An American cheese product that melts beautifully on hamburgers. Perfect for cheese toasties, Welsh rarebit, burgers, nachos, or topping a lasangne.

The cheese is processed to help prevent oils splitting from it when melting and to lower the melting point.

Ingredients

Quantity	Measure	Ingredient
525	g	shredded cheddar cheese
75	g	parmesan or similar hard cheese
150	ml	full cream full (2%)
2	tbs	butter
1/2	tsp	salt
4	tsp	sodium citrate

Optional

Quantity	Measure	Ingredient
1	tsp	Kashmiri chilli powder

Pour the milk, butter, salt, and sodium citrate into a pan and warm it on a medium / high heat.
Stir occasionally as it warms.
Shred the cheese and add it in a handful at a time. Stir to incorporate it. Keep going until it is all in the pot.
Adjust the thickness if needed by adding some milk if too thick, or cheese if too thin.
Place a sheet of baking paper over an American half sheet pan (457mm x 330mm).
Pour the cheese over the paper and spread with a rubber spatula. Be quick, it sets fast.
Optionally toss another sheet over the top of the cheese and roll with a rolling pin to even it all out a bit.
Cool it in the fridge.
When it’s set, place it on a large cutting board and use the thinnest and sharpest knife (e.g. boning knife) you have to slice it through the paper. This will give it perfectly matching sheets of paper to keep it fresh and not stick.