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CHEESE TYPE BOARDS (for Cheese Lovers and Cheese Makers) => ADJUNCT - Blue Mold (Penicillium roqueforti) Ripened => Topic started by: lead_dog on June 03, 2013, 11:22:48 PM
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I'm interested in trying my hand at adding fruit to a white "blue", similar to http://www.gourmet-food.com/gourmet-cheese/white-stilton-cheese-with-mango-and-ginger-1000320.aspx (http://www.gourmet-food.com/gourmet-cheese/white-stilton-cheese-with-mango-and-ginger-1000320.aspx)
My question is about adding the fruit. Should it be freshly sliced? Dried? Sweetened?
Other than that, any other changes from a normal blue make procedure, other than excluding PR?
I'd appreciate any expertise you have to share.
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I would doubt that fresh mango would last very long after slicing and would break down fairly quickly.
Their list of ingredients is what you should be following:
Ingredients: Pasteurized cow's milk, sweetened dehydrated mango (mango, sugar), crystallized ginger (sugar, ginger), salt, flavoring, rennet, dairy cultures, potassium sorbate, citric acid, sodium bicarbonate, sulphar dioxide as a preservative.
The sweetened dehydrated mango (mango, sugar) and crystallised ginger (sugar, ginger) will typically have some sort of preservative, eg Sulphur Dioxide, to make then keep longer.
Look in the supermarket for for packets of dried mango and crystallised ginger.
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If you are not going to eat the cheese straight away you will need to process the fruit in some way to deactivate the enzymes in it that will start to degrade the cheese - most commonly this is done by cooking.
NV
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That sounds great. I am really interested in trying this one and will be following this thread. Please keep us updated as \ if you proceed.
John
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Thanks. That's super helpful. I'll make a batch soon and try dried peaches and share results.