CURING CHEESE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1605, 9 February 1884, Page 4

CURING CHEESE.

A cbeeso maker in Ashtabula County 0., states his experience in curing cheese as follows" I havo been somewhat interested in your articles on curing cheese in the boxes. We have a room in the basement of the factory, lathed and plastered, with stono wall on two sides and a cement floor. Wo find clieeso loses less in weight and has a much better flavor when cured in a room up-slairs." The experience above stated in regard to curing cheese in upper rooms and basements, has been corroborated scores of times in our visits to cheese factories. It is a rule, in fact, that cheese in upper rooms dries out much more and cures less perfectly that in the closer apartments and damper air of rooms partly under ground. The temperature in basements, built av above described, fluctuates much less than in upper rooms, a circumstance which greatly enhances the value of lower rooms for curing cheese. Much variation in temperature always detracts from flavor. Every rise and fall ill the warmth of the room in which cheese is curing, warps and impairs the development of flavor, and causes an extra shrinkage in weight, Moisture

is essential to rapid curing, and to the formation of flavor. Dry air and much light are objectionable, We have foun > the best, curing in dark close rooms, and as (lamp as they could be on account of mould. It was this that led to our little experiment in curing ch ee.se iu boxes, which, by the way, has proved a perfect success. We have just .out one of the cheeses so cured, now about six months old, and find the curing perfect—all that could be desired—and it was so considered by an expert who happened to be present when it was cut, Though skimmed at the rate of a pound of butter 501b of milk, the flavor is perfectly clean and quite full and nutty like that of a well-mado, wholettilk cheese, and would easily lie mistaken for such by tlio average consumer. It is greatly superior to those cured on the open shelf. The result has proved bo favorable, we propose to experiment further another year, and hope others will do so too,