Finnish ” Squeaky” Cheese Recipe

Juustoa – Finnish ” Squeaky” Cheese

photo by Scibba

Ready In:

1hr 40mins

Ingredients:

5

Yields:

1 large cheese

ingredients

• 2 gallons milk
• 3 tablespoons sugar
• 3 tablespoons cornstarch
• 2 tablespoons salt
• 1 teaspoon rennet

directions

• Heat milk to 90°F and add sugar, cornstarch, salt and rennet.
• Stir, and remove from heat.
• Let set until gelled.
• When set, cut in x’s with a spoon until the consistency of cottage cheese.
• After cutting, let settle for another 30 minutes until they mat together at the bottom of pot.
• Drain off whey.
• Place the curd into a 10×12 cake pan and broil until browned.
• Remove and cool enough to flip curd over.
• Once you flip it over, you may spread with a little butter and lightly salt.
• Broil again, until browned.

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Reviews

1. This is delicious and tastes just like my grandpa used to make. I usually buy this in the store, because I thought it would be hard to make, but it was SO EASY. I looked last week and they were selling Juusota for $10.49/lb!!!! I definitely saved money making it myself. I used a cloth baby diaper to strain the curd from the whey, I tried cheese cloth, but the curd kept getting stuck. I could only find rennet in tablet form, so I used 1½ tablets. The recipe didn’t state which type of milk, so I used whole milk and also added a can of evaporated milk.

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