Factory Cheddar
U.S.A.

Very Old Factory Cheddar is the trade name for well-aged sharp Cheddar.  New Factory is just that—­mild, young and tractable—­too tractable, in fact.

Farm
France

Known as Ferme; Maigre (thin); Fromage a la Pie (nothing to do with apple pie); and Mou (weak).  About the same as our cottage cheese.

Farmer
U.S.A.

This is curd only and is nowadays mixed with pepper, lachs, nuts, fruits, almost anything.  A very good base for your own fancy spread, or season a slab to fancy and bake it like a hoe cake, but in the oven.

Farmhouse see Herrgardsost.

Farm Vale
England

Cream cheese of Somerset wrapped in tin foil and boxed in wedges, eight to a box.

Fat cheese see Frontage Gras and Maile Pener.

Fenouil see Tome de Savoie.

Ferme see Farm.

Feta see Chapter 3.

Feuille de Dreux
Bearn, France

November to May.

“Filled cheese”
England

Before our processed and food cheese era some scoundrels in the cheese business over there added animal fats and margarine to skimmed milk to make it pass as whole milk in making cheese.  Such adulteration killed the flavor and quality, and no doubt some of the customers.  Luckily in America we put down this vicious counterfeiting with pure food laws.  But such foreign fats are still stuffed into the skimmed milk of many foreign cheeses.  To take the place of the natural butterfat the phony fats are whipped in violently and extra rennet is added to speed up coagulation.

Fin de Siecle
Normandy, France

Although this is an “all year” cheese its name dates it back to the years at the close of the nineteenth century.

Fiore di Alpe
Italy

Hard; sharp; tangy.  Romantically named “Flowers of the Alps.”

Fiore Sardo
Italy

Ewe’s milk.  Hard.  Table cheese when immature; a condiment when fully cured.

Flandre, Tuile de
France

A kind of Marolles.

Fleur de Deauville
France

A type of Brie, in season December to May.

Fleur des Alpes see Bel Paese and Millefiori.

Floedeost
Norway

Like Gjedeost, but not so rich because it’s made of cow’s milk.

Flotost
Norway

Although the name translates Cream Cheese it is made of boiled whey. 
Similar to Mysost, but fatter.

Flower
England

Soft and fragrant with petals of roses, violets, marigolds and such, delicately mixed in.  Since the English are so fond of oriental teas scented with jasmine and other flowers, perhaps they imported the idea of mixing petals with their cheese, since there is no oriental cheese for them to import except bean curd.