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: --MM 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 --- Cheers Jim .... Around The World With Jigger And Flask: it's liquid field work ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 * Origin: Fidonet Since 1991 www.doccyber.org bbs.docsplace.org (1:135/392) .