Cotherstone cheese is a semi-hard cheese with a sharp, slightly tangy taste. It is sold covered with yellow wax. Inside, the cheese has an “open” texture.
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Fountains Gold Cheese
Fountains Gold Cheese is a semi-firm cheddar made from Jersey and Guernsey cow’s milk. It is a smooth, creamy, full-flavoured cheese and is sold both waxed and unwaxed.
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.
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…
Parkin Cake
Parkin is a soft, ginger-flavoured egg-less cake based on ginger, oatmeal and black treacle. It is moist, sometimes even sticky. It is usually baked in a rectangular cake pan, and cut into squares to serve. It’s associated with both Yorkshire and Lancashire in England, but particularly Yorkshire. In Yorkshire, you can get it in stores…