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Wensleydale with Cranberries

Wensleydale with Cranberries
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  • Made from pasteurized or unpasteurized cow's or sheep's milk

  • Country of origin: United Kingdom

  • Region: North Yorkshire

  • Type: fresh firm

  • Texture: firm

  • Rind: natural

  • Colour: pale yellow

  • Flavour: creamy, sweet

  • Vegetarian: yes

  • Synonyms: Wensleydale , cranberry wensleydale

Wensleydale is a historic fresh, mild cheese made in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire since 1150 by Cistercian monks. These monks continued to make the cheese until the dissolution of their monasteries in 1540. Traditionally, sheep's milk was used, but over the time cow's milk was also used. The art of making the cheese was passed by the monks to the farmer's wives who produced a blue variety of Wensleydale at their farmhouses. Today, Wensleydale is produced mainly from pasteurised cow's milk with sheep's milk added to enhance the flavour. Wensleydale Creamery in the town of Hawes is seeking to protect the name Yorkshire Wensleydale Cheese under PDO designation. But there are other producers of Wensleydale cheese in parts of the UK, mainly in Shropshire and Cheshire.

Wensleydale with Cranberries is a hand-made Yorkshire cheese that is sold fresh & young at only three weeks old. The cheese has a sweet flavour of the fruity succulence of juicy cranberries with honeyed undertones.

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