Shorrocks Traditional Lancashire Cheese Bomb LARGE- 460g

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Creamy Lancashire cheese is made by this traditional method and matured for a period of four to twelve weeks. It has a fluffy texture and creamy flavour, and is good for toasting, [4] as it does not become stringy when melted. Lamb Hotpot, or Lancashire Hotpot, is a delicious traditional stew made from lamb with onion and potato. Adding a helping of Lancashire Bomb boosts the creaminess. EU Protected Food Names Scheme: Beacon Fell traditional Lancashire cheese". Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. 21 July 2003. Archived from the original on 6 November 2009 . Retrieved 20 July 2010. SMOKED SNOWDONIAis a mature cheddar style cheese that is naturally smoked over beechwood chippings, which allows a smokey flavour to run throughout the cheese. Slightly soft in texture, with a good full flavour that is not overbearing and retains the character of the cheese.

It has proven to be a great success in the North of England and is spreading South rapidly by word of mouth due to the great taste and originality of the product. For centuries, Lancashire dairy farmers’ wives made cheese from surplus milk. On small farms, there was insufficient milk from a single days milking to make a cheese, and so each day’s milk was curdled and accumulated for several days until there was enough curd to make a cheese. Two or three days’ curd of varying maturity are then blended together, giving Lancashire cheeses a distinctive character. Making a unique cheeses that can sit proudly amongst all British cheeses.

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Four hundred years ago there was no refrigeration and the historic Wookey Hole Caves near Wells in Somerset were the ideal place to mature cheeses. The temperature is a constant 11°C all year round, and the high humidity is also ideal to stop the cheese drying out during its maturation storage. Ashley Chase Estate in Dorset is one of the few farms where authentic handmade pregnancy friendly cheeses like this Cheddar are still produced.

Chorley Cakes and Lancashire Cheese" (PDF). VisitLancashire.com. Marketing Lancashire. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 April 2016 . Retrieved 3 November 2016. Lancashire is an English cow's-milk cheese from the county of Lancashire. There are three distinct varieties of Lancashire cheese. Young Creamy Lancashire and mature Tasty Lancashire are produced by a traditional method, whereas Crumbly Lancashire (more commonly known as Lancashire Crumbly within Lancashire) is a more recent creation suitable for mass production. SWALEDALE TRADITIONAL is made from locally sourced milk which displays the “Terroir” of the rich Swaledale meadows and pastures of Yorkshire. It is pasteurised prior to the cheese-making process and is extra matured, cloth bound and naturally rinded. SWALEDALE TRADITIONAL is based on an ancient recipe developed hundreds of years ago and has similar characteristics to a farmhouse Wensleydale, a brilliant alternative, but with softer and creamier notes and a more delicate less astringent flavour. Andrew has since been the original creator of the Lancashire Bomb, having originally made the first bomb as a leaving gift over 25 years ago for a friend emigrating to America. This was the start of this amazing product. TEMPLES WALSINGHAM is made by Mrs Temples is a Norfolk-based cheese supplier who creates handmade farmhouse cheeses. They raise their Brown Swiss and Holstein herd on the grass meadows of their farm in Wighton, Wells-next-the-sea. They use the milk to make delicious cheeses and the leftover whey and other waste to produce fertilizer for the meadows and bio-gas to power the facilities at the farm, proving they care about the environment, not just their cows. TEMPLES WALSINGHAM is an artisan pasteurised cow’s milk cheese. These pregnancy friendly cheeses are pressed and matured, with a crumbly texture and have been described as a cross between Wensleydale and Cheddar.

The Original Lancashire Bomb

Drink Pairing: It can be enjoyed on its own or is superb with some fruit and and a good red wine, like our Dolcetta de Alba