Ingredient: Leicester cheese (Leicester Red cheese)
Category: Dairy- Cheese
Season: All
Leicester cheese
Leicester is situated in central England , near the city of Nottingham.
The county is a wash with idyllic country scenes , which almost always feature the stone, built dairy farms, which produce the unique milk used to make the famous Red Leicester cheese.
Over the years the Leicester farmers have passed down the traditional recipe and making process of this great regional cheese to a new breed of passionate cheese makers.
It is through these time-honoured traditions that the sensational taste of this old age cheese stays alive.
Red Leicester is famous for making perfect Welsh rarebit due to its exceptional melting qualities.
Before the Second World War it was known as just ‘Leicester’ even though it was made with the colouring annatto.
It wasn’t until the end of the war that the cheese was reintroduced to the British food market.
It was renamed ‘Red Leicester’ to give it some difference.
This Leicester born cheese delivers a complex range of flavours accompanied by soft nutty notes |