Fromage à La Creme*

Cream Cheese

Preparation info
  • For a cheese sufficient for

    four

    people
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in

By Countess Morphy

Published 1935

  • About

This delicious sour milk cheese is a great luncheon dish in France, and is nearly always eaten with sugar. When wild strawberries are in season they are often served with fromage à la crême.

Ingredients

  • pints of milk
  • a few tablespoons of cream

Method

Put the milk in a jug and keep it in a warm place till it sours and becomes solid. On no account must the milk be soured with rennet. When solid, put it in a piece of butter muslin, gather the ends together to form a bag, and hang this over a basin in a cool place to drain for twelve hours or so. It is then put in a basin, mixed with a little milk, and sometimes put into a moul