A few hints make cooking with Wisconsin cheese an easy and tasty success: Use low heat, just enough to melt the cheese and blend it with other ingredients. High heat makes natural cheese tough and stringy. Avoid long cooking, which also makes cheese tough and stringy; cook just enough to melt. To promote even melting, slice, shred, grate, cube or dice cheese before adding as an ingredient.
CHEESE RAREBIT FONDUE
1 can (10-3/4 oz.) Cheddar cheese soup 1 cup shredded sharp Wisconsin Cheddar cheese 1 tsp. dry mustard 1/2 tsp. paprika 2 Tbsp. butter Pinch cayenne pepper 1/3 cup beer (nonalcoholic works fine) 1 loaf day-old French or Italian bread or English muffins, cut into 1-inch cubes, toasted for 10 minutes in a 350 degree oven Fresh minced parsley (optional garnish)
Method: Combine soup, Cheddar cheese, mustard, paprika, butter, cayenne and beer over low heat in saucepan or fondue pot. Stir often until cheese melts and mixture is blended and hot.
If not using a fondue pot, transfer cheese from saucepan to heat-proof bowl and place over warming tray or candle-heated trivet to keep warm. Sprinkle cheese fondue with parsley, if desired. Dip cubes of bread into warm cheese.
Cheese is a nutritious milk product that has been one of man's most important foods for thousands of years. The United States and France rank as the leading cheese-producing countries. Wisconsin is the leading cheese making state. Wisconsin Cheese comes in about 350 varieties and in many different sizes and shapes. There are literally several thousands of varieties world wide.
History of Cheese Making
Widmer's Wisconsin Cheese Legacy...
In Wisconsin, the cheese making
legacy runs deep and examples of
third-and fourth generation
Wisconsin cheese makers carrying
on the family tradition are common.
Joe Widmer, is one such third-generation example. Widmer's Cheese Legacy
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