Subj : Recent tastes
To : ALL
From : JIM WELLER
Date : Fri Jul 01 2022 22:15:00
Ilchester Wensleydale cheese
I finally got a taste of Wensleydale cheese. Not the original one
from Wensleydale in Yorkshire in the northeast but one made
elsewhere in England. It's white, medium hard, creamy and supple but
also crumbly, young and mild tasting and slightly sweet so it goes
well with fruit. It is similar in many ways to a young, white
Cheshire cheese.
Ilchester is in Somerset in the southwest and the Ilchester cheese
company makes blended, flavoured cheeses including Wensleydale style
cheese with cranberries, orange rind and even chocolate bits blended
in.
True Yorkshire Wensleydale is $45/kg at my store and I have always
given it a pass hoping they'd someday mark down some that was
aging out but that has never happened. When they first stocked
Ilchester cheese the initial introductory price was just $20/kg but
it didn't move and it ended up at just $10. So I grabbed one package
each of all three kinds. They were all wonderful, even the weird
chocolate one. But now it's discontinued due to poor sales so I may
never have it again.
Henke melon liqueur
Japanese Midori melon liqueur is quite nice or at least it used to be
when I first tasted it in Hawaii. A popular Waikiki bar there
specialized in giant daiquiri and margarita coolers in various fruit
flavours served up in hurricane glasses with lots of ice and 7-UP
or soda water and the Midori ones were quite tasty. I was feeling
nostalgic but my local store doesn't carry Midori, just another one
made by Henke. That's not a great name but I bought it anyway. It's
definitely second rate, overly sweet, with a nasty artificial taste
and bouquet. Avoid. Hold out for Midori or nothing.
I did some digging: Henke was once a well regarded gin maker for
decades and even centuries, but it branched out into inexpensive
liqueurs and American style sweet "schnaps" and then got bought out
by its larger competitor. Bols, which also makes sweet, second rate
booze. Bols is now owned by AAC Capital, a Benelux private equity
firm that owns all sorts of unrelated companies. But my bottle is
labelled "Made in Quebec in Canada" and "distributed by Diageo
Canada Inc." Diageo does not acknowledge either Bols or Henke as a
subsiduary or a brand on its website so who knows what is really
going on.
Anyway, should anyone want to try making a Moose McGillycuddy's
melon daiquiri cooler it goes something like this:
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Moose McGillycuddy's melon daiquiri cooler
2 oz amber rum
1 oz Midori melon liqueur
2 oz sweet and sour mix
1 ts lemon juice
7-UP
Fill a hurricane glass or large collins glass with ice. Pour the
first four ingredients in and then fill with 7-Up. A dryer version
can be made with soda water. You can sub tequila for the rum to make
a margarita cooler.
Re-created from memory - JW
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Cheers
Jim
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