milk type
Cow
ingredients
MILK, salt, rennet
coagulant
Animal Rennet
milk treatment
Raw
location
Near Goosnargh, Lancashire
milk source
Own herd
breed
Holstein
season
All year
average age
10 months
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Longer matured Lancashire is known locally as "tasty". The maturation of this cheese in our London shops has been a wonderful learning experience for our retail cheesemongers.
our work with this cheese
Accompaniments
Serving Suggestions
Serve chunks of Lancashire with warm Eccles cakes.Recipes
Mushroom & Kirkham's Lancashire Omelette
This delicious recipe by Laura Jackson makes wonderful use of Kirkham's Lancashire.FAQs
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Mature Kirkham's Lancashire
The longer maturation of these cheeses helps to create a more upfront, punchier flavour profile, whilst the texture is slightly drier but just as wonderfully crumbly as in the younger cheeses


Longer matured Lancashire is known locally as "tasty". The maturation of this cheese in our London shops has been a wonderful learning experience for our retail cheesemongers.
milk type
Cow
ingredients
MILK, salt, rennet
coagulant
Animal Rennet
milk treatment
Raw
location
Near Goosnargh, Lancashire
milk source
Own herd
breed
Holstein
season
All year
average age
10 months
our work with this cheese
Mature Kirkham’s Lancashire is aged for approximately nine to twelve months by our Borough Market shop maturing team. The cheeses are selected by our buyers at the farm when they are six weeks old, and then sent down to our shop a few weeks later. At the shop they are turned and gently rubbed down with a damp cloth once a week. It takes the maturing team just over a minute to look after each cheese, allowing them time to evaluate mould growth, moisture loss and any potential anomalies. Of our Territorial cheeses, the mature Lancashire is the most labour-intensive, but the rewards for that hard work are many; a rounded yet significant tang, and a visible crumble that belies a rewarding succulence when chewed.
pairing suggestion
Serve chunks of Lancashire with warm Eccles cakes.