Pannequets au Fondue Pancakes with Cheese Fondue Filling

In the thirteenth century cheese was used as a substitute for cement in England, when the cheese got stale, that is. I don’t advocate keeping your cheese that long just to find out if it works, but it is a pretty incredible thought.

Another thing I heard when I was in Cheshire was an old custom whereby under the system of tythes in that county, the farmers used to pay their rents in cheeses. There’s also a church in a little village up there which has a chest with a particularly hea