[Sca-cooks] Autumn cheese?

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

Pretty much what it sounds like. In the French Middle Ages, cheese was  
rarely referred to in any precise terms, though Brie was probably the most  
common exception. But already before the Crusades there was a reference to 
"May"  (that is, spring) cheese. The Enseignemens uses the same term. But the 
Viandier  says to use "fromage de gain" - fall cheese - for the same recipe.
 
These distinctions still endure, even if they are lost in the wealth of  
other terms we use for cheese. Last year I bought some Dutch "spring cheese" 
at  Trader Joe's.
 
For anyone who's interested, I took a look at medieval cheese some time  
back on my blog:
 
http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/03/old-regime-cheese-1-lost-cheeses-of.htm
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http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/03/old-regime-cheese-2-what-no-camembert.h
tml
 
Jim  Chevallier
_www.chezjim.com_ (http://www.chezjim.com/) 

FRENCH BREAD HISTORY:  Renaissance/sixteenth century bread
http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2015/08/french-bread-history.html






In a message dated 9/16/2015 8:09:03 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
ddfr at daviddfriedman.com writes:

Someone  on FaceBook asked what autumn cheese in Viandier was. Anyone 
here  know?