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  Cheese of the Month Club
Cheshire cheese owes its salty characteristic to the area's soil, which has a high concentration of underlying bedrock salt.
The Red Cheshire is organically dyed with annatto, a flavorless coloring agent made from the pulp of Annatto trees that are grown in the tropics.
Many cheese connoisseurs believe its origin to be based on an age-old recipe for Derby cheese that originated in Derbyshire, which is still well known for its farming and lush green pastures.
www.cheesemonthclub.com /pastnewsletters/vol4no4.htm   (1758 words)

  
 Cheshire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cheshire (or archaically the County of Chester) is a palatine county in North West England.
Cheshire's largest town is Warrington — although approximately half of the town lying to the north of the River Mersey and Manchester Ship Canal (the area covered by the pre-1974 County Borough) is traditionally part of Lancashire.
Cheshire is rich in canals, particularly the east of the county with its strategic importance between Manchester, Stoke and Birmingham.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cheshire   (897 words)

  
 CHESHIRE - LoveToKnow Article on CHESHIRE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The surface of Cheshire is mostly low and gently undulating or flat; but the broken line of the Peckforton hills, seldom exceeding 600 ft. in height, runs north and south flanking the valley of the Weaver on the west.
In the first half of the I9th century the condition of agriculture in Cheshire was notoriously backward; and in 1865-1866 the county suffered with especial severity from a visitation of cattle plague.
In order that the shire might be relieved of all obligations beyond the ever-pressing necessity of defending its borders against the inroads of hostile neighbors, it was constituted a county palatine which the earl of Chester held as freely by his sword as the king held England by his crown.
www.1911ency.org /C/CH/CHESHIRE.htm   (2950 words)

  
 Cheshire Cat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Cheshire Cat is a fictional cat appearing in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.
There are reports that Carroll found inspiration for the Cheshire Cat in a carving in a church in the village of Croft-on-Tees, in the north east of England, where his father had been rector.
The Cheshire Cat is feature in the videogame Kingdom Hearts, in which Sora, Donald and Goofy have to deal with Cheshire Cat's riddles.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cheshire_cat   (952 words)

  
 Gourmet Cheese of the Month Club - Cheese Club
The county of Cheshire was originally made famous for its sheep’s milk cheeses, but Cheshire cheese has always been made from cow’s milk, as are most of the cheeses made in northern England.
Cheshire cheese has a slightly salty flavor, owing to the characteristics of the area’s soil, which has a high concentration of underlying bedrock salt.
In order to meet the standards that define Cheshire cheese, a cheese must be made solely from milk derived from pastures in the county of Cheshire and it must be created there as well.
www.cheesemonthclub.com /pastnewsletters/vol6no4.htm   (2013 words)

  
 Cheshire Genealogy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Cheshire, a palatine and maritime county of England, bounded on the NW.
Cheshire forms, towards the Irish Sea, a flat peninsula, the Wirrall [sic] (12 miles by 7 miles), between the estuaries of the Mersey and the Dee, and inland a vast plain separating the mountains of Wales from those of Derbyshire.
Cheshire : A Genealogical Bibliography by Stuart Raymond.
www.fhsc.org.uk /genuki/chs   (1141 words)

  
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The last notable mention of cheese in war was the name of the _Monitor_: "A cheese box on a raft." Romano is not as expensive as Parmesan, although it is as friable, sharp and tangy for flavoring, especially for soups such as onion and minestrone.
When this "chafing dish cheese custard," as it has been called in England, is ready for eating, each in turn thrusts in his fork, sops up a mouthful with the bread for a sponge and gives the Fondue a final stir, to keep it always moving in the same direction.
Cheese was the basis of the original French Ramequin, cheese and bread crumbs or puff paste, baked in a mold, (with puff again the principal factor in Soufflé, from the French _souffler_, puff up).
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/4/2/9/14293/14293-8.txt   (20020 words)

  
 Gourmet Farmhouse Cheese Rustling Wind Creamery
In the 16th century it was a favorite at the Court of Elizabeth I. Originally, Cheshire was made near the village of Chester on the River Dee, but it soon spread to farms throughout the county of Cheshire.
Originally, cheese making in Cheshire was practiced on farms during the Spring, Summer and Autumn to conserve the milk from the fresh grass.
Cheshire Cheese is a good melting cheese that has a semi-firm texture and a mild, tangy, almost cheddar-like flavor.
www.rustlingwind.com /cheesedescription.shtml   (252 words)

  
 Cheshire Cheese
Cheshire Cheese typically has between one third and one half of the salt content of Feta.
Cheshire Cheese is the UK 's largest selling crumbly cheese with sales of around 6,500 tonnes per year.
The most plausible explanation is perhaps the manner in which Cheshire cheese would be moulded into cat shapes and eaten from the tail, leaving only the grinning head on the plate.
www.cheshirecat.co.uk /index.htm   (295 words)

  
 Cheshire cheese - Allrecipes
Hailing from the county of Cheshire, this rich, cow's-milk CHEESE comes in three varieties-white, red and blue-and has a reputation as one of England's most famous CHEESEs.
The white (actually pale yellow) and red (apricot-colored) Cheshires are very similar, differing mainly in the fact that the red variety has been dyed with ANNATTO.
They're young CHEESEs, having an average age of 8 weeks, with a semifirm texture and a mild, tangy, cheddarlike flavor.
allrecipes.com /HowTo/Cheshire-cheese/Detail.aspx   (178 words)

  
 Forbes.com - Magazine Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In Cheshire, parts of Shropshire (where Abbey Farm is) and Staffordshire, the rich sedimentary salt deposits under the pastures transmit themselves through the milk into the cheese, giving it a fresh marine taste.
A pure white cheese that is pressed to give it a firm yet crumbly and flaky texture, it's made from milk from cows grazing on the surrounding limestone pastures.
English cheeses that are any good at all should be eaten one at a time, to savor the cheese's unique character in itself, not mashed together to make some kind of Frankenstein's monster of a cheese.
www.forbes.com /2003/02/12/cx_cr_0212feat_print.html   (1768 words)

  
 Cheshire and Organic Cheese - H S Bourne - Traditional farmhouse and organic Cheshire Cheese since 1930
Our aim is to produce a cheese much closer in flavour and texture to the great Cheshires of years ago, than to the modern industrially processed style of mild and crumbly.
Our hand made Cheshires are matured carefully for up to 12 months to produce cheeses that are equally 'at home' as part of a 'cheesy' recipe, or at the centre of an after dinner cheese board.
This cheese was created many years ago to satisfy the ever increasing demand for a return to the fuller flavoured Cheshire.
www.hsbourne.co.uk /cheshire_cheese_organic_cheese.htm   (729 words)

  
 Food Facts & Trivia: Cheese
Cheese was popular in ancient Greece and Rome, but fresh milk and butter were not.
Coloring may have originally been added to cheese made with winter milk from cows eating hay to match the orange hue (from vitamin A) of cheeses made with milk from cows fed on green plants.
Cheese takes up about 1/10 the volume of the milk it was made from.
www.foodreference.com /html/fcheese.html   (514 words)

  
 gourmet cheese, gourmet food from europe: cheeseline.com
Factory-made Cheshire often comes in block form and, as is so often the case, there is a substantial difference in quality between the farmhouse and the factory cheese.
Cheshire cheese has a loose and crumbly texture, much more friable and moist than many other hard cheeses.
White Cheshire is pale in color while Red Cheshire is a deep peachy orange color which comes from annatto dye.
www.cheeseline.com /Products.aspx?PId=100370   (276 words)

  
 Waitrose.com recipes - Leek and Cheshire Cheese Tart - Recipe Search
The honey adds a little sweetness to complement the cheese and leeks.
Crumble the Cheshire cheese and add to the egg mixture, stirring in carefully.
Remove the baking beans and parchment paper from the pastry shell and spoon the leek mixture into the base.
www.waitrose.com /food_drink/recipes/recipesearch/recipe/0607ss46-r04.asp   (381 words)

  
 English Cheese: Cheshire
, the cheese of the rich and the poor, the king and the peasant, the sailor and the soldier.
Cheshire is also produced by a cheddaring process, and it has a similar, firm and creamy but also crumbly texture, with a buttery, salty flavor and a lemony finish.
responds well to heating and is a traditional cheese to use in Welsh Rarebit: toast topped with a mixture of grated cheese, onion, mustard and beer, then broiled until browned.
www.hospitalityguild.com /cheese/04Cheshire.htm   (222 words)

  
 Cheshire, Massachusetts Located In The Berkshires, Cheshire MA Information, Berkshire County
Cheshire was incorporated in 1793, and its residents were strongly partisan in the election battles of the country's early days.
Because Cheshire specialized in dairying and making cheese, they decided to send a gift to the president of a Cheshire cheese, but one using curds from every farmer in town.
Cheshire is about 10 miles north of Pittsfield, 138 miles northwest of Boston, and 157 miles from New York City.
www.justtheberkshires.com /cheshire.htm   (596 words)

  
 The Teddington Cheese description of Appleby's Cheshire
Cheshire is considered to be the oldest British cheese.
Genuine Cheshire is said to be made with the milk from cattle grazed on the salty pastures of the Cheshire plain in Cheshire, Shropshire and Clywd.
Although they have a large farm with 290 Fresian cows and a cheese vat that appears to be the size of a swimming pool, they still are still able to make one of the finest Cheshires to be found.
www.teddingtoncheese.co.uk /acatalog/de253.htm   (416 words)

  
 STL hotel - Cheshire Lodge
The Cheshire’s low-slung complex of restaurant (“Inn”) and hotel (“Lodge”) is some 10 minutes away by highway from the city’s main commercial district.
Cheshire Inn and Lodge was the most popular restaurant and hotel in St. Louis.
In 1989, the Cheshire Inn restaurant including the Tap Room Bar and all 9 banquet rooms was leased to the Leuders family.
www.cheshirelodge.net /AboutCh.htm   (1188 words)

  
 The Great British Kitchen
Cheshire cheese is a splendid cheese, slightly salty and crumbly with a nutty flavour and smooth texture.
Cheshire cheese takes only a few hours to make and ripens in four to eight weeks.
The salty tang of Cheshire cheese is said to derive from the salt marshes that once covered the Cheshire Plain.
www.greatbritishkitchen.co.uk /rc_cheshire.htm   (917 words)

  
 Cheshire Cheese - Glossary - Hormel Foods
Blue Chesire is a cheese produced until the late 1990's that was crumbly in texture and was made with a natural blue fade throughout the cheese.
Since the Cheshire has a texture that is open it easily allowed for the blue molding to occur as it aged in cheese cellars, becoming dry and crumbly as it matured.
The Cheshire cheeses are often served as a snack, an appetizer cheese or with fruit.
www.hormel.com /kitchen/glossary.asp?id=33147   (266 words)

  
 A TASTE OF BRITAIN: Cheshire - Cheese, Pye and Pudding
Cheshire Cheese is a crumbly, salty cheese with a nutty flavour.
The traditional method of making Cheshire cheese involves leaving milk from the evening milking to stand until the morning, when it is mixed with the morning's milk and a starter culture is added.
Cheshire soup is a traditional way of using up cheese in a hot, filling recipe.
www.timetravel-britain.com /columns/taste/taste04.shtml   (1445 words)

  
 Cheshire Cheese - LGB Newsletter
First published in February 1995 (click the image above for a larger view), Cheshire Cheese is a monthly four page news and information sheet, available free of charge to the gay, lesbian and bisexual communities based within the county of Cheshire.
Cheshire Cheese regularly includes news of local and national events that may be of interest to the Cheshire community, plus details of venues, social groups and community projects.
Cheshire Cheese is free to individuals and organisations alike.
www.bpcnw.co.uk /cheshirecheese/about.htm   (232 words)

  
 Diet and Victualling
It may be significant that the two early sources also instruct that Cheshire Cheese be issued at two thirds the weight of Suffolk, whereas none of the later sources mention any such provision.
(Thus Cheshire was produced also in Staffs, Derbys, Leics and Wales.) Whilst there were traditional sizes and shapes for cheeses there does seem to have been quite a variation in both size and shape of the cheeses produced, determined by the size and shape of the cheese press cobbled together on each Farm.
These ‘green’ cheeses have next to no shelf life and are generally eaten only on, or about the Farm of origin.
www.hms.org.uk /nelsonsnavycheese.htm   (1177 words)

  
 The Teddington Cheese description of Appleby's Smoked Cheshire
Genuine Cheshire is said to be made with the milk from cattle grazed on the salty pastures of the Cheshire plain in Cheshire, Shropshire and Clwyd.
Legend has it that because its reputation was so good, some Welsh farmers labelled their own cheese as Cheshire and sold it to coach travellers on the Holyhead to London route.
Traditionally smoking cheeses was used as a preservative, but today it is being increasingly used by farmhouse cheesemakers to add an extra dimension to their cheese.
www.teddingtoncheese.co.uk /acatalog/de254.htm   (458 words)

  
 Apple and Cheshire cheese crumble
Cheshire cheese, thought to be Britain's oldest named cheese, combines with apples for a twist on a traditional crumble
Break the Cheshire cheese into large pieces and scatter over the apples.
The Apple Cheshire cheese crumble is best served with Greek-style yoghurt, custard or creme fraiche.
www.ivillage.co.uk /food/tools/recipefinder/display_recipe/0,10193,6515,00.html   (162 words)

  
 Dairy and Egg Products - Nutritional Information - eLook.org
Cheese food, pasteurized process, american, with di sodium phosphate
Cheese food, pasteurized process, american, without di sodium phosphate
Cheese spread, pasteurized process, american, with di sodium phosphate
www.elook.org /nutrition/dairy   (79 words)

  
 Gourmet Cheeses, Books, Kits, Cheese Parties, and Cheese Supplies - Cheshire
One of the oldest English cheeses, invented during the 12th century.
There are three types of Cheshire: White, Red (colored with annatto) and Blue which is punctured during the curing process, resulting in blue veins.
This white Cheshire is firm in texture and a bit more crumbly than Cheddar.
www.cheesesupply.com /product_info.php/products_id/290   (104 words)

  
 Recipes HQ : Cheese Recipes
Cheese recipes for appetizers, finger foods and family meals by featured chefs.Find dinner plans for the family and the cook who loves cheesy food.
Cheshire and Organic Cheese - HS Bourne - Traditional farmhouse...
This cheese ball is made with cream cheese, Cheddar cheese, garlic, pecans orpeanuts, and other ingredients.
www.recipes-hq.com /cheeserecipes/index.php   (640 words)

  
 Olde Cheshire Cheese Pub, City of London, - Traditional and Historic London Pub Guide @ Pubs.com
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese is one of the few pubs in London that can justify the 'Ye Olde' in its name.
A portrait of one of the Cheese's most famous patrons, Dr. Samuel Johnson (his house is around the corner) hangs on a far wall, and his chair set upon a shelf.
One famous resident was a parrot who's mimicry entertained customers for 40 years, its death was announced on the BBC and obituaries appeared in newspapers all over the world.
www.pubs.com /pub_details.cfm?ID=216   (529 words)

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