[Sca-cooks] Eureka!! was-another turkey picture?

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Yep I have been all through that, bread/butter debate.  If you find a pic of this thing up close (not this black and white copy) you can see tha the cheese has holes like a baby swiss or other similar cheeses and not like butter.  I have other pics of it cut and the same can be seen in them.  Bread is shaped the same as this, but you can acually see the differences in good close up pics.  This particular picture is them cooking cheese stuffed waffles and this is a softer meltable cheese to be used for that.  
 
Take a look at this pic;
http://www.friendsofart.net/en/art/pieter-aertsen/market-scene-1
 
You will see a couple of baskets with bread in the middle of the bottom and to the far right there is a small tray with this cheese by the other cheese's in the market.  While you can then debate this could be butter, again I will say, when you see it cut the center does not look like butter cut,, because of the cheese type holes painted in side of it.  I can go on, but that is for another disscussion.
 
Yes oscypek is a polish cheese, BUT, it is molded in a carved wooden form, which was a big help in proving that cheeses are made in other shapes than a flatened round wheel that we all know.  This new one being in a similar shape (conical) is a step towards proof of the different shapes of cheeses in period.  
Up to now, I have only had the pictures from Pieter Aertsen and his contemporary Joachim Beuckelaer both from Holland, to compare and reserch.  
 
Mirianna


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