“This is one of my very special, very secret recipes. When I was young my parents would take me to the North Woods Inn restaurant in California. With your meal you get a basket of garlic cheese bread, and a big family size bowl blue cheese salad and red cabbage salad. The cheese spread can also be added to a baked potato and put under the broiler.” You can buy the cheese spread now – Clearman’s Original Spread. The Clearman Family started the Northwoods Inn. Our kids thought that eating peanuts and throwing the shells on the floor was the ultimate!
Ingredients:
- 1 pound grated Cheddar cheese
- 2 oz grated Romano cheese
- 1-½ pounds butter, room temperature
- ¾ tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp Hungarian sweet paprika
- ⅛ tsp hot sauce
- 2-¼ tsp Worcestershire sauce
- 2 loaves French or sourdough bread, sliced ½-inch thick
- Additional Hungarian sweet paprika for sprinkling
- Plastic containers for storage
Directions:
- In a stand mixer, whip the room temperature butter for a few minutes, until nearly doubled in size and light in color.
- Add Cheddar cheese, Romano cheese, garlic powder, paprika, hot sauce, and Worcestershire sauce to the whipped butter.
- Stir until combined, using either the kitchen aid mixer or a large spoon.
- Store in an airtight container in the fridge until ready to use. (Freeze half in a plastic container, since it makes a ton of spread.)
- Spread a thin cheese mixture on white bread slices.
- Place on foil lined pans.
- Preheat oven broiler.
- Broil in batches until browned and bubbly.
Serves: Makes many, many servings
Source: Jam Hands – Recipe from…I misplaced the source. I’ll have to find it soon and update this!
Sounds great. We live in Oregon now and miss dining at Northwoods Inn .