Word: stilton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that's a fish-cutlets-we took a little hock; 4) we went on to roast duckling with a truly magnificent claret, St. Emilion Clos Fourtet 1943, I believe; 5) this was followed by oeufs benedictines . . . The second claret-by tradition we always take two-came with the Stilton cheese. Then we adjourned for a little fruit and some Cockburn '35-great port, that. 6) Some time later-around two in the morning-we decided that the time had come to invite the junior dean, Mr. John Cooper, to have a swim...
Still, while it lasts, the brush starts a fire in a frightfully brainy novel-writing number named Florence Craye and a slow burn in her brawny fiancé, G. D'Arcy (Stilton) Cheesewright. The subplots, all highly glutinous (sticky, to lesser men), involve 1) a pawned pearl necklace, 2) the sale by Aunt Dahlia* of a cherished weekly, 3) a blighter who writes poetry designed to produce persp. on any decent citizen's brow. The solutions developed in Jeeves's think-tank may seem a little watery to the highbrow-critic chaps. But looking at the rosier...
Starting with only a few men in the "cheesy" set, the Society attracted 19 men to its meeting, "English Night," at which the members sampled English cheddar and Stilton cheese...
...Castle Hotel in Taunton, a visiting chevalier of the Cercle Gastronomique de Belgique went home to Belgium and talked his fellow epicures into awarding the English hotel its Grand Prix for the year. He was eloquent in praise of the roast duckling, the apple tart, the port-touched Stilton. Castle Chef Charles Instep accepted the prize (a silver cup, 18 inches high) for himself and England with becoming modesty. "We can't always please 100% of our customers," he said. "I just try to please...
...bears witness: "I must have from Fordhook likewise four hams, a very fine hog fatted as soon as may be and being cut into flitches sent me, likewise a young hog made into pork and salted and pickled in a tub. A vast large Cheshire cheese, and one of Stilton, it to be had good and mild . . . God bless you and yours...