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Wensleydale cheese is a cheese produced in the town of Hawes in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, England. There are two types, both of which are suitable for vegetarians: Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the United Kingdom (light green), with the Republic of Ireland (blue) to its west Languages English Capital London Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population –mid-2004...
Wensleydale is a dale, or valley, of the east side of the Pennines in the North Riding of Yorkshire, in England. ...
Bolton Abbey North Yorkshire is a Shire county within the region of Yorkshire and the Humber in England. ...
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Cheese is a solid food made from the curdled milk of cows, goats, sheep, water buffalo or other mammals. ...
Hawes is a small market town in the Yorkshire Dales. ...
Wensleydale is a dale, or valley, of the east side of the Pennines in the North Riding of Yorkshire, in England. ...
Bolton Abbey North Yorkshire is a Shire county within the region of Yorkshire and the Humber in England. ...
Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the United Kingdom (light green), with the Republic of Ireland (blue) to its west Languages English Capital London Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population –mid-2004...
For animals adapted to eat primarily plants, sometimes referred to as vegetarian animals, see Herbivore. ...
- White Wensleydale is usually shaped into a flat disc that is highly pressed, and has a honey flavour to it. In the north-east of England it is often consumed with fruit cake or Christmas cake.[1]
- Blue Wensleydale has blue veins and is produced in large drums
Christmas Cake is a type of fruitcake served at Christmastime in the U.K., Ireland and many Commonwealth countries. ...
Blue cheese is a generic type of cheese in which veins of Penicillium mold run through the crumbly texture. ...
Flavour and texture
The Wensleydale pastures give the cheese the unique flavour for which it is renowned. Good Wensleydale has a supple, crumbly, moist texture and resembles a young Caerphilly. The flavour suggests wild honey balanced with a fresh acidity. Country of origin Wales Region, town Caerphilly Source of milk Cows Pasteurized unknown Texture hard crumbly Aging time unknown Certification unknown Caerphilly cheese is a hard cheese that originates in the area around the town of Caerphilly in Wales. ...
History Wensleydale cheese was first made by French Cistercian monks from the Roquefort region settled in Wensleydale. They built a monastery at Fors, but some years later the monks moved to Jervaulx in Lower Wensleydale. They brought with them a recipe for making cheese from ewe's milk. During the 1300s cow's milk began to be used instead of ewe's and the character of the cheese began to change. A little ewes' milk was still mixed in since it gave a more open texture and allowed the development of the blue mould. At that time, Wensleydale was almost always blue with the white 'un-blue' variety almost unknown. Nowadays, the opposite is true, with blue Wensleydale rarely seen. When the monastery was dissolved in 1540 the local farmers continued making the cheese right up until the Second World War, during which most milk in the country was used for the making of 'Government Cheddar'. Even after rationing ceased in 1954, cheese making did not return to pre-war levels. Cistercians (OCist) (Latin Cistercenses), otherwise Gimey or White Monks (from the colour of the habit, over which is worn a black Catholic order of monks. ...
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Jervaulx Abbey was one of the great Cistercian abbeys of Yorkshire, founded in 1156. ...
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Moldy cream cheese Molds (British English: moulds) are various fungi that cover surfaces as fluffy mycelium and usually produce masses of asexual, sometimes sexual spores. ...
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Dairy Crest and the Management Buy Out In May 1992 Dairy Crest, a subsidiary of the Milk Marketing Board, closed the Hawes creamery, the only one in the dale, and transferred production of Wensleydale cheese to Yorkshire's traditional rival, Lancashire. Dairy Crest is a major dairy products company in the United Kingdom. ...
Hawes is a small market town in the Yorkshire Dales. ...
A Creamery is an establishment where dairy products are prepared or sold. ...
Lancashire is a county and duchy palatine in the North of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. ...
The ex-managers took up the fight and, against the odds, eventually persuaded the owners to sell the creamery to them. A management buy-out was agreed in November 1992.
Wallace and Gromit In the 1990s, sales had fallen so low that production was at risk of being suspended. Fortunately, inspiration struck when the popular Wallace and Gromit short, A Close Shave, had Wallace mention Wensleydale as being a particularly favorite cheese. Wensleydale was also mentioned in their Academy Award-nominated first short A Grand Day Out. Animator Nick Park chose it solely because it had a good name that would be interesting to animate, unaware of the financial difficulties. The company contacted Aardman Animations about a licence for a special brand of "Wallace and Gromit Wensleydale," which proved to be an enormous success. Wallace & Gromit Wallace and Gromit are the main characters in a series of three British animated short films and a feature-length film by Nick Park of Aardman Animations. ...
Wallace and Gromit on their way to wash windows A Close Shave is a 1995 animated film directed by Nick Park at Aardman Animations in Bristol, featuring his characters Wallace and Gromit. ...
A Grand Day Out is a 1989 animated film directed and animated by Nick Park at Aardman Animations in Bristol, featuring his characters Wallace and Gromit. ...
Nicholas Wulstan Park, CBE (b. ...
Aardman Animations, Ltd. ...
The owner of Monty Python's Cheese Shop is called Henry Wensleydale (played by Michael Palin), who ironically has no Wensleydale cheese - or any other varieties - for sale. Popular culture, or pop culture, is the vernacular (peoples) culture that prevails in a modern society. ...
Monty Pythons Flying Circus (also known as Flying Circus, MPFC or just Monty Python during the fourth season) was a popular, surreal BBC sketch comedy show from Monty Python, and the groups initial claim to fame. ...
The Cheese Shop sketch is a famous sketch from Monty Pythons Flying Circus. ...
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Blue Stilton cheese. ...
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