Norbury Blue

Norbury Blue is an English blue cheese made on Norbury Park farm, situated within Norbury Park, Surrey. It is entirely handmade and the only blue cheese made in the South of England with milk from a closed herd of Friesian cows, fed on GM-free fodder.^[1]

Preparation

The cheese is made with vegetarian rennet and unpasteurised cows' milk. A Roquefort type culture P. roqueforti is used to create the blue marbled effect. It is left to mature at around 12–14 °C (54–57 °F) for three weeks, giving the blue mould time to grow. It is completely natural and contains no artificial colourings.

Composition

Norbury Blue has a moist, creamy texture with a pleasantly musty aroma. It is tangy like Roquefort with the creaminess of rich Brie. The blue veins have a smoky, earthy flavour. Norbury Blue cheese has a dark, bark-like rind and a delicately marbled, white interior.

References

↑ "Norbury Blue Background". Retrieved 2008-09-23.

External links

Norbury Park Farm blue cheese website

British cheeses

England	Applewood Beacon Fell Traditional Lancashire Beenleigh Blue Bowland Buxton Blue Cheddar Cheshire Chevington Coquetdale Cornish Blue Cornish Brie Cornish Yarg Derby Dorset Blue Vinney Dovedale Fine Fettle Yorkshire Five Counties Gevrik Gloucester Harbourne Blue Keltic Gold Lancashire Lincolnshire Poacher Little Derby Newport 1665 Norbury Blue Red Leicester Red Windsor Sage Derby Shropshire Blue Stichelton Stilton Stinking Bishop Suffolk Gold Sussex Slipcote Swaledale Tesyn Waterloo Wensleydale Wrekin White

Scotland	Bonchester Caboc Crowdie Dunlop Isle of Mull Cheddar Lanark Blue

Wales	Caerphilly Pantysgawn Tintern Y Fenni

Northern Ireland	Coleraine Cheddar

Manufacturers & brands	Carmarthenshire Cheese Company Cathedral City Coleraine Davidstow Cheddar Ilchester Cheese Company Neal's Yard Dairy Pilgrims Choice Yeo Valley Organic

See also	List of English cheeses

Blue cheeses

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