Okay I think you are ready for this BlueSky. Let's talk cheese history.
More specifically, Yorkshire Dales cheeses, and how WW2 and rationing almost wiped out cheesemaking in northern Britain.
This is the story of the near-death of the world of one of the world's great cheeses: Wensleydale. /1 🧵
More specifically, Yorkshire Dales cheeses, and how WW2 and rationing almost wiped out cheesemaking in northern Britain.
This is the story of the near-death of the world of one of the world's great cheeses: Wensleydale. /1 🧵
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Wallace is not a cartoon character.
He has a name.
Does Tenor have a single properly described GIF?
It wasn't great and didn't really offer anything better to consumers than cheddar.
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foda
(Dunno how true that is or isn’t.)
Britain does not exist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnXRPr0AVTI
I'm from rural Cheshire where cheese and butter making after WWII were widespread.
Wonderful thread. A fine story well-told. 💯 🧀
I'm off to see if ordering hand made cheese on-line is affordable...
https://www.paxtonandwhitfield.co.uk
Paxton & Whitfield (like Courtyard) are one of the places that has fought so hard to keep British cheese variety alive.
And due to climate and local cattle and sheep farming, Yorkshire Dales, produce some of the finest cheeses in the world. /2
Monasteries, from the 12th century onwards, became the major producers of cheeses and (more specifically) Dales cheeses. /3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wensleydale_cheese?wprov=sfti1
I put 'official' in capitals because I wanted to highlight that this is legit government text. Even though it is clearly written by someone who is being VERY cheese-horny on main. /4
Can’t get the real deal in Ireland, though. Nobody exports it.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5fd369ebd3bf7f305b09eacd/pfn-yorks-wensleydale-cheese-pgi.pdf
The first came when Henry VIII, gods own Brexiteer, dissolved the monasteries, the key centres of cheesemaking.
Production was forced to shift to individual farms, with recipes shared by pensioned monks. /5
Whatever British cheese you love, chances are its recipe was preserved and refined by generations of women. /6
But this ALSO provided the chance for creameries to become viable.
In 1897, Wensleydale Creamery was founded to bring Dales cheeses to the rest of the country /7
Would also recommend the Curlew Dairy in Wensley
Sadly my parents one is nothing like as grand
Seems to be becoming fashionable too