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/ˈt͡ʃiːzlɪt/ · noun
(chiefly Malta) A small, usually roundish lump of cheese; a baby cheese; specifically, a particular type made with sheep's milk in Malta..
CHEESELETS. A saucer three-fourths full of grated cheese, mix with it the whites of thee eggs beaten stiff, add a pinch of salt, a few drops of Worcestershire sauce. Form into balls, roll in cracker crumbs (very fine), drop in boiling lard. To be made during the dinner and served directly with the salad.
Milk free from foreign deleterious spores will produce cheeselets which are pliant without trace of gas development, that is free from 'holes' or 'eyes,' whereas the cheeselets from the milk not fit for cheesemaking will by this treatment be crumbly, leathery, spongy, shriveled, huffed or otherwise abnormal.
Dr. Debono then commented on the interesting problem of the local cheeselets. While these in Malta are supposed to be made out of sheep's milk they should not theoretically constitute a serious danger because the incidence of Brucellosis in sheep in Malta is about 1%.
A small cheese basket is known as a qaleb […] The cheeselet that is made in it is called a gbeina, smaller brother, as it were, of the rikotta.
Meg gazed desperately across the room to where Monty was guffawing with mirth and stuffing into his mouth a cheeselet.
Soft cheeselets, freshly made from sheeps'^([sic]) or goats' milk, rated as a favourite delicacy – and as trustworthy carriers of undulant fever.
CHEESELET. […] Line a pudding dish with bread; then sprinkle cheese over; then bread and so on until the dish is full, having a layer of bread on top, buttered side down. […] Pour the custard over the bread and cheese and bake in a moderate oven for twenty or twenty-five minutes.
CHEESELET […] Line a buttered baking-dish with the bread, lay over the cheese, then bread until the dish is full, having top layer bread buttered side down. Make a custard of three beaten eggs, 1 pint of milk, 1 teaspoonful salt, pour over the bread and cheese, and bake twenty-five minutes.
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Cheeselet means (chiefly Malta) A small, usually roundish lump of cheese; a baby cheese; specifically, a particular type made with sheep's milk in Malta..
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CHEESELETS. A saucer three-fourths full of grated cheese, mix with it the whites of thee eggs beaten stiff, add a pinch of salt, a few drops of Worcestershire sauce. Form into balls, roll in cracker crumbs (very fine), drop in boiling lard. To be made during the dinner and served directly with the salad.
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