British Cheeses Trivia Quiz

Answer: Red Leicester

Red Leicester is a mellow cheese. The colour can vary from light orange, to quite a dark shade. The lighter ones tend to be mass produced, and do not have the true flavour and texture of the 'farmhouse' cheese. It melts well and can be used with good effect in Welsh Rarebit.

Answer: Y Fenni

Y Fenni is named after the town of Abergavenny, Y Fenni in Welsh. Tyndyrn is the Welsh name for Tintern, a green wax covered cheese made with shallots and chives. It takes it's name from Tintern Abbey where the resident monks grew shallots. Caerffili, or Caerphilly is probably the best known Welsh cheese.

It is a hard cheese with a crumbly texture. Perl Wen is a soft white cheese that was first developed in 2000.

Answer: Crowdie

Crowdie is a Scottish cream cheese often eaten with oatcakes. The reason for eating it before a ceilidh is that it is said to lessen the effects of drinking too much whisky. Let me know if you try it!

Answer: Stinking Bishop

Stinking Bishop takes its name from a local pear variety which is used to make the perry. The cheese is also washed with the juice of the pears. It is a very aptly named cheese.

Answer: Cornish Yarg

Made only at Netherton Farm Yarg has only been in production since 1983. The name comes from Allen and Jenny Gray who supplied the recipe. Yarg is simply Gray spelled backwards.

Answer: Inverloch

Inverloch has been produced on the Isle of Gigha since 1985. It is sold covered in a red wax. You can also buy Inverloch cheese in the shape of various fruits.

Answer: True

Fine fettle is produced in Yorkshire, where else could it come from? It used to be called Yorkshire Feta, but the name was changed following an EU ruling that Feta could only be made in Greece, its country of origin.

Answer: Wensleydale

The monks came over with William I. They were originally from the Roquefort region of France. They settled in Wensleydale and began to produce cheese. Around the 1300's cows' milk was used and the product changed character. The original cheese was a 'blue', but over time, and because of the use of cow's milk, the cheese that we know today evolved.

In the early 1990's the cheese almost disappeared when Dairy Crest, a subsidiary of the Milk Marketing Board, closed the last dairy and moved production to Lancashire.

A management buyout saved the dairy, and production continues.

Answer: Oxford

Oxford Blue is made exclusively for The Oxford Cheese Company which is based in the city's historic covered market. It was first produced in 1994 and has gained favour all over the World.

Answer: Cambridgeshire

Stilton is a fairly unique cheese in that it has its own 'trademark' Ironically, it cannot be produced in the village of Stilton because it lies in Cambridgeshire, which is now outside of the Protected Designation of Origin.