molds inside a baking pan to catch the excess whey that will drain off of the cheeses. Place molds in the refrigerator for at least 6 to 8 hours, longer is fine (cheese will become firmer as more liquid drains). The cheese is now ready to eat and will keep, refrigerated, for at least two weeks.
















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By ramona2441_5124583
LAVERNE, CA
on April 15, 2006
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IT'S THE PERFECT CREAM CHEESE.
By mybluevet_4105359
Gresham, OR
on March 13, 2006
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This was awesome! I couldn't find the liquid rennet but found tablets called "junket" which worked just find. It was a lil soft (next time I add more junket but it is very, very tasty. SO simple to make.
By vampire3
Los Angeles,, CA
on July 02, 2005
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This turned out just wonderful. Much different from store bought. Just a bit runny, but this has no chemicals in it. Used food processer to make smooth, added garlic and pepper. Just the best!
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