Same for Clemson University Blue Cheese which I believe they started making
around the same time. In the early years it was aged in the Stumphouse
Mountain tunnel. Still excellent today.
Charlie
On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> As we converse, I'm finishing up a small wheel of Villagret Cheese from
> the Ag Dept. of Mississippi State University. My sister sends me one every
> Christmas. They were teaching cheese-making and selling it from the Dairy
> Products Store since before I enrolled in the Fall of 1947.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
> On 1/29/2016 2:25 PM, Moose wrote:
>
>> On 1/29/2016 12:15 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
>>
>>> When I was growing up in the South in the 1930s and 40s, every little
>>> store had a round wheel of cheddar that we called "hoop cheese", because it
>>> came to the store in a round wooden box. It made much better mac and
>>> cheese than today's products, because it would brown nicely on top. I miss
>>> it.
>>>
>>
>> Readily available on-line.
>>
>> I grew up with 5# bricks of unlabeled cheddar. Wrapped in cheesecloth,
>> then wax coated. I don't know where my dad got it, but don't much care,
>> what with the amazing variety of cheeses available, from very simple to too
>> darn fancy. ;-)
>>
>> Just Sayin' Moose
>>
>>
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