Cheese and Eggs

Cheese and eggs are two very basic foods that have been with us for thousands of years. When primitive man settled down, one of his first tasks was to domesticate animals for food use. Among them were the ancestors of today’s cows, sheep, goats and chickens, producing milk and eggs that became major foods. The milk would probably have soured fairly quickly, so much of it would have been ‘eaten’ as curds and whey – and this is how the idea for making cheese from soured milk was born.

Collops, or slices, of bacon with a cooked new-laid egg would have been a rare and special meal – a combination that still lives with us now as part of our Great British Breakfast.