Wensleydale Creamery

Crikey, you lot will read bloody anything... SLIGHTLY LIGHT HEARTED OPINION ON WENSLEYDALE WITH CRANBERRIES FOLLOWS - NOT MEANT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY.... REAL OP ON WENSLEYDALE CREAMERY AT THE BOTTOM... "Pardon me boys, but was that the crap cheese you chew chewed?" For the faint hearted or queasy stomached amongst you, a bit of advice .... STOP READING NOW!!! Can you believe anything more likely to impact negatively on your ability to keep food down where it belongs than a slab of cheese which has been destroyed by sticking unpleasant stuff in it? Cottage cheese with pineapples, chives, ...  Read the complete review

In 1150 a monastery was built at Fors, four miles from Hawes, but some years later the monks moved, because of hostile natives to Jervaulx in Lower Wensleydale. These French Cistercian monks brought with them their special recipe for the making of cheese, which continued to be produced at Jervaulx until the dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th century. From that time the art of cheese making which the monks had developed was passed to local farmers' wives who, for more than three hundred years, produced the cheese in their own farmhouses. In 1897 Mr Edward Chapman, a corn and provisions merchant of Hawes, began to purchase milk from surrounding ...  Read the complete review