Glossary C
Cottage Loaf refers to a traditional crusty loaf of white bread, made by placing a small ball of dough on top of a large one, producing a loaf with a topknot.
The term "Cottage" tend to denote something of a countryside or a rurally, hence a Cottage Loaf may also denote to a bread traditionally made in the early times in the countryside or baked in countryside style/manner.
Cottage Soup refers to the Irish meatless vegetable soup seasoned with salt and pepper and a dab of butter, finished with a roux and sprinkled with grated cheese.
Roux refers to a base for sauces of combination of fat or oil and flour that is gently cooked and then mixed with stock or milk or whatever is required for the sauce, brought to the boil and simmered.
Cottenham Cheese refers to a double-cream, semi-hard, blue-moulded cheese which used to be made in the Midlands, a little flatter and broader than Stilton, but otherwise quite siimilar to it, although, in flavor, somewhat richer and creamier than Stilton.
Cottenham is a village just north of Cambridge and it was the home of the Cottenham Cheese, a "liitle known" cheese which was described in Elizabeth Ayrton’s book as "double cream with blue veins, very like Stilton”. The recipe of Cottenham Cheese still exists and and the people in the village of Cottenham still produce them and made available only locally
Cottenham Cheese is also known as Double Cottenham Cheese.
- Chelan (Cherry) : Chelan refers to the leading variety of early-ripening sweet cherry of the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Fruit ripens two weeks ahead of Bing, yet resembles Bing with firm, high quality, round, dark red, heart-shaped fruit of good size (moderately large) . The best deep, good flavored, mahogany red cherry matures two weeks ahead of Bing and less susceptible or quite resistant to rain-cracking.