Single Gloucester (Churcham, Gloucester)

Diana Smart started making cheese in her sixties and wanted to keep to a very traditional recipe using milk from her Gloucester cows, although the paucity of female cows in her herd has meant that she has had to supplement milk from Holsteins for her cheeses other than the Single Gloucester. She first made the cheese in her kitchen, lining the moulds with cut down old sheets that she had boiled first to sterilize. The cheese has a deliciously light texture with a savoury, nutty flavour, which I prefer to eat on the young side.