Appleby’s Double Gloucester
£5.89 – £65.00
Radiant orangey yellow in colour, Appleby’s traditional cloth bound farmhouse Double Gloucester is succulent with mellow butter notes, nuts and tangy fruity finish.
Producer
Appleby's Dairy
Region
Cheshire
Allergens
Milk
Style
Hard
Milk Type
Cow
Vegetarian
No
Pasteurized
No
Best accompanied by
Pinot Nero White `Sillery` Frecciarossa
Try serving with
Clare's Sweet Pickled Cucumber
Cooking Tip
Lovely in a souffle with ale and Double Gloucester sauce or in a broccoli cream soup served from a crusty bread bowl.
From Hawkstone Abbey Farm in Cheshire, the Appleby family have been making cheese for three generations. Their Double Gloucester comes from a three hundred year old recipe which the Applebys resurrected in 1986. They researched the making of Double Gloucester using the original recipe book from when Lucy Appleby MBE, Edward’s mother, learnt her craft of cheese making at college. After years of experimenting, they eventually settled on a recipe they found in the archives of the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food, and this recipe continues to be used today. Double Gloucester has a history dating back over three hundred years and is believed to be the UK's first coloured cheese, when farms used to use carrots and beets to dye the cheese. Now the colour is achieved with annatto derived from the seeds of the achiote tree. The cheese has a lovely fruity mellow ease to it, with a nutty finish and tangy bite, the ageing room revealing itself in the rind.
Upon completion of your order, you will be asked to select a delivery date. We will always work to deliver to you on your date chosen but sometimes delays may occur. We will contact you if a change to the delivery date is required. At check-out, your delivery charge will be calculated.
All our products are packed in Cheese Cuisine boxes (unless you have ordered a giftbox or added a hamper to your order) with filling (bubble wrap where needed) and gel ice packs when required, to preserve the quality of fresh products.
Your cheese will arrive wrapped in speciality cheese paper and we recommend you refrigerate it as soon as it arrives. We recommend using your cheese within five days of purchase, however, many cheeses will last far longer. To serve, take your cheese out of the fridge, unwrap, and let it come to room temperature before serving (about an hour). To see more about taking care of cheese click here.
Wherever possible, we use environmentally friendly packaging, including recycled and compostable material. We are not big on paper waste; all the information on our products can be found on our website. However, if your order is a gift, select the option at check-out to include a personal message on a gift card with information letting the recipient know how they can find out about their products on our website.
The dairy and farm are part of the rhythm of family life at Hawkstone Abbey Farm. The farm has undergone a conversion towards a more regenerative and sustainable way of farming. Each cloth bound cheese encapsulates a moment in time – the soil, the traditional grass pastures, the gentle cows, the weather, the season. The fresh, raw milk is the master ingredient, to which they add traditional cultures, rennet, salt from the Cheshire Plains and the extract of the annatto seed, which gives their coloured Cheshire its warm sunrise colour. These time capsules are matured in old barns with Napoleonic timbers. The provenance and flora of their natural surroundings give their Appleby’s cheeses a flavour that is totally unique.
