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Mother's Everyday Pimento Cheese

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Mother's Everyday Pimento CheeseRomulo Yanes

If you really want to make this pimento cheese the way my mother does, and you happen to own a hand-crank meat grinder, run the two cheeses once through the fine blade of the grinder into a mixing bowl. Mother simply used to grind the pimentos with the cheeses, but now she prefers to mash them with a heavy fork on a plate until they break up into tiny pieces.

She uses homemade mayonnaise but also endorses Hellmann's (a.k.a. Best Foods).

Cooks' note:

Pimento cheese keeps, tightly covered and chilled, 4 days.

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