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CHEESE (Lat. caseus)

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CHEESE (Lat. caseus)

CHEESE (See also:
LAT
Lat. caseus) , a solidified preparation from See also:

MILK (0. Eng. meoluc; from a common Indo-European root, cf. Lat. mulgere, Gr. ?t dXyetv)

milk, the essential constituent of which is the proteinous or nitrogenous substance casein. All cheese contains in addition some proportion of fatty See also:

MATTER

matter or See also:

BUTTER (Lat. butyrum, Gr. 0obrvpov, apparently connected with $ous, cow, and rvpbs, cheese, but, according to the New English Dictionary, perhaps of Scythian origin)

butter, and in the more valuable varieties the butter See also:

PRESENT

present is often greater in amount than the casein. Cheese being thus,a See also:

compound substance of no definite See also:

composition is found in See also:

commerce of many different varieties and qualities; and such qualities are generally recognized by the names of the localities in which they are manufactured. The See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal distinctions arise from See also:

DIFFERENCES, CALCULUS OF (Theory of Finite Differences)

differences in the composition and See also:

CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition of the milk operated upon, from See also:

variations in the method of preparation and curing, and from the use of the milk of other animals besides the cow, as, for example, the See also:

GOAT (a common Teut. word; O. Eng. gat, Goth. gaits, Mod. Ger. Geiss, cognate with Lat. haedus, a kid)

goat and the See also:

ewe, from the milk of both of which cheese is manufactured on a commercial See also:

scale. For details about different cheeses and cheese-making, see See also:

DAIRY

DAIRY. From the See also:

URDU

Urdu chiz ("thing") comes the See also:

SLANG

slang expression " the cheese," meaning " the perfect thing," apparently from Anglo-See also:

INDIAN

Indian usage. A useful See also:

SUMMARY

summary of the See also:

HISTORY

history and manufacture of all sorts of cheeses, under their different names, is given in Bulletin See also:

toy of the See also:

BUREAU (a Fr. word from burel or bureau, a coarse cloth used for coverings)

Bureau of See also:

Animal See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

Industry (See also:

UNITED

United States Dep. of See also:

Agriculture), Varieties of Cheese, by C. F. See also:

DOANE, GEORGE WASHINGTON (1799–1859)

Doane and H. W. See also:

Lawson (See also:

Washington, 1908).

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