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#34(&35): Yorkshire Fettle

This ewe’s milk cheese is a Mediterranean salad style cheese from Shepherd’s Purse in North Yorkshire – definitely not feta as it’s not Greek.

Hand-salted and then hand-waxed to seal in the moisture, it comes without any excess briny liquid, and is less salty and has a firmer, creamier texture than many of its Greek counterparts.

How about it trying it in a beetroot and hazelnut salad, as recommended by its creator Judy Bell?

I’m on holiday next week folks, so there’ll be a gap in my Cheese-of-the-Weeking.

Monty xx

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#33: Fowler’s Sage Derby

Fowler’s of Earlswood, in Warwickshire, make our Sage Derby. Slightly less alarming looking than other sage derbies, which come marbled green, this one has an altogether more sophisticated look, with a layer of the tasty herb through the centre and a sprinkling on top. It’s a beautiful mellow creamy cheese with a savoury sage flavour.

And it gives me the perfect excuse for some children’s telly nostalgia. Herbidacious….

 

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#30: Crozier Blue

Crozier Blue is made by the Grubb family in Tipperary. You may be more familiar with Cashel Blue – their semi-soft cow’s milk blue  – but this one is their sheep’s milk cheese, and is in fact Ireland’s only sheep’s milk blue.

It has an off-white colour common to sheep’s cheeses, a modest amount of grey-blue veining, and a natural rind. Matured for longer than Cashel, it has a more traditional blue flavour complemented by the creaminess of the sheep’s milk. For those familiar with Mrs Bell’s, another sheep’s milk blue we’ve regularly had in the shop, I find Crozier creamier and a little less salty.

Let us know which you prefer.
Monty xx

PS have you seen me in the shop window? Think I may have enjoyed a few too many cheeses since the shop opened…

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#29: Harlech Mature Cheddar with Horseradish and Parsley

 

Seemingly Chinley’s favourite cheese, Harlech is very recognisable in our fridge in its bright orange wax. It’s a mature cheddar – not too strong, and quite moist – with a real up-your-nose horseradish flavour and flecks of parsley. Thanks to Julie who requested this when we first opened – it was a new one on us, but has been going down a storm ever since.

Monty x

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#28: Bourne’s Blue Cheshire

Last week’s Cheese Of The Week (getting a bit tardy with the computer stuff, sorry – but we always have the Cheese of the Week label in the shop if you pop in for a visit, and there is still a bit left) is Blue Cheshire from Bourne’s in Malpas. It combines the dry texture and slight sourness of their Cheshire with blue veining. A singular blue cheese to try.

Monty x

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#26: Cornish Yarg

Just to fill in a small gap here, last week’s Cheese of the Week was Cornish Yarg from Lynher Dairies.

Yes, that does look like a leaf on the rind – Yarg is famously wrapped in nettles, making an edible rind. The cheese itself has quite a mellow flavour, and a giving texture, becoming crumbly towards the core. A Gold Award winner at the recent British Cheese Awards no less.

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#24: Hawes Wensleydale Special Reserve

From the Wensleydale Creamery in Hawes, Wensleydale Special Reserve is a slightly aged version of the famous Yorkshire export, and is certainly worth the wait. It has the usual clean flavour and crumbly texture you’d expect of Wensleydale, but with a fuller flavour.

Cheese production in Hawes has a fantastic history. The first creamery was built in 1897, and just about survived the depression of the 1930s. Eventually finding itself in the hands of Dairy Crest, the creamery closed in May 1992, but former employees and a local businessman managed to get things back on track and cheese was produced in time for Christmas. Since then it has gone from strength to strength – it continues to make fantastic cheese, using local milk, helped along the way by some unlikely plasticine ambassadors.

Cracking cheese, Gromit