Name: Juustoa - Finnish " Squeaky" Cheese
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 1 h 40 min
Yield: 1 large cheese
Ingredients: 2 gallons milk; 3 tablespoons sugar; 3 tablespoons cornstarch; 2 tablespoons salt; 1 teaspoon rennet

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Recipe by LiisaN

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Finnish Squeaky Cheese - when eaten warmed, it squeaks. A favorite in the northern UP/Mich area - and among the Finns. My dad often, would take a cube and drop it in his coffee to heat the cheese. It's very mild.

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ingredients

2 gallons milk
3 tablespoons sugar
3 tablespoons cornstarch
2 tablespoons salt
1 teaspoon rennet

directions

Heat milk to 90°F and add sugar, cornstarch, salt and rennet.
Stir, and remove from heat.
Let set until gelled.
When set, cut in x's with a spoon until the consistency of cottage cheese.
After cutting, let settle for another 30 minutes until they mat together at the bottom of pot.
Drain off whey.
Place the curd into a 10x12 cake pan and broil until browned.
Remove and cool enough to flip curd over.
Once you flip it over, you may spread with a little butter and lightly salt.
Broil again, until browned.

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"Finnish Squeaky Cheese - when eaten warmed, it squeaks. A favorite in the northern UP/Mich area - and among the Finns. My dad often, would take a cube and drop it in his coffee to heat the cheese. It's very mild."

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review by Dave A.

3/19/2017

Didnt care for this recipe at all, poor taste and did not gel for me. I found the directions to be very poor on explaining on how to make it.
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12/6/2010

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review by Scibba

12/4/2010

This is delicious and tastes just like my grandpa used to make. I usually buy this in the store, because I thought it would be hard to make, but it was SO EASY. I looked last week and they were selling Juusota for $10.49/lb!!!! I definitely saved money making it myself. I used a cloth baby diaper to strain the curd from the whey, I tried cheese cloth, but the curd kept getting stuck. I could only find rennet in tablet form, so I used 1½ tablets. The recipe didn't state which type of milk, so I used whole milk and also added a can of evaporated milk.

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creation by LiisaN

12/21/2003

Finnish Squeaky Cheese - when eaten warmed, it squeaks. A favorite in the northern UP/Mich area - and among the Finns. My dad often, would take a cube and drop it in his coffee to heat the cheese. It's very mild.