The Complete Book of Cheese by Robert Carlton Brown
page 306 of 464 (65%)
page 306 of 464 (65%)
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Hard, golden-brown, sour-milker. After being pressed it is turned daily for fourteen days and then packed in a chest with wet straw. So far as we are concerned it can stay there. The color all the way through is tobacco-brown and the taste, too. It has been compared to medicine, chewing tobacco, petrified Limburger, and worse. In his _Encyclopedia of Food_ Artemas Ward says that in Gammelost the ferments absorb so much of the curd that "in consequence, instead of eating cheese flavored by fungi, one is practically eating fungi flavored with cheese." Garda _Italy_ Soft, creamy, fermented. A truly fine product made in the resort town on Gardasee where d'Annunzio retired. It is one of those luscious little ones exported in tin foil to America, and edible, including the moldy crust that could hardly be called a rind. Garden _U.S.A._ Cream cheese with some greens or vegetables mixed in. Garlic _U.S.A._ A processed Cheddar type flavored with garlic. Garlic-onion Link |
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