Blue Stilton, the ‘King of Cheese’, has a history that is so well-documented it is unneccesary to repeat it here, save to say that it now has the status of a ‘protected designation of origin’, which means that only cheese made in Leicestershire, Derbyshire or Nottinghamshire, to strictly enforced standards, can be called Stilton.
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Traditional ‘Farmhouse’ Red Leicester is a superb cheese, slightly flaky and full of nutty flavours. It isn't the red stuff that's like rubber sold so often, by supermarkets, as Red Leicester cheese.
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It was the manufacture of Stilton Cheese that led to the production of the famous Melton Mowbray Pork Pie. Whey, a by-product of Stilton Cheese making, led to pork production in the area and subsequently to the manufacture of Pork Pies.
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The mind starts to 'boggle' when you read about The Quorn Bacon Roll Day. What on earth's a Quorn Bacon Roll? Some form of bacon butty? Even worse, a bacon roll made from that tasteless meat subsitute that, presumably in jest, someone named after the Capital of Hunting? It's none of these, it's glorious traditional savoury suet pudding with bacon, onion and herbs.
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