{"title":"Blue Cheese","description":"\u003cp\u003eEnglish blue cheese, including Stilton from Leicestershire and softer blues from small dairies. Strong, creamy and the right finish to a cheeseboard. Sent chilled with ice packs.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"blacksticks-blue","title":"Butlers Blacksticks Blue Cheese 500g","description":"\u003cp\u003eA creamy, amber-coloured blue cheese from Lancashire, sold here as a whole 500g truckle. Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses, fourth-generation family cheesemakers at Inglewhite in Lancashire, make it by hand: milk from their own herd and neighbouring farms arrives each morning, is pasteurised on site, goes into open vats, and the curd is poured into individual moulds, turned by hand and matured under the eye of their graders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is made with pasteurised cow's milk, microbial rennet and a mould culture, and coloured with annatto, which gives the orange paste and, the maker says, a subtle flavour of its own. They describe it as creamy, smooth, with just enough blue bite to get your tongue tingling: quite mild up front, with an intensity you taste at the back. Suitable for vegetarians.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePut the whole truckle on the board with \u003ca href=\"\/products\/millers-three-fruit-crackers-125g\"\u003eMiller's Three Fruit Crackers\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/rosebud-preserves-quince-jelly\"\u003eRosebud Preserves Quince Jelly\u003c\/a\u003e; the maker pairs it with sweet or sharp flavours for contrast. It melts well, so crumble it over a steak, into a leek and potato soup, or onto a pear and walnut salad, and it is good in a sandwich with \u003ca href=\"\/products\/tracklements-sticky-fig-relish\"\u003eTracklements Sticky Fig Relish\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA whole cheese of about 500g, sent chilled. Contains milk. Ingredients: pasteurised cow's milk, lactic starter culture, microbial rennet, mould culture, salt, annatto colour.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54222307688791,"sku":"CHE-BUT-BLACKSTICKS-500","price":25.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1005\/3917\/1159\/files\/image_a88dfaee-14b6-47ab-8154-103f786f021e.webp?v=1785897273"},{"product_id":"oxford-blue","title":"Oxford Blue Creamy Blue Cheese 350g","description":"\u003cp\u003eOxford Blue is a soft, creamy blue cheese in the Stilton tradition, sold here as a mini of about 350g. The Oxford Cheese Company make it at Burford in Oxfordshire; the company grew out of a cheese shop in Oxford's covered market in 1983, and Robert Pouget created the cheese to give his customers a blue with a creamier consistency than a Stilton.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe supplied ingredient list gives pasteurised cow's milk, salt, lactic culture, microbial rennet and Penicillium roqueforti, so it is suitable for vegetarians. The producer describes it as soft, creamy and aromatic, with tangy and spicy notes that linger and an unexpected hint of white wine and chocolate, and compares the style to Dolcelatte and St Agur but milder. It is aged for 14 to 16 weeks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe producer suggests melting it over a warm steak, crumbling it into a salad, or serving it with fruit or dark chocolate. On a board it wants something sweet beside it: a spoon of \u003ca href=\"\/products\/rosebud-preserves-quince-jelly\"\u003eRosebud Preserves Quince Jelly\u003c\/a\u003e, a few \u003ca href=\"\/products\/peters-yard-original-sourdough-crackers\"\u003ePeter's Yard sourdough crackers\u003c\/a\u003e, and a glass of \u003ca href=\"\/products\/lyme-bay-winery-pinot-noir\"\u003eLyme Bay Pinot Noir\u003c\/a\u003e or a sweet wine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA mini of approximately 350g, wrapped in foil. Keep it in the fridge and take it out an hour before serving so the paste softens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAllergens: milk.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford Cheese Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54222309622103,"sku":"CHE-OXF-OXFORDBLUE-350","price":12.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1005\/3917\/1159\/files\/image_1d036f10-87e1-41da-9116-6318f99cdd37.webp?v=1785897273"},{"product_id":"long-clawson-blue-stilton","title":"Long Clawson Blue Stilton Wedge 220g","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 220g wedge of Blue Stilton from Long Clawson Dairy in the village of Long Clawson, in the Vale of Belvoir in Leicestershire, a co-operative of local dairy farms founded in 1912 where the Stilton is hand-turned and hand-graded. Stilton is a protected name, and Leicestershire is one of the three counties allowed to make it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe dairy describes it as creamy and a touch crumbly, with threads of distinctive savoury blue veining throughout, and calls it a pure expression of the milk from their partner farms. Stilton is not pressed, which is why the paste stays open and soft, and the blue develops after the cheeses are pierced at a few weeks old. Expect a mellow, buttery blue with a salty, savoury finish rather than a sharp one. It is made with vegetarian rennet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTake the wedge out of the fridge an hour before serving. It is the classic cheese for the end of a meal with a glass of port, a few \u003ca href=\"\/products\/millers-three-fruit-crackers-125g\"\u003eMiller's Three Fruit Crackers\u003c\/a\u003e and a spoon of \u003ca href=\"\/products\/rosebud-preserves-quince-jelly\"\u003eRosebud Preserves Quince Jelly\u003c\/a\u003e. It also crumbles well into a salad of pear and walnut, melts into a sauce for steak, or goes into broccoli soup. It belongs on any winter board from \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/for-the-cheeseboard\"\u003eFor the Cheeseboard\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 220g wedge. Keep refrigerated, wrapped in its paper rather than clingfilm, and eat within a week or so of opening.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAllergens: milk.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Long Clawson Dairy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54222309785943,"sku":"CHE-CLA-STILTON-220","price":4.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1005\/3917\/1159\/files\/image_abcbfacb-5283-42d8-91d0-5fcc43c8965f.webp?v=1785881380"}],"url":"https:\/\/madeinengland.com\/collections\/blue-cheese.oembed","provider":"Made In England","version":"1.0","type":"link"}