[Sca-cooks] cheese aged in manure?

[Philippa Alderton]

You gave the wrong url- I think you wanted to give
this one ;-)

http://www.plastmo.com/gammalos.html

Phlip


--- Daniel Myers <doc at medievalcookery.com> wrote:
> 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
> > **** See Stefan's Florilegium files at:
> http://www.florilegium.org ****
> >
> >
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