PC Cheese?

[noahmercy]

I know cheese has been a basic staple of life for several millenia, and as such, must have made its way out to beaver country with the early trappers and frontiersmen. Any idea what was common? I'm sure it must have been a dry, hard cheese (high moisture content cheeses mold and spoil too quickly), but would it have been goat milk or cow milk cheese? How about curds? Would they have maybe carried small gouda wheels or some other wax-wrapped cheese to protect it from the elements? I'm curious 'coz I'd like to make sure my victuals are proper when I go to my first 'vous.

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[Ridge]

The amazing thing is, I was wondering the same damn thing last weekend.

Anyone know of a PC cheese?

 

[TexiKan]

Cheez-Wiz, Noah, do you you think the PC Food Nazi will chastise you for possessing and eating a modern or processed cheese substitute?!

"How'd ya get kicked outa the Rondy, Noah?"
"I ate Velveeta and the PC Food Police caught and convicted me...."

I touched on this topic in the past, in regards to PC food and how I saw quite a bit of liberties with ingredients and recipes. Seems the general consensus was to leave well enough alone and not to encourage someone to be a PC Food Nazi.

My guess is that if you pick anything white, you will present the allusion it is PC. Kinda like the folks using canola oil in place of good old fashioned lard!

Of course, if the reason for the post is the anticipation of the Food Police.......well, I'd find another Rondy! :imo:

TexiKan
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If you continue to do what you've always done, you will always get what you've always got.

 

May be a bit early than what you're looking for but try this website for PC Cheese.

Also found this:
A History of Eating in Colonial America. Clarkson N. Potter. 1971. Deals with food in American in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Lots of recipes from original sources; lots of useful pictures.

Just :m2c:

 

[noahmercy]

How do, Tex.

I'm actually not worried about anyone complaining about my choice of foods...I just would like to be as period correct as I can for my own satisfaction. :: I also plan on getting a fur-bearer permit and running some beaver traps up in the Bighorns next fall, and thought it would be nifty as heck to go up and do it "mountain man" style to see just how it really was. This would mean period-style handmade clothing, traps made by a buddy who is a fantastic blacksmith, and food as close to what they ate as I can get.

Claypipe, thanks for the references. That's super-helpful, as a cheese that existed in the eleventh (to the eighteenth) century, and can still be found today, must have been around in the early 1800's. (I sprained my brain coming to that conclusion...I hope you're happy! :blah

Thankya big big.

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[Ridge]

I try to get a little better with my personna every year. I become more and more PC every year because that's what I want to be. That's why I reenact......to get as close as I can to the way it was. Eating PC cheese would be add to the experience for me.

 

[redwing]

The trappers in the Big Horn country never carried cheese. They were very aware of the now extinct Big Horn Mouse which was well over 400 lbs. and would kill for fun.
It was well known here in the Wyoming Country that to carry cheese was to invite certain death. If you were foolish enough to carry those little Guda Wheels you were going to die on the Middle Fork of the Powder.
Noah I don't want to scare you but a"puncher" I know claims them mice are still up there. Everyone thinks they became extinct with the first out of state hunters in the 1930s. They thought they were Black bears.
Be very careful in the Big Horns and never carry Cheese.
Jim Bridger 1830.

Redwing :crackup: :crackup:

 

[Henry]

Well , at least the F&I war , French side :
If you are close to farming area , cheese that looked
very much like cottage cheese , it is the easiest to make .

Deep in the woods , but rather rich to start , Dutch
gouda , wax wrapped,is mentioned in merchants iventories .