{"id":20313,"date":"2020-09-17T14:46:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T21:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/?p=20313"},"modified":"2021-01-09T11:18:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T18:18:55","slug":"alpine-fondue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/alpine-fondue\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpine Fondue"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Simple Fondue<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>3 oz Emmenthaler &#8211; grated<\/li>\n<li>2 oz gruyere &#8211; grated<\/li>\n<li>1 oz gouda &#8211; grated<\/li>\n<li>2 tsp cornstarch<\/li>\n<li>scant white pepper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Use any 40% semi-firm cheese.&nbsp; Other choices include asiago, young gouda, taleggio, fontina, gruyere, Emmenthaler, or Comt\u00e9.&nbsp; Good melting cheeses will have high moisture, high protein, low age (max 150 days) and low fat<\/p>\n<h2>Making Cheese<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Enzyme is added to dairy to curdle<\/li>\n<li>Curd is cut and whey removed<\/li>\n<li>Put into presses which compress and remove more whey<\/li>\n<li>Loose cheese is cut into blocks &#8211; put into round molds<\/li>\n<li>Cheese is pressed into rounds<\/li>\n<li>Turned out and placed on aging racks<\/li>\n<li>Gruyere is aged months to years and is produced here in the US<\/li>\n<li>Older cheeses are generally harder<\/li>\n<li>Scrub and add salt and bacteria during aging process<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Step by Step<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Cast iron fondue pot or double boiler<\/li>\n<li>Rub with garlic, add wine, brandy and lemon<\/li>\n<li>1 C white sauvignon blanc &#8211; high acid\n<ul>\n<li>2 TBL fruit brandy<\/li>\n<li>1 TBL fresh lemon juice<\/li>\n<li>12 tsp&nbsp; prepared horseradish<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cloves garlic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Bring heat to 135\u00ba<\/li>\n<li>At 135\u00ba add cheeses &#8211; melt between handfulls<\/li>\n<li>Heat until 150\u00ba<\/li>\n<li>Important\n<ul>\n<li>#1 high acid<\/li>\n<li>#2 corn starch<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Final addition<\/li>\n<li>Whisk until smooth<\/li>\n<li>Add horseradish to smooth sauce<\/li>\n<li>Dipping choices\n<ul>\n<li>bread<\/li>\n<li>chilled veggies &#8211; broccoli, cauliflower<\/li>\n<li>cooked sausage &#8211; kielbasa, bratwurst<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simple Fondue 3 oz Emmenthaler &#8211; grated 2 oz gruyere &#8211; grated 1 oz gouda &#8211; grated 2 tsp cornstarch scant white pepper Use any 40% semi-firm cheese.&nbsp; Other choices include asiago, young gouda, taleggio, fontina, gruyere, Emmenthaler, or Comt\u00e9.&nbsp; Good melting cheeses will have high moisture, high protein, low age (max 150 days) and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/alpine-fondue\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alpine Fondue&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casseroles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20313"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20321,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20313\/revisions\/20321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}