[Sca-cooks] cheese aged in manure?

[Daniel Myers]

The only reference I've found to such a thing is questionable.

 From http://www.plastmo.com/gammalo1.html

	Here are some ideas I got about gammelost cheese. I have no idea
	where I got them -- probably from some guy who sold me some. The
cheese is
	cured by hanging them over cow manure in a barn. The Vikings used
to carry them
	in the bilge of their longships on long journeys because the
cheeses kept so
	well... or, looked at another way, leaving them in the bilge for a
while didn't
	make them any worse. I hope these things are true, but they are so
cool I don't
	really care -- when the legend is better than the truth, print the
legend.


On Tuesday, July 23, 2002, at 11:50 PM, Mark S. Harris wrote:

> Greetings folks,
>
> I just recieved this message. While it at first seems rather odd, maybe
> I'm gulible but it sounds like it might well have been done. I've left
> off the person's name as I didn't think to ask for permission to post to
> here. But now, I'm curious to know what folks might know about this.
>
> Thanks,
>    Stefan
>
> > This may sound like a real dumb question to you, but I have to ask.  I
> > can't find anything on it on the web.  My dad is know for telling
> things
> > that are not quit true.  He once told myself and my children that
> there
> > is a certain cheese that is aged by wrapping in a cloth and put in a
> > whole covered with cow manure.  It there any such thing or is he
> making
> > this up.  He said it was a very expensive cheese that is eaten with
> wine
> > and cracker.  Please let me know so I can tell my daughter who is in
> her
> > early 20s and believes to much of what she hears.
> --
> THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
>    Mark S. Harris            Austin, Texas          stefan at texas.net
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>
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