Gloucester Cheese is made in two versions: Double Gloucester, made from whole milk, is available in most supermarkets, while Single Gloucester, made from skim milk, is quite rare and expensive.
British Cheeses
Government Cheddar Cheese
During World War Two, the UK government ordered most cheese factories to standardize on making cheddar in order to most efficiently meet wartime demands. This came to be known informally as “government cheddar.”
Harbourne Blue Cheese
Harbourne Blue Cheese is made in Totnes, Devon, England, from pasteurized goat’s milk. It is almost white with greyish-green veins, and is firm and crumbly. The rind is moist. It generally has a mild taste with a bit of a tang in it, but “it is quite variable in taste and texture depending on the…
Katy’s White Lavender Cheese
Katy’s White Lavender Cheese is a feta-style cheese made from sheep’s milk. It has lavender flowers in it to flavour it.
Lancashire Cheese
Lancashire Cheese is a white, firm but crumbly cheese with a tang to it. It may be sold young, or aged.
Lincolnshire Poacher Cheese
Lincolnshire Poacher is a long-aged cheddar cheese whose taste combines sweetness with a touch of bitterness. It is pale yellow inside, with a brownish rind.
Lord of The Hundreds Cheese
Lord of The Hundreds is a hard, dry, crumbly cheese made from raw milk from sheep. It has a smooth, mild taste.
Lymeswold Cheese
Lymeswold is a modern but now defunct cheese. Designed by committee and promoted lavishly by the British Milk Marketing Board, it still just refused to move off the shelves.
Mrs Bells Blue Cheese
Mrs Bells is a creamy, smooth cheese with blue veins dotted through it. It is less salty than many other blue cheeses. Sheep’s milk from local flocks of sheep, curdled with vegetarian rennet, is used to make the cheese. The cheese is aged 10 to 12 weeks. The cheese is made by Shepherd’s Purse Cheeses…
Oxford Blue Cheese
Oxford Blue is a soft, creamy blue cheese that has a mild but salty taste with a bit of sharpness. It is made from pasteurized cow’s milk in Oxfordshire, England.
Oxford Isis Cheese
Oxford Isis Cheese has a soft, pale yellow creamy inside and a soft, slightly-darker rind on the outside. It has a strong tangy taste and smell. During aging, the rind is sprayed with mead.
Pantysgawn Cheese
Pantysgawn Cheese is a soft, creamy cheese made in Wales from pasteurized goat’s milk. It has a salty taste with a bit of sourness that reminds some people of lemon. A fresh cheese, it is sold in a cylindrical shaped roll, with no rind or crust.
Red Dragon Cheese
Red Dragon (aka Y-Fenni) is a Welsh white cheddar cheese. It has a creamy, buttery cheddar taste, combined with a tang from the brown ale and a bit of piquancy from whole mustard seed mixed into it.
Red Leicester Cheese
Red Leicester cheese is a crumblier version of cheddar cheese. It is made from cow’s milk coloured with annatto, and typically aged anywhere from 4 to 9 months.
Shropshire Blue
Shropshire Blue is an English orange cheese with veins of greenish-blue mould growing in it. It tastes somewhat like a cheddar with the tang of a blue cheese. It is somewhat milder and sweeter than Stilton.
Stilton
Stilton is an English blue cheese whose powerful, pungent taste is stronger than Roquefort and Gorgonzola. Its texture is both crumbly and creamy.
Stinking Bishop Cheese
Stinking Bishop Cheese smells like old socks, but most of the smell is in the orangish-yellow, sticky rind. The cheese itself is mild, soft and creamy.
The Crumblies
The Crumblies is an expression used in Britain to describe crumbly British cheeses such as Caerphilly, Cheshire, Lancashire, Wensleydale and Lancashire. Cooking Tips These cheeses are loved for the ease with which they melt into a creamy goo when cooked.
Troo Bloo You Cheese
Troo Bloo You is an English blue cheese made from sheep’s milk. It is firm but moist. The milk is curdled with vegetarian rennet. The mould culture used is penicillium roqueforti, but the maker uses a mixture of different strains of this mould. At 2 months old, the cheese is mild and sweet. At 8…
Truckle
When used in relation to food, a truckle is generally a whole cylinder of cheese as sold by the cheesemaker, though it can also be a wheel. In North America, people are more inclined to just say a “wheel” of cheese, even if it’s a cylinder. Language Notes A truckle, generally, is a small wheel…
Wensleydale Cheese
Wensleydale cheese is a white, moist, crumbly cheese. It has a clean tang behind its mild taste. It may be made from cow’s milk, sheep’s milk, or a blend of both. The more sheep’s milk, the whiter the cheese will be.
Wensleydale Cheese with Cranberries
Wensleydale with Cranberries © Denzil Green Wensleydale Cheese with Cranberries is Wensleydale Cheese, made with pasteurized cow’s milk, with cranberries folded into the cheese. It is a fresh cheese with a fresh, clean taste, with the tartness of the cranberries helping the cheese to act as a foil alongside overly rich servings of mince tarts…
White Cheddar
White-cheddar is cheddar cheese that has not been coloured orange. It can come in all the ranges, flavours and varying qualities that orange cheddar can.
Windsor Red Cheese
Windsor Red Cheese starts off as a cheddar-like cheese made from pasteurized cow’s milk. Depending on the maker, a Vegetarian Rennet may be used. Most of the cheese is coloured and flavoured either with a wine such as Bordeaux or Elderberry, or with blended Port and Brandy. The remaining uncoloured cheddar, which is pale, is…