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1½ cups
Medium
By Helen Witty and Elizabeth Schneider
Published 1979
Is this cheese really different? Yes. Unless you have lingered over a mouthful of homemade cream cheese, you can have no idea of its distinctive qualities: suaveness; a rich, matured cream flavor; delicacy of texture; and a pale-cream rather than chalky color. It is somewhat softer than commercial cream cheese, but it is richer, with body derived from butterfat rather than the gummy additives that many manufacturers use, together with skim milk, in their cream cheese. To make it you