On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 02:44:03 GMT, Hahabogus >
wrote:

>Arri London > wrote in :
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>> Julia Altshuler wrote:
>>>
>>> I work at a place that sells wine and cheese. We've done a few cheese
>>> platters. We'd like to do more. So far, a cheese platter is a few
>>> types of cheese, maybe a blue, a soft, a chevre and something nicely
>>> aged and hard, cut into squares and arranged on a platter with a bunch
>>> of grapes, some green fresh herbs, little toothpicks, etc. In other
>>> words, BORING. We want something gorgeous, wowza, some design element
>>> in the presentation that's unmistakeably ours (though we don't mind
>>> stealing an idea from someone else) and spectacular. Any ideas? We
>>> have access to normal ingredients from the supermarket. Everything on
>>> the platter doesn't have to be edible. It just has to look attractive
>>> and classy.
>>>
>>> --Lia
>
>There are some small cookie cutters out there. Possibly use some of them to
>make more appealing shapes of the cheese blocks. I have a very small set of
>cookie cutters shaped after the suits in playing cards for example.

I have a tin of very small, leaf shaped cutters that I bought in the
pastry/baking section of a cookery store for cutting out pastry shapes
to decorate pie shells, tarts, etc. They're roughly 1 1/2" w and l and
they're fairly sharp. I've used them to cut cheese (not the hard
cheeses such as parmesean, but the softer ones such as cheddars) for
pretty cheese platters and they work really well. There are 7 leaf
patterns in all, IIRC (too lazy to go look).

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA


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