Poppy Tooker

Creole Cream Cheese

Preparation info
  • Yields approximately

    8 pints

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Louisiana Eats!: The People, the Food, and Their Stories
Louisiana Eats!

By Poppy Tooker

Published 2013

  • About

Here’s the recipe for New Orleans’ beloved Creole cream cheese, whose cause Brett helped champion with his pen.

Ingredients

  • 1 gal. skim milk
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • Pinch salt

Method

In a large stainless steel or glass bowl, combine all ingredients. Cover lightly with plastic wrap and leave out on kitchen counter at room temperature for 18 to 24 hours. You will then find one large cheese curd floating in whey.

Take 8 pint-sized cheese molds (or make your own) and a slotted spoon and spoon large pieces of the cheese into the molds. Put molds on a rack in a roasting p