I have just posted a recipe to the ‘Recipe’ section of this forum on making a Whole Milk Edam cheese. I know the ‘usual’ is for skim milk, but the stuff I ate in Holland was never a skim milk cheese. So elected to attempt a whole milk to see if I could duplicate the original I had, using Flora Danica as a starter.

This is one of my favourite continental cheeses and interesting in that it is ‘dunked’ into warm whey for 3 times. I say interesting as this is the best ever knit together curd I have ever produced. Absolutely seamlesss and smoooooth.

Perhaps this method might be useful to obtain those super smooth rinds that so many look for?

u forgot the pictures

I was looking for an Edom recipe.  Thanks

Mike

here is a link http://www.nnikolce.netfirms.com/Edam&Gouda;.htm

Edam is not skimmed milk cheese, it is a reduced than it’s sister Gouda

closed texture came from dipping and pressing under whey

Nabil - 16 February 2009 08:30 AM

here is a link http://www.nnikolce.netfirms.com/Edam&Gouda;.htm

Edam is not skimmed milk cheese, it is a reduced than it’s sister Gouda

Your really should make up your mind. In this post you say it’s a skimmed milk <http://www.rickandlynne.com/rick/go/forums/viewthread/680>
Now you say the opposite. When you make up your mind perhaps you would be good enough to advise me.

Thank you, i updated that post, i am not good enough to advise anyone here, this forum is just for sharing ideas, information, opinions. and we could be mistaken.

I will made up my mind twice before i post again to your posts

An update on my Whole Milk Edam.
Brined, and air dryed and now waxed.
I decided to try a different wax 60/40 paraffin/beeswax combination.
Bees wax can be extremely hard, so I added 60% paraffin wax to make a softer cover. Will see what it does, might be a cheaper source for the frugal amongst us.
Paraffin was used for years to seal food for storage, so it is food safe.
Yield 2 1/2 lbs.
This is the first attempt at adding photos, so bear with me if I screw up.

Looks Excelant !!!
Bees wax being hard?? I thingk u have that backwards. Paraffin cracks easily and adding bees wax makes it more pliable. (I used to make bees wax candles)

Not sure what you were using, but I had to hit this stuff with a hammer to break it up. I know where mine came from, a local bee hive.
Perhaps someone sold you a paraffin mixture for candle making. Did the candles smoke?

I bought the wax in slabs from a refiner that gets the wax from the bee keeps, 10lbs slabs. It is hard when cold but room temp in thin layers its pliable.