Ingredient: Gloucester cheese
Category: Dairy- Cheese
Season: All
Gloucester cheese
Gloucester is situated in the county of Gloucestershire in South West England, just below the South Wales border.
It was born in 60 AD and soon became a city of tradition and culture.
Gloucester still holds on to its roots with much of the surrounding countryside remaining untouched by modern developments.
Rolling green hills spread across the whole county housing a number of 17th century farms and villages which still boast ancient features and traditional values that live on through the generations.
It is these traditions, cultures and values that have enabled the city of Gloucester to preserve such a loved and favoured cheese, not only within the Gloucestershire county, but also throughout the world.
Every year locals get together at Coopers Hill and race large, round Double Gloucesters down the hill.
This tradition stretches back to the 18th Century, when locals rolled Gloucester cheeses down the hill, chased and tried to catch them as a sign of masculinity, after which they would cut it up and serve it for supper.
Today the tradition lives on as does the traditional making of the cheese, which benefits greatly from the enthusiastic, if not a little eccentric devotees to this wonderful smooth buttery cheese . |