Cotherstone
milk type
Cow
ingredients
Pasteurised Cow's MILK, Salt, Cheese Cultures, Vegetarian Coagulant
coagulant
Vegetarian Coagulant
milk treatment
Pasteurised
location
Co. Durham
milk source
Bought in
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milk type
Cow
ingredients
Pasteurised Cow's MILK, Salt, Cheese Cultures, Vegetarian Coagulant
coagulant
Vegetarian Coagulant
milk treatment
Pasteurised
location
Co. Durham
milk source
Bought in
season
All Year
average age
6 weeks
cheesemakers
Joan Cross
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Background
Cotherstone is a cheese that has long been a part of the Neal's Yard Dairy line up, and has been made by Joan Cross for more than 30 years, using a family recipe. It’s a dales-style cheese, like We...
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Cotherstone is a cheese that has long been a part of the Neal's Yard Dairy line up, and has been made by Joan Cross for more than 30 years, using a family recipe. It’s a dales-style cheese, like Wensleydale or Swaledale, which would have been made for centuries on smallholdings in the Yorkshire Dales. Joan is one of a very few remaining small producers who has been making continuously for a long time. The cheese was made with raw milk from the Cross family herd until the mid-1990s and is now bought in from local sources and pasteurised. Cotherstone is a rare and characterful cheese, which can vary batch to batch.
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Our Work
Cotherstone is salted the day after its arrival at the Arches to draw out excess moisture and to help form a firmer rind. It is then kept in one of the colder maturing rooms and turned several time...
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Cotherstone is salted the day after its arrival at the Arches to draw out excess moisture and to help form a firmer rind. It is then kept in one of the colder maturing rooms and turned several times a week for a month. Once the rind has the desired condition it is wrapped and put into the cold room to stabilise and break down further in texture and deepen its flavour.
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Cotherstone
Cotherstone is a varied cheese that can range from fresh, flaky and acidic to smooth and custardy
milk type
Cow
ingredients
Pasteurised Cow's MILK, Salt, Cheese Cultures, Vegetarian Coagulant
coagulant
Vegetarian Coagulant
milk treatment
Pasteurised
location
Co. Durham
milk source
Bought in
season
All Year
average age
6 weeks
cheesemakers
Joan Cross
background
Cotherstone is a cheese that has long been a part of the Neal's Yard Dairy line up, and has been made by Joan Cross for more than 30 years, using a family recipe. It’s a dales-style cheese, like Wensleydale or Swaledale, which would have been made for centuries on smallholdings in the Yorkshire Dales. Joan is one of a very few remaining small producers who has been making continuously for a long time. The cheese was made with raw milk from the Cross family herd until the mid-1990s and is now bought in from local sources and pasteurised. Cotherstone is a rare and characterful cheese, which can vary batch to batch.
our work with this cheese
Cotherstone is salted the day after its arrival at the Arches to draw out excess moisture and to help form a firmer rind. It is then kept in one of the colder maturing rooms and turned several times a week for a month. Once the rind has the desired condition it is wrapped and put into the cold room to stabilise and break down further in texture and deepen its flavour.
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