raclette recipe needed

[lauraj]

Hi everyone,
our jersey cow will probably calf today. does anyone know of a raclette cheese recipe.

my swiss farming friend is travelling,so can`t get hers at the moment. got into this and fondue while in switzerland for a year,recently.

i am living in shetland,crofting for our selves ie not as a business.

[jenny_haddow]

Hi lauraj

Try this site, there are scores of interesting recipes here.



http://www.raclette-suisse.ch/content/template_u2_1.html?recipe_id=23&l=en&m=2&s=2&ss=0


Cheers

Jen

[Spuddy]

Jen
I think lauraj was after a recipe/method for making the cheese itself.

Nice find though, good ideas there.

BR

Spuddy

[jenny_haddow]

Try Rik's guru Fankhauser:


http://biology.clc.uc.edu/fankhauser/Cheese/Swiss_Cheese/Swiss_Cheese.html

I thought raclette was melted cheese over whatever takes your fancy, but apparently not:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raclette

I can remember reading Heidi as a child and the old grandfather melting cheese over the fire and scraping it over his bread. I always wondered how he did it without making a mess of the fireplace. Needless to say my mother wasn't one to allow experiments based on what you had read in a book!