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Mary Leland savours a golden cheese in a solid
farmhouse in historical surrounds.
"THERE are two reasons why I
have to be very grateful to Imelda Sheedy-King. First she introduced
me to a wonderful Irish farmhouse cheese, and second, she didn’t eat
me without salt when I wondered what might bring people to Kilmallock.
The cheese is Bay Lough –
produced by Keatings at Clogheen, Co Tipperary – a semi-soft
unpasteurised product with ripe, golden, cheddar-like aroma and
lingering taste; eaten with apple tart in the sunlight of Imelda’s
kitchen this seem to express all the very best of the fruits of the
earth (Irish milk, Irish cheese, Irish apples and Irish artisan
skills) and I made something of a pig of myself, so great was may
enthusiasm.
As for Kilmallock, where
Imelda wins national and international applause for the consistent
excellence of her farmhouse accommodation al Flemingstown, this is a
town where there has always been something going on. Imelda’s home is
the centre of a thriving farm now run by her family; the bathroom
windows overlook the paddocks behind the house, the bedrooms look down
across the lawns and pastures to the hills witch frame this valley,
lying as it does between the Ballyhouras and Galtee mountains.
Although the house itself has been restored and refurbished and added
to through the tears, Flemigstown remains an honest-to-God farmhouse,
layered with the influence of generations of people who knew how to
make a house comfortable...
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