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Here's something different: this one uses both cow and sheeps' milk, then adds cream for good measure. It's yet another offering from the fabulously productive and inventive team at Menallack Farm. The plain version is Mrs Finn's, whilst Treverva Green is coated with crushed green peppercorns. The texture is similar to Nanterrow, but with a fuller, stronger taste.
At a recent Cheese Shed 'research' session Gill, Deb and I worked through a box of samples sent up from Menallack (it's a tough job but someone has to do it) and and we got particularly excited about these.
And now that I've got your attention, there's one more version, Heligan, which is flavoured with lemon zest ...
Unpasteurised, vegetarian, 270g
More about Menallack Farm and its cheeses
John was a telecom engineer who lived all over (La Paz, the Yemen ...) before retiring to Cornwall with his wife Caryl in the 1980s. Inspired by a cheesmaker they'd met in Wales, Caryl started making cheese at Menallack, originally using milk from their own herd. At that time there were only three cheesemakers in Cornwall! Until her death in 2007, Caryl was the driving force at Menallack, and became an inpsiration to others wanting to tread a similar path.
Today Menallack is run by John with the help of right-hand-woman Jess (though he'd put it the other way around!). When you arrive at the farm there's a shop to your left, the cheese room itself to the right, and in the middle is the generous granite farmhouse. All in all seven people work here turning out - wait for it - sixteen different cheeses. That's the amazing thing! Unlike other makers who concentrate on one type of cheese, perhaps with a couple of variations, Menallack make hard cheese, soft cheese, blue cheese, flavoured cheeses, and use every sort of milk you can think of. Alright, not beaver. But everything else! |
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