Homemade cream cheese
Chef Vítor Sobral and 10th-grade students from the Professional Cooking/Pastry course at Escola Leonardo Coimbra — Filho (Porto)
Ingredients:
2 and – 230 g
- Unpasteurised milk, 2 litres
- 200 g unsalted butter
- Traditional sea salt 1 tsp
- Pear vinegar 8 tablespoons
Preparation:
Pour 2 litres of milk and 1 teaspoon of salt into a saucepan.
Stir continuously and, when it reaches 80º, turn off the heat and add 8 tablespoons of vinegar; stir and watch as the curds separate from the whey.
Leave to stand for a few minutes whilst placing 2 strainers over 2 bowls and covering them with 2 squares of cotton cloth.
Divide the cheese between the 2 strainers. Once they have drained thoroughly, stir in the butter and chill for 1 hour before serving.
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