jQuery - setting the selected value of a select control via its text description

Question

I have a select control, and in a javascript variable I have a text string.

Using jQuery I want to set the selected element of the select control to be the item with

Answer 1

I do it on this way (jQuery 1.9.1)

$("#my-select").val("Dutch").change();

Note: don't forget the change(), I had to search to long because of that :)