Hi,
I am in Nottingham UK, only a few miles from the Stilton dairies of Cropwell Bishop and Long Clawson (so I have a lot to live up to with my blue cheeses).
The cheese making bug started about 6 months ago after finding Ricki Carolls book in our local library, I am completely hooked and am currently making one or two 2lb cheeses a week.
I have only just found your fantastic forum, which seems a very friendly, knowledgeable and helpfull resource for us novice cheesemakers.
As a first question, can anyone recommend a book or source of recipes for traditional British cheeses. Lancashire, Sage Derby etc.
Regards, Frank
Welcome Frank!
Congrats on getting the bug! I suspect like many of us you will bulk up over time to making 5-10 lbs per batch as takes same time, just bigger kit.
There's an old book here (https://cheeseforum.org/forum/index.php/topic,606.msg3425.html#msg3425) with some British Cheeses. For current books I would recommend British "Cheese Making and Dairying" by Katie Thear, my edition is 2006 or "Cheese Making Self-Sufficiency" by Rita Ash which has a recipe for Sage Derby and some other British originated cheeses but no Lancashire, I have 2009 edition. I ordered both from Amazon.co.uk (http://www.amazon.co.uk/).
However both those books are skinny and don't give much detail. A bigger book is Canadian "200 Easy Homemade Cheese Recipes (https://cheeseforum.org/forum/index.php/topic,1786.msg13512.html#msg13512)" by Boyes, which has way more recipes but again not much detail.
Beside books, if you Search this Forum (https://cheeseforum.org/forum/index.php/topic,585.0.html) you will find those recipes and probably more detail than those books.
Have fun!
Frank, member DeejayDebi kindly replied to your post with three recipes.
But I believe each of those recipes is worth it's own thread, thus I have just moved them.
- Lancashire Cheese Making Recipe (https://cheeseforum.org/forum/index.php/topic,4739.0.html)
- Sage, Porter, Wine Cheese Making Recipe (https://cheeseforum.org/forum/index.php/topic,4736.0.html)
- Derby Cheese Making Recipe (https://cheeseforum.org/forum/index.php/topic,4738.0.html)
Debi, many thanks!
Hi Frank,
I used to live not far from you in Staffordshire. Nice to meet you
I was just going to say I know I welcomes Frank aboard and don't know what I did wrong so it didn't post. That seems to happen a good bit to me. Must be the thread spliting thing!
Welcome Frank! Those are some of my older recipes using homemade cultures but they work really well.