Hello from Stilton country, UK

[banjofrank]

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

[Cheese Head]

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 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.

However both those books are skinny and don't give much detail. A bigger book is Canadian "200 Easy Homemade Cheese Recipes" by Boyes, which has way more recipes but again not much detail.

Beside books, if you Search this Forum you will find those recipes and probably more detail than those books.

Have fun!

[Webmaster]

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
• Sage, Porter, Wine Cheese Making Recipe
• Derby Cheese Making Recipe

Debi, many thanks!

[kenjin]

Hi Frank,

I used to live not far from you in Staffordshire. Nice to meet you

[DeejayDebi]

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.