Posted on 11/09/2013 4:31:29 AM PST by NYer
I call my grandkid’s eggs survivor chicken eggs because of all the chickens they have lost to predators. They even had vultures attack & kill their chickens.
Pumpkins are a good winter feed for laying chickens. Brings back the nice colored yokes & helps keep up the laying.
How does it compare to Russian cheese?
A local cheese where I live is Circassian cheese. It is similar to mozzarella. Until recently, most of the local pizza cafes would use this cheese because mozzarella was not available. They have imported a lot of German made cheeses for years - Gouda, Maasdam, Tilsiter and Edam have been popular.
Now, though, cheese is being imported from other countries. We're getting cheeses from all over Europe, and even New Zealand!
On my recent European trip, I got to visit the town of Edam, and got to sample the local cheeses, it was fantastic.
The Dutch students we were living with had a standing order of having 8 cases of Heineken delivered to our living quarters (2nd & 3rd floors of a townhouse) every week. (there were 5 of us living there).
Needless to say, I love the Dutch!
Very interesting. Is it just cows that have this K2 in their milk or is it found in goat milk (for instance) and other ruminants? I don’t have enough land for a cow, but have thought of getting a couple goats.
Wow! Thank you for that info.
Could the grain feeding also be a contributor to the obesity epidemic, I wonder.
The margarine people must have learned this from the cheese makers. Margarine without coloring looks like white like a slab of lard.
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Back in the late 1940s or very early 1950s, margarine came with a coloring packet of some sort. I do not remember it, but my older sisters remember getting the job of mixing the coloring in.
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Curd I say that you’re having whey too much fun with the puns? I just swiss you lots more good tommes.
Hmmmmmm.. I bought a lovely aged Tillamook cheddar a couple of weeks ago at Costco. It was white! I was surprised because it always used to be yellow. I suppose those granola types in Oregon have discontinued the dyes.
In any case, it was delicious and I bought another block of it this afternoon to serve at a dinner party I’m giving next weekend.
Tillamook is hard to find in Wisconsin and is (by far) my favorite cheese. My daddy used to make late night snacks with it when I was a child. Cheese and jelly sandwiches at 10 pm were a real treat when you are 7-10 and supposed to be in bed.
Pretty interesting. I have, from time to time, wondered about the yellow color, but I had not gotten around to researching it. Thanks.
When I was a child in CA, colored margarine was illegal. Margarine came in a brick, had to be softened, and then you had to stir the color in. It was a lot of work, but the Dairy Lobby kept a tight rein on the rules.
After WWII, the margarine folks started marketing margarine in plastic bags with a dye bubble in the middle. Yoou could squeeze the bubble to break it and then knead the bag until the color spread throughout the white margarine evenly.
Coloring the margarine was my chore when I was 6-10.
Cool!
Thanks!
I really miss the “real” cheeses (cut from bulk as required) that prevailed when I was a kid, and into my teens. It’s still available in delis of course, but the cheeses themselves have vanished in favor of imported stuff.
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