Comments | mightyjesse: AS-50: 8/21/10 Camembert #7, 10 (Variations in culturing)

mightyjesse

AS-50: 8/21/10 Camembert #7, 10 (Variations in culturing)

Aug 25, 2010 09:47

I have a set of Camembert cheeses (hopefully) moldering away in my refrigerator. I put them in there on the 8/21/10 and hopefully by 8/31/10 they'll be nice and fluffy with penicillium candidum. The last batch I made was successful, and I cultured those by buying a commercial brie and tossing a piece of it's rind in with my milk. This time, I've ( Read more... )

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pixel39 August 25 2010, 15:21:38 UTC

A) Did you mean Charlemagne, rather than Constantine?
B) Have you seen this essay? http://arts-sciences.westkingdom.org/documenting/charlemagnes-cheese.html

mightyjesse August 25 2010, 15:27:34 UTC

A) Doh. This is why I spend hours editing my entries after the initial brain dump. I couldn't remember the exact year Camembert was "invented" either so just put in a general place holder until I can go back and find the exact year (which I think is 1782, but can't be sure until I look it up...).

B) !!! (off to read)

mightyjesse August 25 2010, 15:35:56 UTC

OMG. I HEART YOU. Looks like Charlemagne was nomming on the brie-as-we-know-it and not a camemzola hybrid. I'm off to procure a copy of that original work to add to my cheesy collection!

THANK YOU.

former_callixte August 25 2010, 17:13:12 UTC

I'm pretty sure you couldn't identify me outta a line up since I'm sorta a fringe-y SCA person mostly. But I have to say I love you for making cheese and doing all this research!!! (Here via Eithni's friend's list--yeah, I'm a lurker)

Delphine
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former_callixte August 25 2010, 23:42:58 UTC

Nah, I could pick you out of a lineup. I occassionally see you at events like the Rose Tourney making dumplings (or something deep fried) with Iohanna or at WW nomming my cheez at the Baronial Showcase.

Speaking of which, what did you think of the cheez?

former_callixte August 26 2010, 20:53:13 UTC

Actually, I did not get to eat the cheese at the Baronial Showcase :(. I did not venture away from the Gnome World Encampment for the brief time that Iohanna and I were at WW. I did not know that you had cheese there or I would have made a beeline for it!

alienorh August 25 2010, 20:03:35 UTC

Camembert was by far my favorite cheese when I was in France. Probably because I love saying it. Yum!