CONCERNING CHEESE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1901, 11 September 1884, Page 4

CONCERNING CHEESE.

A CRUST of bi earl and cheese has long been a pioveibml phrase mdii'iitive of penurious hospitality, but Euiopoau agiieultiuists bul fair toievcibo its ap plication, judging from the elegant and tempting varieties of cheese now 1 caching Ameiican markets in increasing consignments, From the chalet high up on Alpine meads, fiom commune 1 : ot snnny Fiance, fiom Scandinavian forests, low lying Holland, and even distiut Italy, 'this easily portable pro duct of the daiiy finds its way to 0111 tables. Some few of these h.no long been known to the epicure, but only recently became articles* of oomp.uatively common, consumption. Such is the Oruyeie. which by tight of si/c comes naturally toremsst — a great cheese weighing 100 pounds, rich and luscious, fiom Switzerland. It sometimes measures a yard in circumteiencc But upon this huge mass a delicate skill and at least one year's* attention has been lavished, to bung it to the exact consistency of a species of (inner butter, dis appearing, as it weie, upon the tongue The piocebs is canied on in summer almost beside the glacier and a\alanche, and one part of the sj stem is said to be a repeated sen tie simmuing of the cuid. It sells in Ameiica .it abo.;t thnty cents a pound. Quite aconti.^tis piesented by the Mount dOr oiuese— fiom Fiance —a yellow disk, say fnu inches across, like a cake ot solid honey. The tast>> is delicious, and it h,is a tempting appealance upon the table. The*e cheeses aie usually obtained by the do/en, costing twenty-five cents; which is also the value of each Camemboit, still less in diameter, but thicker. A cheese comin uiding a wider sale is the Roqucfoit (Fiench) the puce of which, sixty cents a pound, indicates a superior quality. It is a cieam cheese, coated with tin foil and weighing about four pounds. It is made fiom the. milk of sheep and w hen cut open is flecked with that peculiar decay so dear to the artist in eating. This* mouldiness is the chief object of the maker, who assists its development by the use ot a little bailey biead.' The cheese is matuied in a series of natuial eavcins, the diaught through -which efleets the lipeniug Roquefoit anil Oorgo l/ola (Italian) much lesemble the English Stilton ; the latter is also made fiom cieiim only, is veiy rich, and about the same pi ice The flavor ot some of the foieign cheeses is \aned by the addition of can a•waysor cmnauion ; otheis aie piep.uecl with heibs, as the schab/iegor fiom Swit/eilnnd. Fiance al->o send* the Fiom age de Bnc and Bondon (cieam), Foit FEvecpue, etc , not all, peilnps, quite attiacti\e to the Amciican nostnl ; and SwiUeiland the Neucliatel cieam, like molten Stilton, and eaten as butter on a slice of biead.

Somi one s.iys a good diessmg foi k'titliui is iii.nU of on I- quilt of unegai two ounces ot spei in lueti oil .md si\ ounces each ot niulas>es and i\oi} 7 Mack. \)n Kuh\AM c ays tliat if silk tissues are impiegiiatcd with ehiomate of eoppci and then exposed to the direct sunshine \ ,111011s shades of In own may be obtained, and the fabne is lcndeied wnteipioof. Nj-w Zh.\r,A\i> v Amkiiicw Cm i si;. — According to the account sales |Ust le ceived, the "Noith Oti^o Tunes '" leains that the iiist consignment of cheese bent by the W.iiareka O.iny Factoiy to London was sold atveiy satis factoiv lat^s — namely, 02s to dOs pei cwt. At the bame time gwd Ameiicau cheese was only bunging ,3Gb pel cwt. in the same maiket. Imi'Um.v \tion of the atmosphcic of a sick chamber wlien the patient is ill of diphtheiia, measles, seailet ft^ei, oi of a mi\tuie of efpnl patts of tnipeiitine and c.vibolic acid ib leeomniended by Di Yil.nnlt. Half a tcaspoonfnl of the mKtuic will be enough at a tuno if it ib put into a kettle of watei kept near the boiling (point. The odour generally gives sonic lclief to the sulTeicr and tends to pi event; the .spiead of the malady. Tin. Fiench Government (tlie St. James' Gazette says) has acted with commendable, but unhappily exceptional, •vigour in siippitssing the sale of Hen Most's inecndiai y sheet, the Fi eheit, 111 Pans. The paper ib published in Kew Yoik, and cumulates laig ly among the Geimin aitisans in tlie F uibouig SaintAntoine In the ai tide whidi piovoked the iiittrvciiioii of the authoi ities, the v, liter pi edicts th.it the day is not fai distant when evciy w diking man will leive his house ill tin 1 nioining with tlie fiim 1 evolution of killing a bouttredis liefor the goes down. "Only p,i\ yom lent with levohei bullets," is his concluding advice to tlie wOlw ol king men of Paris. "If \Olll landloid comes to ask ior it lodide a bullet 111 his stomach " Tin, follow ing appeals in the " Patea Mail ": — A cm ions cisc ot somnambulism lias come undei oui notuo. A member of the Foiuth Kstate, whom duty called to one of tlie political meetings just held in the distuot, hid letued to lest, and di earned l.c hend the impel atne demand of the compositoi s foi *' c 0113' "' 1 iiigmg in hiseais. yhll wiapped in the aims of Moipheus, (') hpiiro«CtUul woiked Imd at the ticinsenption of Ins leport of the meeting. On awakening in the nioming he was agieeably buipnscd at finding over two columns of matter leady for the punter which he had no lecolleetion of writing, and of which he was peifectlj certain that two lines had not been finished on his letuing to bed the pievious night "No, Tom, we cannot swillow that," adds the Taianaki Heiald. GKNhiiVL M \cl\ 1 n —During the late excitement lclating to the s"ttloment of New Guinea Ihcie appealed \eiy piomi nently the name of (Jeneial Maelver. lie was in Oanbaldi's [>t iti^li Legion at the bombardment of Capua, when he Mas 1 challenged foi a bisket of wine to show hiniselfover the bieastwoiks " for one short minute," The next minute he spiang on the paiapet, w Ik n lie w as duly exposed to the enemy s shot^. Zip-/ip — zip — zip, whistled the bullets arouml him, ami theie he stood as calmly as if on paiade, filing ami leloaihng, and still without cessation the/ip — /'p — zap of the leaden inebseugeis of deith sighing aiound him, and even stiikmtr no.v him, like a. lieice storm of hail. Ere long his cap was shot off his head, his loose led Ganbaldian shut was pmfoiated, and his body actually gia/ed 111 many places, and ,\et lie Kept hii stand. Each instant his comiade.s expected to see him fall back dead or 11101 tall}' wounded ; but he nu\v\ flinched 1101 stiued oven, except to dischaige or load his ulle. Most of the ofliceis were almost paialysed at his teinei ity ; but at length one of them called out, " For Heaven's sake, Maelver, eomp down ' You ha\e tempted Piovidencc too long.' 1 Thus adjuied, the Young Highlander filed a patting shot from his rifle, and then coolly lighted a cigar, with his face still to the enemy. Then he turned deliberately round and jumped down amongst his astouished companions, having been five minutes on the paiapet. — " Undei Fourteen Flags ;" being the life and adventures of Bngidier-General Maelver, a soldier of foi tune. By Captain W. D. L ('Estrange.

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