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  Dorset
Dorset (pronounced ''Dorsit'', sometimes in the past called '''Dorsetshire''') is a county in the southwest of England, on the English Channel coast.
Dorset borders Devon to the west, Somerset to the north-west, Wiltshire to the north-east and Hampshire to the east.
Dorset is famed in literature for being the native county of author and poet Thomas Hardy.
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  Dorset Blue Vinney cheese - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dorset blue vinney is a traditional blue cheese made in Dorset, England, from skimmed cows' milk.
"Vinney" is a local Dorset term related to the obsolete word "vinew", which means to become mouldy.
This is considered healthy by some and risky by others due to the potential for tuberculosis from infected cows passing into the milk.
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 Ingredients: Blue Cheese
Some blue cheeses are injected with spores before the curds have been formed and others have spores mixed in with the curds before they are formed.
Blue cheeses are typically aged in a temperature-controlled environment such as a cave.
The characteristic flavor of blue cheeses tends to be sharp and a bit salty.
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 Cheese
Cheese is a foodstuff made from the curdled milk of various animals including cows, goats, sheep, and water buffalo.
Bacteria are added to cheese to add flavor, and some cheeses also have molds, either on the outer skin or thoughout.
Cheese is naturally white so it is common to add color, for example hard cheeses often have annatto[?] or carotene added to make them yellow.
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Blue cheese, known in French as bleu ("blue"), is a general classification of cow's milk, sheep's milk, or goat's milk cheeses that has had Penicillium cultures added so that the final product is spotted or veined throughout with blue or blue-green mold.
Some blue cheeses are injected with spores before the curds form and others have spores mixed in with the curds after they form.
Much like wines, many blue cheeses such as Roquefort, Gorgonzola, and Stilton are a protected designation of origin in the European Union, meaning they can bear the name only if they have been made in a particular region in a certain country.
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Dorset is famous for its beautiful coastline, the Jurassic Coast, which features landforms such as Lulworth Cove, the Isle of Portland, Chesil Beach and Durdle Door, as well as the holiday resorts of Bournemouth, Poole, Weymouth, Swanage, and Lyme Regis.
Dorset is not especially famous in sport, though football league one A.F.C. Bournemouth, and minor county cricket club Dorset CCC play in the county.
Dorset is famed in literature for being the native county of author and poet Thomas Hardy, and many of the places he describes in his novels in the fictional Wessex are in Dorset.
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 Dorset information - Search.com
Dorset is famous for its picturesque coastline, the Jurassic Coast, which features unique landforms such as Lulworth Cove, the Isle of Portland, Chesil Beach and Durdle Door, as well as the holiday resorts of Poole, Bournemouth, Weymouth, Swanage and Lyme Regis.
Dorset's high chalk hills have provided a location for defensive settlements for millennia, with neolithic and bronze age burial mounds on almost every chalk hill in the county, and a number of iron age hill forts, the most famous being Maiden Castle.
Dorset has many notable Roman artifacts, particularly around the Roman town Dorchester, where Maiden Castle was captured from the Celtic Durotriges by Vespasian in 54 AD, early in the Roman occupation.
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Dorset blue vinney (frequently spelled "vinny") is a traditional blue cheese made in Dorset, England, from skimmed cows' milk.
"Vinney" is a local Dorset term related to the obsolete word "vinew", which means to become mouldy.
While the cheese was a common farmhouse cheese in Dorset for hundreds of years, production dried up around 1960 and the cheese became extinct.
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 Blue Cheeses - colston basset - dorset blue vinney - stilton cheese
It was in common use all over the country until the 16th century when it became confined to the dialect of the South-West and was, in particular, associated with the Dorset cheese.
An unusual British blue cheese in that it is made with skimmed milk, one of the few.
A good blue Vinny, although unpressed, is quite a hard, crumbly cheese; paler, with lighter, finer veins than Stilton, it is also drier and tighter with a rounded sharpness and a positive taste of blue.
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 Blue Vinney - Review - Dorset Blue Vinney with Knobs On
A good blue Vinny is quite a hard, crumbly cheese; paler, with lighter, finer veins than a Stilton, it is also drier and tighter with a rounded sharpness and a positive taste of blue.
In order to produce flavour and character, specialist cheeses tend to be handmade on the farm on a small scale using traditional methods, and as with Blue Vinney, from unpasteurised milk.
Traditional artisan cheese makers who usually produce their cheese from the one single herd have fought long and hard to reverse the government ruling in 1989, that all cheese had to be made from pasteurised milk, resulting in an entirely different tasting product.
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 Dorset Blue Vinney cheese - Japan
Dorset blue vinney (frequently spelled "vinny") is a traditional blue cheese made in Dorset, England, from skimmed cows' milk.
"Vinney" is a local Dorset term related to the obsolete word "vinew", which means to become mouldy.
While the cheese was a common farmhouse cheese in Dorset for hundreds of years, production dried up around 1960 and the cheese became extinct.
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 Dorset Blue Vinney cheese -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Dorset Blue Vinney cheese -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
Dorset blue vinney is a traditional blue (A solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk) cheese made in (Click link for more info and facts about Dorset) Dorset, (A division of the United Kingdom) England, from skimmed cows' milk.
"Vinney" is a local Dorset usage related to the obsolete word "vinew", which basically means to become moldy.
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 Alphabetical Display
A semihard cheese with blue mold introduced to it during the aging stage.
Cheeses with a moisture content of 50% or lower and blue veins from mold introduced during the aging process.
Identical to Blue Stilton, except blue mold is not introduced to the cheese in the aging stage.
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 Dorset - Free net encyclopedia
The county town is Dorchester, situated in the south of the county at Template:Coor dms.
Image:Dorset ca mh.jpeg Dorset is famed in literature for being the native county of author and poet Thomas Hardy.
Dorset is a popular area for celebrities to retreat to, and those who have moved to or own second homes in Dorset include Madonna and Guy Ritchie, actor Martin Clunes, singer-songwriter Billy Bragg, Jonathan Ross, and footballer Jamie RedknappBBC Dorset, n.d.
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 Cheese   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Bacteria are added to cheese to add flavor, and some cheeses also have molds, either on the outer skin or thoughout.
Cheese is naturally white so it is common to add color, for example hard cheeses often have annatto[?] or carotene added to make them yellow.
In addition, there is a class of foodstuff known as processed cheese or "cheese food[?]".
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 The Great British Kitchen
The cheese is matured for about 4 months to produce a cheese with a subtle, succulent flavour, especially favoured by those who find traditional blue cheeses too strong.
A rindless, white soft cheese with blue veining and a distinctive flavour.
Oxford Blue is a soft blue cheese with a creamy, mild flavour.
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 Dorset .com
Agriculture was once the chief industry in Dorset, however due to mechanisation the number of workers has been extensively reduced.
The Dorset Knob, a hard biscuit, is one of Dorset's famous products and is especially recommended to accompany the local Dorset cheese Blue Vinney.
A reflection on a few of Dorset's industries wouldn't be complete without acknowledging the bizarre addition, that of Britain's largest oilfield at Wytch Farm.
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 Chefsref Encyclopedia
The basic concept behind cheese is pretty simple, remove the water by forming curds (either by adding rennet or sour milk)and combine the curds in a variety of ways with molds and bacteria which flavor the cheese then allow it to ripen.
Dorset Blue Vinney is a regional cheese made only in Dorset.It is a hard cheese made from cow's milk.
Is a white, slightly salty and crumbly cheese with a rich flavor, the hard, thin, natural rind is pale gold and textured from the clothit is molded in.
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 Cheese
Cheese is a foodstuff made from the curdled milk of various animals including cows, goats, sheep, and water buffalo.
Rennet is an enzyme obtained from the stomach lining of cows, although a microbiological (laboratory produced) substitute is often used.
The first commercial cheese factory was founded on February 3, 1815 in Switzerland.
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 Dorset Blue Vinney | Ask MetaFilter
The book 'Cheese Primer' by Steven Jenkins is a good overall resource about cheese, and it may contain the info you seek.
"Vinney" was derived from the Old English vinew, a word for mold, but the original Blue Vinney died out by the beginning of WWII.
If it truly exists at all, Blue Vinney is said to be a Dorset cows-milk cheese made on just one farm between Dorchester and Puddletown.
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 Denhay Farms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Most farmers owned no more than 5 or 6 cows and they would skim the milk for butter, make a Blue Vinney cheese (see page 00) with the skimmed milk and sell these along with their eggs at the markets from Axminster to Bridport.
The Streatfeilds, a husband and wife team of George and Amanda, have always kept pigs; this was also a traditional and economically sound practise on dairy farms as the pigs could be fed the whey, a by-product of cheese and butter-making.
Their pigs are sent off to slaughter and they buy the long cut legs (leg and chump) for the hams and the short middles (from the chump to the shoulder) for the bacon.
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 Dorset, Tasmania - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Dorset, Tasmania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Dorset, Tasmania - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Dorset, Tasmania.
The Municipality of Dorset is a local government area of Tasmania, encompassing the north-east part of the state.
The major town in the area is the regional centre Scottsdale, and smaller towns Branxholm, Bridport, Derby and Winnaleah.
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 Curds and Whey
This soft cheese has a continental character, yet it is made in Perthshire by Howgate Cheesemakers by Royal Appointment to Her Majesty the Queen.
The cheeses are hand made in the traditional manner and are ripened in an underground cellar before being sent to cheese shops throughout the country.
The cheese is 'washed' in kentish wine and brine which produces the apricot coloured rind and softening of the interior.
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 bluevinney
The publishable and rather charming legend is said, that because Blue Vinney is a low fat cheese using skimmed milk, this could sometimes restrict the mould needed to turn the cheese blue.
Blue Vinney is a specialist cheese with the specialist market being very different from the mass market.
Dorset Knobs are light, crisp roll-shaped biscuits produced by Moores of Morecombelake Dorset.
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 Dorset Blue Vinny Cheese Review - CheeseReviews.org
Dorset Blue Vinny is one of those wild cheeses that makes cheese really fun.
In the "olden days" Blue Vinny was a common cheese made at many Dorset farms with cows.
But since low fat skim milk generally doesn't have enough fat to encourage mold growth, the cheese would sometimes (so the stories go) be set on the floor along with some piece of moldy clothing or soggy burlap sacks.
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 List of British cheeses - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of cheeses from Britain.
Caboc cheese is a Scottish cheese with an oatmeal coating.
Huntsman cheese is a combination of Stilton and Double Gloucester.
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 S Moores   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In the 18th century there was a small but thriving button cottage industry in Dorset: one of the most popular buttons was the hand sewn Dorset Knob and, apparently, it is after these that the Dorset Knob biscuit is named.
It is not that that there is any season as such for making Dorset Knobs, rather that S Moores as so busy with their other biscuits that knobs have been relegated to a brief period of production between January and March.
I really like them; they are a particularly good with a salty cheese and best of all with a soft salty cheese when their crunchy, crisp texture acts as a good contrast of textures.
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 Original Artwork: Keith Bowen: The Milkman
These include the native cheese of Cheddar Gorge in Somerset, the sheep cheese of Devon, and Dorset Blue Vinney cheese.
The town of Melton Mowbray is the home of Stilton cheese, and seventeen gallons of milk, the liquid equivalent of one hundred and thirty -six pounds, are required to produce a single fifteen-pound cheese.
The milk is curdled, the curds are scooped out for the cheese and the remaining whey is fed to the pigs raised in the area.
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 CONK! Encyclopedia: Culture_of_England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Cider is produced in the West Country, and the south of England has seen the reintroduction of vineyards producing high quality white wine on a comparatively small scale.
England produces a range of cheeses in various regions, including:
Morris dancing is one of the more visible English folk traditions, with many differing regional variations.
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 How Is Blue Cheese Made Article Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Bla Castello (Blue Castello) is a Danish, modern, creamery blue cheese made from cow's milk...
Blue cheese is made from pasteurised milk and is available prepacked...
Bayley Hazen Blue is a natural rinded blue cheese made with whole raw milk...
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 Monte Python "Cheese Shop" Sketch: Analysis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The cheese is laboriously handmade and derives solely from the March-to-June milk of free range Podoliche cattle who feast on blueberries, cornelian cherries, wild strawberries, juniper and other treats that all impart their aromas to the finished product.
Though quite well known, the rarest French cheese is said by many to be Ossau-Iraty, an unpasteurized ewe's milk semi-soft made by Basques.
Bleu de Termignon is also prestigious and very rare, said to come exclusively from eight or ten Alpine cows of the mahogany Tarentais breed owned by a woman in her nineties.
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