285. _A Thick Cheese._

Take 18 gallons of new milk 2 or 3 quarts of cream put a pint of good

quick runnet when it is come gether it together with your hands drain

out all the whey and wash it with warme water not to hot cut the curd

very small and strewing it about a pint of salt strewing it in as you

cut it then strain away the water then put it into your vates thin ones

first to press out the water well then put the curd out into your thick

vate besure to fill it full that it press close let it stand in the

press 2 days and 2 nights, when well press’d rub salt on the outside as

on other cheeses, when hard if any chink be in them rub them with fresh

sweet butter keep them in a dry place a year old you may eat them.

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