milk type
Cow
ingredients
Pasteurised Cow's MILK, Salt, Cheese Cultures, Animal Rennet
coagulant
Animal Rennet
milk treatment
Pasteurised
location
Basingstoke, Hampshire
milk source
Bought- in
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milk type
Cow
ingredients
Pasteurised Cow's MILK, Salt, Cheese Cultures, Animal Rennet
coagulant
Animal Rennet
milk treatment
Pasteurised
location
Basingstoke, Hampshire
milk source
Bought- in
season
All year
average age
6 Weeks
cheesemakers
Stacey Hedges; Charlotte Spruce
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Our Work
Tunworth is stored in its waxed paper and wooden box in our cold rooms to ensure an even and controlled breakdown of the paste.
Serving Suggestions
Unwrap the Tunworth, removing the paper, place it back into the box and stuff with a few slivers of garlic and fresh rosemary tips. Bake in the oven for 20 minutes.
Recipes
Mushroom & Tunworth cheese pies
Soft, nutty, camembert-like Tunworth is the star of this dish from Jamie Oliver Its gorgeous truffle flavour goes perfectly with the mushroom. This recipe is for 6 individual pies. Ingredients- 1...Mushroom and Tunworth Risotto
Tunworth is a versatile cheese that can be enjoyed on a cheeseboard, baked or used to enrich recipes such as this one for a mushroom risotto. Connie who makes cheese at Hampshire Cheese Company kin...Tunworth croquettes with mayonnaise dips
Tunworth is a versatile cheese that can be enjoyed on a cheeseboard, baked or used to enrich recipes such as this one for Tunworth croquettes with dipping mayonnaise. Connie who makes cheese at Ham...Summery Ways to Enjoy Your Tunworth
Keep it Classic: There are few finer ways to enjoy Tunworth on a balmy afternoon than simply smeared over a crusty baguette. The perfect romantic picnic for two, you can easily add some finesse by ...FAQs
As a general rule of thumb, we would recommend roughly between 100 and 150 grams per person for after dinner, and a bit more if cheese is the focus of the meal. If you are buying cheese to serve over a couple of days or as part of a buffet, it is advisable to buy a few larger pieces. This will both look better and keep better than many small bits. To help visualise weights, a good tip is to consider that a regular supermarket pat of butter weighs between 200 and 250 grams. If you are at all unsure please give us a call for some advice.
The best option is to keep your cheese wrapped in its paper within a box in the fridge. This will prevent the cheese from drying out and absorbing other flavours. Your cheese will arrive wrapped in waxed cheese paper, which achieves the best possible balance between maintaining humidity around the cheese and allowing it to breathe. We are happy to provide some free extra cheese paper, just search for "cheese paper" and add it to your basket. We don't recommend cling film or foil as it can cause the cheese to sweat which will negatively affect the flavour.
Tunworth
A Camembert-style cheese characterised by truffley, garlicky and vegetal flavours and a creamy and unctuous paste
The traditional Normandy method for making Camembert stipulates that some of the cream be skimmed off before cheesemaking and used to make the butter for which that region of France is famed. No fat is removed prior to making Tunworth, which is why the resulting cheese is particularly rich.
milk type
Cow
ingredients
Pasteurised Cow's MILK, Salt, Cheese Cultures, Animal Rennet
coagulant
Animal Rennet
milk treatment
Pasteurised
location
Basingstoke, Hampshire
milk source
Bought- in
season
All year
average age
6 Weeks
cheesemakers
Stacey Hedges; Charlotte Spruce
background
Made by Stacey Hedges and Charlotte Spruce in Hampshire, this British Camembert is made by hand. Neal's Yard Dairy was heavily involved in the development of the cheese, from travelling with the cheesemakers to visit Camembert producers in Normandy, to experimenting with different maturation techniques at our facility in London.
our work with this cheese
Tunworth is stored in its waxed paper and wooden box in our cold rooms to ensure an even and controlled breakdown of the paste.
pairing suggestion
Unwrap the Tunworth, removing the paper, place it back into the box and stuff with a few slivers of garlic and fresh rosemary tips. Bake in the oven for 20 minutes.