What is Lancashire Cheese and How it Gets Its Name

Lancashire is proud for a number of reasons starting from great people to mingle with, good places to pay visits to and most of all, good food to enjoy. The city is famous for its food that has been locally invented by the people of Lancashire. Eating is a favourite hobby of the locals here but do not assume that they eat anything. Food is chosen more for taste than appetite in this part of the country; as a result, numerous recipes have come out of this city. One of the most famous recipes dished out from here is the Lancashire Hotpot which has won hearts of many chefs all over the world. As this is a local dish, you may find several hotpot restaurants in the streets of the city. If there is another food item that can be observed in nearly every nook and corner of the city, it is the Lancashire cheese.

Lancashire cheese is famous for its unique taste that makes a person wanting for more. They are very tasty and very popular too. There are majorly 3 types of cheese that fall into the category of Lancashire cheese. They are the Creamy Lancashire cheese, the Tasty Lancashire cheese and the Crumbly Lancashire cheese.

Before we start talking on these three kinds of cheeses, we need to know the secret behind the name: what does it have to do with Lancashire that it has its name clung to the county so much? This is because this type of cheese was first derived from the milk of English cows that belonged to Lancashire. The sub-types of this cheese were developed by modifying the time of maturity of the cheese.

Creamy Lancashire is the oldest and most dominant type of cheese in the market that is made using traditional techniques. This fluffy cheese has a creamy flavour and is enjoyed usually by toasting it as it does not get stringy upon heating. The milk that is curdled for making cheese is kept for weeks ranging from 1 month to 3 months. Curds that mature at different times are mixed together to create a unique tasting cheese.

The second type of cheese is the tasty Lancashire cheese that is kept for maturity for more than 3 months for up to a time period of 2 years. The taste of this ‘tasty’ cheese is nutty and is a delicacy in this part of the county. The fondness for this cheese that the people of this county have may be the reason for the name of the cheese to be tasty.

The third type of cheese is the crumbly Lancashire cheese which has a commercial advantage tag attached to it. This cheese is simpler to make as it involves milk from the same day only, unlike creamy Lancashire or the tasty one where curd of different days were mixed together. This cheese is the only cheese that has the name of the county attached to its name but is produced outside the county. The maturity time here is also less that is one to two months.

In the midst of such piquant cheeses, there were certain cheeses that were less popular and failed to catch the consumer’s fancy. For instance, Leigh cheese was stopped and gradually the cheese worn out. The Lancashire bomb is a ball that has Tasty cheese in it and the ball is coated with black wax. There a lot of varieties that you may find here but nevertheless, all cheese produced in this county have taste like no other cheese or its product. Certainly this gives an idea of how well versed the local people are with food when it comes to eating out in Lancashire. Don’t miss out any of their amazing cuisines next time if you plan to go to Lancashire.

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