Another name for Fromage Mou, Soft Cheese.

Marches
Tuscany, Italy

Ewe’s milk; hard.

Margarine
England

An oily cheese made with oleomargarine.

Margherita
Italy

Soft; cream; small.

Marienhofer
Austria

Limburger type.  About 4-1/2 inches square and 1-1/2 inches thick; weight about a pound.  Wrapped in tin foil.

Maerkisch, or Maerkisch Hand
Germany

Soft; smelly; hand type.

Maroilles, Marolles, Marole
Flanders, France

Semisoft and semihard, half way between Pont l’Eveque and Limburger.  Full flavor, high smell, reddish brown rind, yellow within.  Five inches square and 2-1/4 inches thick; some larger.

Martha Washington Aged Cheese
U.S.A.

Made by Kasper of Bear Creek, Wisconsin. (See under Wisconsin in
Chapter 4.)

Mascarpone, or Macherone
Italy

Soft; white; delicate fresh cream from Lombardy.  Usually packed in muslin or gauze bags, a quarter to a half pound.

McIntosh
Alaska

An early Klondike Cheddar named by its maker, Peter McIntosh, and described as being as yellow as that “Alaskan gold, which brought at times about ounce for ounce over mining-camp counters.” The Cheddar Box by Dean Collins.

McLaren’s
U.S.A.

Pioneer club type of snappy Cheddar in a pot, originally made in
Canada, now by Kraft in the U.S.A.

Meadowbloom
U.S.A.

Made by the Iowa State College at Ames.

Mecklenburg Skim
Germany

No more distinguished than most skim-milkers.

Meilbou
France

Made in the Champagne district.

Mein Kaese
U.S.A.

Sharp; aromatic; trade-marked package.

Melfa
U.S.A.

Excellent for a processed cheese.  White; flavorsome.  Packed in half moons.

Melun
France
Brown-red rind, yellow inside; high-smelling.  There is also a Brie de
Melun.

Mentelto
Italy
Sharp; goat; from the Mentelto mountains

Merignac
France
Goat.

Merovingian
Northeast France
Semisoft; white; creamy; sharp; historic since the time of the
Merovingian kings.

Mersem
France
Lightly cooked.

Mesitra
Crimea
Eaten when fresh and unsalted; also when ripened.  Soft, ewe’s milk.

Mesost
Sweden
Whey; sweetish.

Metton
Franche-Comte, France
Season October to June.

Meuse
France
Soft; piquant; aromatic.

Midget Salami Provolone U.S.A. This goes Baby Goudas and Edams one better by being a sort of sausage, too.

Mignot Calvados, France White, No.  I: Soft; fresh; in small cubes or cylinders; in season only in summer, April to September.