Home-made cumin cheese

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Home-made cumin cheese
Home-made cumin cheese

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Home-made cheese is such fun and so rewarding. It's also a lot easier than you would think.

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Stripy-shirt Cheddar
Servings:Servings: 20 - Too much for my small mould!
Calories per serving:85
Ready in:6 hours, 30 minutes
Prep. time:6 hours plus maturation period
Cook time:30 minutes
Difficulty:Difficult
Recipe author:Chef
First published:31st October 2012

This recipe for cumin flavoured Cheddar-type cheese is basically the same recipe as for Home-made Cheddar cheese apart from the flavouring.

Use a double-boiler or you will scald the milk and spoil the taste of the cheese. See here for ideas on how to improvise one.

It is vital that you don't exceed any of the stated temperatures or your cheese will fail.


Ingredients

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Mise en place

Method

  1. Warm the milk to 32° C (90° F)
  2. Mix ¼ teaspoons of freeze dried DVI starter with 4 tablespoons of lukewarm water.
  3. Whisk into the milk and stir really well so it is properly mixed.
  4. Cover and leave for 1 hour.
  5. Mix 8 drops of rennet with 4 tablespoons lukewarm water and whisk into the milk. Stir really well so it is properly mixed.
  6. Leave for 2 hours for the milk to solidify.
  7. Cut the curds with a long knife into 5 mm (1/4") cubes.
  8. Leave to rest for 20 minutes.
  9. In a double boiler, heat the outer water to 39° C (102° F), using extra heat to keep this temperature stable, and stir the curds regularly until they reach 39° C (102° F). Stir regularly and don't overheat or the curds will melt together and you'll end up with mozzarella cheese!
  10. Once the curd temperature is stable at 39° C (102° F), cook the curds for another 45 minutes. As before, stabilise by using a little extra heat - you won't need much. Stir regularly to prevent the curds knitting together. A spring-type whisk (pictured) works well for this.
  11. Drain the curds in a cheesecloth lined colander.
  12. Add them back to the double boiler, add the sea salt and cumin seeds and stir well with a whisk to break up the curds and cook for another 45 minutes at 39° C (102° F).
  13. Hang the curds in a cheesecloth for 1 hour to drain.
  14. Place the curds in a cheesecloth lined cheese mould and press at 9kg (20 lbs) for 45 minutes.
  15. Take the cheese out of the cheese mould and turn it round.
  16. Press it again at 22 kg (50 lb) for 24 hours.
  17. Remove from the cheese press and dry for 5 days at room temperature.
  18. Wrap in a sterilised cheesecloth, seal the Cheddar with a flour and water paste and mature for 3 to 24 months
  19. Unless you have a cave handy, the fridge is probably the best place to mature your homemade cheese although it's really going to be too cold. After discovering the top shelf of my often-opened fridge could be as much as 5° C warmer than the bottom, I've decided to mature my cheeses there. As all fridges differ, check various areas of your fridge with a thermometer to find the area that is around 11°C [51° F], the ideal 'cave' temperature.

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