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cheese

(Encyclopedia) cheese, food known from ancient times and consisting of the curd of milk separated from the whey. The numerous cheeses (often named for their place of origin) depend for their…

Brewer's: Cheese

Tusser says that a cheese, to be perfect, should not be like (1) Gehazi, i.e. dead white, like a leper; (2) not like Lot's wife, all salt; (3) not like Argus, full of eyes; (4) not like…

Brewer's: Bread and Cheese

The barest necessities of life. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894BreakBread-basket A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y…

Brewer's: Hull Cheese

Strong ale, or rather intoxicating cake, like “tipsy cake,” thus described by Taylor, the water-poet: “It is much like a loafe out of a brewer's basket; it is composed of two simples—…

Brewer's: Chalk and Cheese

I know the difference between chalk and cheese. Between what is worthless and what is valuable, between a counterfeit and a real article. Of course, the resemblance of chalk to cheese has…

Brewer's: Cheese-Toaster

(A). A sword; also called a “toasting-fork.” “Come! out with your toaster.” In Latin veru means a dart, a spit used in roasting, or a toasting fork. Thus we have “pugnant mucrone veruque…

Brewer's: Nip-cheese

or Nip-farthing. A miser, who nips or pinches closely his cheese and farthings. (Dutch, nippen.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894NipperkinNip in the Bud A…

rennet

(Encyclopedia) rennet, substance containing rennin, an enzyme having the property of clotting, or curdling, milk. It is used in the making of cheese and junket. Rennet is obtained from the stomachs…

The Cooper's Hill Cheese Roll

The power of cheese by Holly Hartman "If the runners jump the gun, they are likely to get a cheese in the back." – Iris Peasley,Cheese Committee According to the National Dairy…

casein

(Encyclopedia) caseincaseinkāˈsēn [key], well-defined group of proteins found in milk, constituting about 80% of the proteins in cow's milk, but only 40% in human milk. Casein is a remarkably…