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Home » Dairy » Cheese » Semi-Firm Cheeses » Blue Cheeses » Bleu Bénédictin Cheese

Bleu Bénédictin Cheese

Bleu Bénédictin Cheese

Bleu Bénédictin Cheese. © CooksInfo / 2022

Bleu Bénédictin is a semi-soft blue cheese with a rind of blue mould dusted with whitish-grey. It is cream-coloured inside, with bluish-green veins of mould.

It has a milder taste than Roquefort or Stilton.

It is made from pasteurized whole cow’s milk treated with Roquefort penicillium mould.

The cheese is aged for three months. It becomes crumbly on the outside edges, yet smoother and creamier in the centre, and develops a mushroom-like aroma.

It is made in 2 kg (4 ½ pound) wheels, that are covered in gold foil with a blue striped label for shipping and sale.

It is milder than its sister cheese, Ermite, which is made at the same Benedictine monastery of Abbaye Saint-Benoît-du-Lac in Saint-Benoît-du-Lac on Lac Memphremagog in the St-Jean region of Québec.

Website: https://www.abbaye.ca/

History Notes

The monastery was founded in 1912; they started making cheese in 1943. Their first cheese was “Ermite” in that year. Production of Bleu Bénédictin started in 2000.

In 2002 and 2006, Bleu Bénédictin won the top Blue Cheese award in the Canadian Cheese Grand Prix.

In 2012, it won a first prize at the The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto, and another at the British Empire Cheese Show. It won another first prize at the British Empire Cheese Show in 2018.

Sources

Riedl, Sue. Bleu Bénédictin and Ermite cheese. Toronto: The Globe and Mail. 9 December 2009.

This page first published: Sep 21, 2010 · Updated: Apr 28, 2022.

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