Celebrate Arbor Day Jan. 20 by planting a tree VOL. 95, No. 1 www.ldaf.la.gov January 12, 2012 Dairyman Henry Mauthe and granddaughter Katie produce MAUTHE’S Creole cream cheese and package Mauthe’s Creole Cream Cheese at Mauthe’s dairy in Folsom. Henry resurrected the heirloom product in 2001 after larger commercial dairies quit making the labor intensive sought after by chefs product. “Creole cream cheese is one of the best things from long ago,” Mauthe said. By Sam Irwin Henry Mauthe wouldn’t call his dairy a boutique cheese. Dairymen would make sure all of their milk dairy. To the 83-year-old Mauthe, he’s just been doing orders were filled and made supplementary products the same old dairying that’s he been doing for the last 70 like Creole cream cheese with their extra milk. years. Consolidation of the dairy industry created a new Mauthe (pronounced mow-tay) is no longer maintain- dairy farmer who simply milked his cows and sold the ing a herd of dairy cows but he’s nurturing a family milk to a larger milk processor. Products like Creole Enjoying this business by producing cream cheese that were Creole cream cheese, a heavy on the labor and special dairy product that not as profitable as cot- is dear to the heart of tage cheese simply disap- complimentary thousands of New Orleans peared from the market. natives who always ate Mauthe, who relocated their oatmeal with the his dairy in 1956 to Market Bulletin? creamy treat. Folsom remembered his Creole cream cheese is motivation to bring mild, slightly sweet soft Creole cream cheese cheese that is made from back to life. clabbered milk, buttermilk “It made me mad that and rennet. It’s a New (the bigger dairies) Orleans culinary tradition bought our milk at one that dates back 150 years Excess whey drains from the Creole cream price and used our sur- or so. According to Slow cheese curd. plus to make cream, Food USA, “the cheese is yogurt and cream similar to a Neufchatel and other fresh farmhouse-style cheese,” he said. “They made money with those prod- cheeses with a taste between ricotta and crème fraiche.” ucts, but we (the dairymen) got one price.” Subscribe today! Back in the day when every New Orleans neighbor- Mauthe and his son, Kenny, resurrected Creole cream hood was service by a local dairy and milkmen deliv- cheese in 2001. Mauthe sells his Creole cream cheese at ered milk bottles to every back porch, residents of the the Thursday Crescent City Farmers Market in New Crescent City developed a taste for Creole cream See Mauthe’s Dairy, continued on page 3 Page 2 MARKET BULLETIN January 12, 2012 Louisiana Agriculture & Forestry Today Bienville Parish man arrested after failure to deliver hay A Bienville Parish man was Harris County authorities in Association Law Enforcement Louisiana’s agricultural produc- arrested Dec. 13 for failing to deliv- Texas also filed theft by fraud Division also participated in the ers.” er $13,320 worth of hay that had charges against Ward when he investigation. Strain said anyone with knowl- been ordered in August, Agriculture allegedly accepted a $2,000 pay- Johnson dropped the charges edge or suspicion of an agricultural and Forestry Commissioner Mike ment for hay that he did not deliver. against Ward after restitution was crime should call the LDAF Strain, D.V.M., said. 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SUBSCRIPTIONS 3004 1690 ___ _____ January 12, 2012 MARKET BULLETIN Page 3 Mauthe’s Dairy, continued from page 1 Orleans and the Covington Farmers Market on of the cheese herself. Another granddaughter, Sarah, Saturday. He also sells milk with the Mauthe’s Dairy makes a cheesecake with the Creole cream cheese for label. (His chocolate milk is excellent). resale in select stores. The cheesecakes are available in The cheese making process is simple but takes time. Langenstein’s Grocery in New Orleans and Metairie First, the milk is pasteurized. The cream is skimmed off and Main’s Grocery in Folsom. In Covington, the and