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Caerphilly cheese
Description: Smooth soft cheese made of cow milk. This is a Welsh cheese with a soft, crumbly texture. Wine Partners: Zinfandel. ... more  Caerphilly cheese ... Caerphilly cheese is a hard cheese that originates in the area around the town of Caerphilly in Wales. It was not originally made in the town, but was sold at market there, hence taking the town's name. It is a light-coloured (almost white) crumbly cheese made from cows' milk, and generally has a fat content of around 48%.Newest Review: ... by road and rail to the collier districts, the coastal areas and even as far as Bristol. Sadly by 1910 little Caerphilly ... more ... cheese was being made, for export, because the farmers could no longer compete against cheaper cheeses of England and abroad. Most farmers found it better to export their milk by road and rail and let somebody else do something with it. The Somerset farmers were more than willing to. Their Cheddar took a whole year to ripen; Caerphilly cheese took hardly 2 weeks! This was a much more economical proposition, not daft these Somerset cheese-makers. By the way, one reference to Caerphilly that I found said that the E...more |
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Caerphilly cheese: Caws Caerffili (1462 words)
by 1maryanne - written on 24.03.02 (Very useful, 451 readings)
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Caerphilly cheese is colloquially called 'The Crumblies' and it is the traditional cheese of South and West Wales. I wonder why I wrote the title in Welsh though, considering that most Caerphilly is now made in Somerset. Caerphilly is pronounced kar-FIHL-ee in England. As with many of our 'English' cheeses there is quite a history to this one, a history that I will now share with you, the reader. Our illustrious dooyoo guide asked so prettily that I felt I could do no more than oblige. Caerphilly cheese was first sold in the area around the town of Caerphilly in 1830. (Up until then the main cheese sold had been Somerset Cheddar.) It was first ...
Crumbs! (109 words)
by absynthe - written on 11.10.01 (Useful, 35 readings)
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Probably the thing Caerphilly cheese is best known for is it's overtly crumbly texture. Having said that, it's probably not best for slicing up for sarnies, and it's not wonderful for melting over toast - but Caerphilly is a cheese all on it's own. It has a distinct, cool, mild-yet-tangy flavour which I find wonderful crumbled on an open sandwich with iceberg lettuce, cucumber and slices of pear, topped with freshly ground black pepper. Whenever I think of Caerphilly, I think of pears. Odd. But I love it. It's also great with those overtly fruity German white wines. Yum. ...
Caerphilly cheese: Old socks and warm feet. (217 words)
by Bryn Pearson - written on 05.07.01 (Useful, 40 readings)
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Caerphilly has a very distinctive flavour that you will either love or hate. It's a slightly sour cheese and you may find the taste a bit too much like the smell of hot feet - I quite like it but I can see why plenty of people wouldn't. It was a slightly crumbly texture - it doesn't actually fall apart until you try to eat it. Eating caerphilly. This is not a cheese to cook with - when it melts it gets a quite unpleasant plasticy texture. The flavour is improved by grilling, but the texture is so repulsive that it isn't a good trade off. It is ok disolved into a sauce, but there are plenty of cheese (like stilton) that are much better. ...
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