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Blue Vinney

Description: A good blue Vinny is quite a hard, crumbly cheese; paler, with lighter, finer veins than a Stilton, it is also drier ... more

Blue Vinney ... and tighter with a rounded sharpness and a positive taste of blue.

Newest Review: ... closed down if their whereabouts was known. Another printable Dorset rural myth says that as the rind of a traditional Blue ... more

... Vinney gets very hard with age, a train once ran on Blue Vinneys instead of wheels! The Real Blue Vinney ******************** The word 'Vinney' comes from ‘vinew’ an old English word which meant mould, and yet another source tells me that “The word Vinney comes from the Old English ‘fyne’ meaning mould" and another informs me that “Vinney is an old English word for ‘veining’” I won’t argue with any of them! When there were hundreds of small fa...more

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Dorset Blue Vinney with Knobs On (1499 words)
by lamorna - written on 27.11.01 (Very useful, 318 readings)
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Regional Cheeses **************** Long before the days where promoting regional food and encouraging the growing, buying, cooking and eating of organic meat and vegetables were foremost, these were our aims and business policy in our successful West Dorset restaurant. Fish and shellfish from the local trawler man, seasonal fruits and vegetables from the neighbouring allotment growers and orchards, meat from bordering farms, eggs from the poultry farm and rich milk and cream from local milking herds. Local cheeses included a prize winning cheddar, a soft goats cheese and a hard ewe’s cheese all produced by dedicated independent cheese makers on their farms ...

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