HOMEMADE STRING CHEESE

Steps:

• Place cheese in a Teflon saucepan and add a dash of mahleb and salt and a sprinkling of black seeds.
• Heat on low until cheese is melted thoroughly.
• Remove from heat and drain water.
• Pick up hot cheese in a lump, and make a hole in the center to look like a doughnut.
• Stretch and turn the cheese to form a large loop.
• Double the strand of cheese, making two strands of cheese of even length.
• Repeat, stretching and looping; the more you stretch the stringier the cheese becomes.
• Repeat stretching several times.
• Twist ends in opposite directions and intertwine rope into a braid.
• Place one end through the loop of the other to lock it.
• Set cheese aside to dry thoroughly.
• Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate or freeze.
• To serve, open braid, cut one loop and pull cheese apart into thin strands.
• Serve with pocket bread.