“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:

1. In a stand mixer, whip the room temperature butter for a few minutes, until nearly doubled in size and light in color.
2. Add Cheddar cheese, Romano cheese, garlic powder, paprika, hot sauce, and Worcestershire sauce to the whipped butter.
3. Stir until combined, using either the kitchen aid mixer or a large spoon.
4. 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.)
5. Spread a thin cheese mixture on white bread slices.
6. Place on foil lined pans.
7. Preheat oven broiler.
8. 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!