When a recipe calls for 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese?!
When a recipe calls for 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese?
Are they wanting the cheese in the little shaker container? I don't recall seeing any fresh parmesan in the cheese section. But I never really looked for it. and our local yokel small town market is very limited in what it stocks.
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You wouldn't believe how limited our local market is and it's a 50 mile drive to the nearest Walmart Super Center. I'm a real country bumpkin. LOL
Answers: 1 day ago
You wouldn't believe how limited our local market is and it's a 50 mile drive to the nearest Walmart Super Center. I'm a real country bumpkin. LOL If you could find it in the cheese section, 2 oz of freshly grated is far superior. If not, look for the refrigerated parm, which is better than what's on the shelf in the pasta aisle. You can use either grated parmesan in the can or you can now buy packs of grated parmesan. Either will work. The parmesan in the package tastes fresher, but you will have good results with either. You can use it out of the can if you dont have fresh. I think it would mean fresh. But when it's fresh, you are supposed to pack the shredded cheese tightly in the measuring cup, so I guess the shaker kind would come out okay, as far as quantity goes. I'm sure your recipe will come out fine, but probably not as tasty as with fresh cheese. where do you live? surely everbody can buy a small block of Italian cheese and grate it.....anyway any hard cheese will do.. You can use the stuff in the shaker. It's not as nice as fresh, but it's much more convenient. Fresh is really expensive, and since it's a hard cheese, it's not as easy to grate. Go for the shaker container and you'll be just fine! you could use both canned parmesan cheese or fresh parmesan cheese (usually found in the deli dept)
it doesn't matter because the majority of the people used the canned or bottled cheese anyway.
you could also ask you local market if it carries fresh cheese or will at sometime.
hope this helped. good luck. it can be the kind in the can, or you can get a little wedge of it at the cheese section, if you are feeling like grating some cheese. It is pretty much the same thing unless you are cooking as a very sensitive chef, or as a gormet. I know there are people out there who would argue that the stuff in the can doesn't taste the same, but I can't tell the difference! lol. Usually it is the coarsely grated fresher kind. It is typically in the cheese section--near where you would find blue cheese crumbles and Feta Cheese. If you use the kind in the shaker-- it will be very salty.