More chocolate making today. A big block for Jean in case she needs to make more Hazelnut Brownies which have been a huge success at morning tea. You have to have something to look forward to each day.
I made a standard issue block with roasted peanuts and then two small batches of samples. One batch was just chocolate with some Coconut flour for thickening and flavour. This wasn't refrigerated until the next day to ensure the flour full absorbed. And a small batch with just roasted Coconut chips/shreds. We are using only Dextrose for sweetening and keeping the levels lower than usual but adding more Cocoa powder to get that really chocolaty flavour.
The technique we use for drying cheese prior to cheese coating seems to work very well with the resultant cheeses not having excess moisture when opened nor being too dry. Once the cheese is brined it is put on a cheese mat to drain for 24 hours then a paper towel is folded to the size of the cheese and placed beneath to absorb liquid. Each cheese has two paper towels. One drying the cheese and one being dried before reuse. These two towels are alternated until the moisture on the towel does not form a full impression of the cheese. At this stage the cheese coating starts and when two coats are applied to the top half of the cheese it is flipped over and the bottom half done. And then finally the wax and label applied and into the cheese refrigerator to age.
Tonight we looked at two blue cheeses aging in the refrigerator. A stilton and a mock Roquefort.
The Stilton is just right. Fully ripened with not only good blue mould in the needle holes but also blue mould throughout the cavities. The mock Roquefort has good blue formation in the holes but has not fully ripened. You can see in the photograph how it is gooey around the outside but still a bit chalky in the centre. Another couple of weeks at least. It still tastes good though
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