Cheese

A fine English cheese for September is Appleby Farmhouse Cheshire, available at many specialist food shops. It is the only Cheshire still to be made in the traditional way from unpasteurised milk. The whole cheeses – from the 2¾ lb truckles to the largest 56 lb wheels – are then cloth-bound to allow steady maturation, rather than coated in wax, as is now more common, which at least partially arrests this process. Mrs Appleby says that the cheese should not be eaten before it is six to eight weeks old. The farm also produces an excellent Double Gloucester.