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Aoife: Cheese wax is a commercial product which is a combination of soft
waxes and other wax-like products. It can be purchased from a company
called "Cumberland General Store", (who sells its catalog on news stands
with $-off coupons inside)if you don't want to bring a whole wheel of
cheese to Pennsic. On the other hand, beeswax works quite well, and is
far, far cheaper when purchased from apniaries (bee enthusiasts, did I
spell that on right?). Parafin just crumbles, and my experiemnts with
cheesemaking make parafin unsuitable, even though it's edible.Note  that
I didn't say digestible. You can coat purchased cheese wedges (cut
wedges, that is, with wax on the rind) with beeswax or cheese wax, even
if it has already been through that at the manufacturer. Just remove the
original wax first. You can do the same with home-made cheeses. Wrap the
cheese in a layer or two of cheesecloth and paint on the wax.
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And for future referance, I did not find this note because I
remembered where I put it. I looked in the cheese-msg file first
and didn't find anything. Then I used the search engine found
on the front page of the Florilegium. When I get the time, I
will make the search engine available from elsewhere on the
site.

Stefan li Rous
stefan at texas.net