Factfile
Did You Know
- Cheshire Cheese is the UK's biggest selling crumbly cheese with sales of around 6500 tonnes per year
- Cheshire cheese typically has between one third and one half of the salt content of Feta
- Appleby’s remain the last Cheshire cheese makers to use a traditional recipe, open vats and to calico bind their cheese.
- Coloured Cheshire is dyed using the natural vegetable extract Annatto – the same vegetable dye as used in Red Leicester
- Cheshire is considered to be the oldest British cheese, it is mentioned in the Domesday Book (1086) and probably dates back even further to Roman times
- In the 1920's there were approximately 1200 farms producing farmhouse Cheshire cheese. Today Appleby’s of Hawkstone is the last hand-made, cloth bound Cheshire to survive.
Extra Facts!
- Salt inhibits the growth of undesirable bacteria
- Diet cheese is bone friendly – one of the best sources of calcium, helping to prevent osteoporosis.
- Convenience cheese is convenient, versatile and easy to use
- British Cheese is enjoyed by over 98% of British households
- Europeans BUT we eat only half of the quantity of other European countries
- Vegetarian Appleby’s cheese is suitable for vegetarians
- GMT means Good Manufacturing Practice
