[Sca-cooks] cheese color

[Bonne of Traquair]

>On Wednesday 25 July 2001 08:36, Margaret FitzWilliam wrote:
> >
> > I am remembering a passage in one of the "Little House" books by Laura
> > Ingalls Wilder where someone was watching their mother make butter...
>she colored
> > the butter with a carrot that she grated and squeezed the juice from.

It was Ma, in the first book, Little House in the Big Woods.

>the question of why it would
>be necessary for home-made cheese to look more like factory-made cheese
>comes
>up.
>
>Adamantius

Well, Ma certainly wasn't trying to imitate factory made cheese.  She was
trying to imitate cheese made from better quality milk than she could get
from her own cow, which was pastured in fields recently cleared from the
forest.  From her actions, we can see that during the American Fronteir era,
a yellower cheese was considered 'better'.   Which doesn't tell us anything
about what was desirable in any particular time or place before that, but is
useful to know.

Bonne

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