Using Glaze to Adorn Your Cheese with Flower
s A single serving of glazed goat cheese 5 years ago, I posted an article (Using Wildflowers In/On Your Cheese) about picking and preparing wildflowers. Most of my information for that article came from Terry Dinnan, a home cheese maker in Charlotte, Vermont. Terry’s flax petals drying in the sun. (If you want to add flowers to the interior of your cheeses, it’s best to dry them first.) After posting that article, I began to notice that more and more people are using flowers to decorate their cheeses. These flowers were laid on the cheese without glaze. For example, Becca Heins, in Longmont, Colorado made these spectacular cheeses in 2017, and then waxed the flowers onto them: Becca used beautiful...