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Cheddar cheese Country of origin England Region Somerset Town Cheddar, Somerset Source of milk Cow Pasteurised Depends on variety Texture Relatively hard Aging time 3–24 months depending on variety Certification West Country Farmhouse Cheddar (PDO) Orkney Scottish Island Cheddar (PGI) Named after Cheddar Related media on Commons Cheddar cheese (or simply cheddar) is a natural cheese that is ...
The manufacture of Cheddar cheese includes the process of cheddaring, which makes this cheese unique. Cheddar cheese is named for the village of Cheddar in Somerset in South West England where it was originally manufactured. The manufacturing of this cheese has since spread around the world and thus the name has become generically known.
The list excludes specific brand names, unless a brand name is also a distinct variety of cheese. While the term "American cheese" is legally used to refer to a variety of processed cheese, many styles of cheese originating in Europe are also made in the United States, such as brie, cheddar, gouda, mozzarella, and provolone.
The English method of producing cheddar cheese was known in America as "the Joseph Harding Method". [10] [11] Joseph Harding described good cheese as: "close and firm in texture, yet mellow in character or quality; it is rich with a tendency to melt in the mouth, the flavour full and fine, approaching to that of a hazlenut". [12]
Cheese and onion pie is a savoury dish, [1] the basis of which is an outer layer of savoury pastry filled with a mixture of cheese, onion, herbs and sometimes potato. Many recipes contain Lancashire cheese , indicating an origin in North West England.
Orkney Scottish Island Cheddar: PGI: 2013 Single Gloucester: PDO: 1996 Staffordshire Cheese: PDO: 2007 Swaledale cheese: PDO: 1996 Swaledale ewes´ cheese: PDO: 1996 Teviotdale Cheese: PGI: 1998 Traditional Ayrshire Dunlop: PGI 2015 Traditional Welsh Caerphilly: PGI 2018 West Country farmhouse Cheddar cheese: PDO: 1996 White Stilton cheese ...
British colonists made cheddar cheese soon after their arrival in North America. By 1790, American-made cheddars were being exported back to England. According to Robert Carlton Brown, author of The Complete Book of Cheese, what was known in America as yellow cheese or store cheese was known as American cheddar or Yankee cheddar in England. [3]
Pictured is a 15th/16th-century recipe for Banbury cheese. Cheddar cheese: Cheddar, Somerset: The UK's most famous cheese, and one of the most popular. Stilton Cheese: Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire: Stilton is produced in two varieties: Blue, which has had Penicillium roqueforti added to generate a characteristic smell and taste, and White ...