American Cheese Recipes

American cooking is a melting pot of comfort food — from slow-smoked barbecue to skillet classics, big on bold, crowd-pleasing flavour. When American cooks work with cheese, they reach for butter, smoked paprika, brown sugar, mustard, hot sauce and good stock, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are baking, boiling, simmering and grilling.

A concentrated hit of savoury, salty richness used to melt, gratinate, crumble or finish a dish. In this collection it's most often cooked with unsalted butter, butter, olive oil, garlic powder, eggs and plain flour. The dishes here span american classics ready in as little as 5 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.

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