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day for five days and turned daily for forty days, when it 

 is ready for use. This is a delicious cheese when made 

 of rich milk and skillfully handled. It is made of small 

 size, weighing less than one pound. 



The Edam Cheese is one of the most excellent and 

 therefore popular of all the small kinds. 



Edam is a town of Holland, near the well-known 

 Zuyder Zee, and about twelve miles northeast of Amster- 

 dam. This town is the center of the manufacture of 

 those nearly globular reddish-colored cheeses, which are 

 largely imported into this country, and sold in all large 

 cities at from twenty to thirty cents a pound. Edam 

 cheese, designed specially for exportation to foreign 

 countries, is carefully made and will keep several years. 

 It is, therefore, a favorite cheese for use upon ships 

 while making long voyages, and is almost the only 

 cheese which is exported to India, China, and Australia. 

 There is a demand for small cheeses of high flavor, 

 and the Edam cheese to some extent fills this demand. 

 It is a cheese of three or four pounds weight, with a 

 sharp, almost pungent, yet agreeable flavor, and, as we 

 have already said, will keep for years. The process of 

 manufacture, as described by M. Le Senechal, director 

 of the dairy of St. Angeau, in Holland, is as follows : As 

 the peculiar purposes for which this cheese is destined 

 forbid the use of too rich a milk, and the presence of too 

 much cream or butter in the curd, it is usual at the 

 hight of the season — that is, from the middle of August 

 to the middle of October — to skim from one-third to a 

 half of the milk ; at other times the whole milk is \ised. 

 The milk, brought to a proper condition as to richness, is 

 placed in the vat, and raised to a temperature of about 

 ninety to ninety-two degrees in summer, and ninety-two 

 to ninety-five degrees in winter, when the rennet is added 

 in the proportion of a quarter of a pint to 100 quarts of 

 milk, .or somewhat less, according to circumstances. The 



