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morge or morgée

English translation: smear ripened

20:43 Aug 23, 2006

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Food & Dairy / Cheese

French term or phrase: morge or morgée

Apart from a referene to a type of cheese called "Mylord" I can find nothing anywhere to describe what this means. I would be hugely grateful for any suggestions! Here it is in context ... "croûte fine avec morge de couleur pâte blanche, avec quelques ouvertures biologiques
croûte lisse jaune orangée, légèrement morgée, sans moisissures"
thanks

Britaly KudoZ activity Questions: 63 (none open) (2 without valid answers) (2 closed without grading) Answers: 84 France
Local time: 11:13

English translation:smear ripened

Explanation:
sounds disgusting - only for scientific use. I would put 'morge' (even this sounds a bit deathly) and give a short explanation in brackets or some similar trick of the tail...

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Note added at 16 mins (2006-08-23 21:00:36 GMT)
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check this out: http://www.fromag.com/dicos.html
Also, if you look at the big, dodgy Grand Dictionnaire under smear, it sends you to Peau de Crapaud (but gives a good explanation) .... bon appetit

Selected response from:

Connor
France
Local time: 11:13

Grading comment

Bravo for the dGD ... and thanks. It came up with viscous and sticky mmm....
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +2

cheese smear

Dolores Vázquez

4 +1

smear ripened

Connor

washed-rind cheese

Daniela Ciafardoni

morge, morge-wiped

Bourth

Answers

1 min confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

cheese smear

Explanation:
substance gluante qui se forme à la surface de certains fromages(Clement).

Reference: http://ec.europa.eu/eurodicautom/Controller

Dolores Vázquez
Spain
Native speaker of:

Galician,

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 4

Notes to answerer

Asker: Hi Rachel - this is a "fin gourmet" goat's cheese - only for experienced nibblers apparently

8 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

smear ripened

Connor
France
Local time: 11:13
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

Bravo for the dGD ... and thanks. It came up with viscous and sticky mmm....

1 hr confidence:

washed-rind cheese

Explanation:
Another idea could be:
Washed-rind cheeses are periodically bathed in a saltwater brine as they age, making their surfaces amenable to a class of bacteria (the reddish-orange "smear bacteria").

Saumure : Solution à base d’eau et de sel avec laquelle on frotte les fromages ou dans laquelle on plonge les fromages à pâte dure ou demi-dure afin de durcir la croûte et ainsi de mieux les conserver. On dit aussi morge.

Example sentence(s):

What really sets washed-rind cheeses apart, however, is how they are ripened. During the curing stage, they are washed regularly in a mild brine solution containing a substance known as red smear. Often, at the beginning of the ripening process, colouring

Daniela Ciafardoni
United Kingdom
Local time: 10:13
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English,

Italian
PRO pts in category: 3

1 hr confidence:

morge, morge-wiped

Explanation:
Morge - Brine enriched with scrapings from old cheeses, used to rub the surfaces of some cheeses during affinage
[Dorling Kindersley "French Cheeses"]

The cheese is pressed, brine-soaked and aged, during which time it is rubbed with salt and wiped with a cloth soaked in a morge (made by mixing the sticky, brown rinds of old cheese with saltwater.).
http://www.cheesesupply.com/product_info.php?products_id=49

So it's not something that occurs naturally. However I'm not sure if the "morge" on a cheese is this mixture or a surface coating induced by the treatment (through biological action).

Bourth
France
Local time: 11:13
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 101