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.
WISCONSIN ASIAGO BREAD STICKS
2-1/4 pounds bread flour (about 7-1/4 cups) 2 tablespoons active dry yeast 2-1/2 cups water 1 tablespoon Kosher salt 1 tablespoon sugar 1 cup olive oil 1/2 cup chopped parsley 2 cups grated Wisconsin Asiago cheese
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Combine flour and salt in a large bowl and set aside. In another large bowl, pour in water heated to 90 degrees F. Pour sugar into the water. Sprinkle yeast on top of the water and let sit until yeast has activated and is foamy. Combine flour mixture with water mixture and knead 7 minutes or until the dough springs back when pushed down. Form kneaded dough into a ball. Rub the dough with some of the olive oil. Rub the sides of the bowl with olive oil. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and set in a warm area of the kitchen. Let dough proof until double in size. Mix chopped parsley with Asiago cheese. When dough has doubled in size, roll it out onto table. Divide dough into approximately 50 pieces. Roll breadsticks in the palm of your hand. After rolling each stick, brush with olive oil and roll in cheese mixture. Place on lightly oiled baking pan and bake in preheated 350 degree F oven until golden brown, 12 to 15 minutes. Brush with olive oil and serve.
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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