The Cheese With No Name

Welcome to our new, unnamed, washed rind cheese. We wash the rind of this cheese in salt water every week.
This encourages the growth of bacteria called brevibacterium linens It is orange and golden and can smell pungent.
The paste is gentler with more subtle flavours.
This soft cheese oozes as it ripens more.
The sticky rind has a rich savoury flavour.

We developed this cheese in 2020. Pete Humphreys, who I consider to be the best cheesemaker in the world (his cheeses have won that award many times) had a lot of free time on his hands at that time and offered to come and make cheese with us. As you know, that was also a time when the milkround was massively expanding- our duty to supply when supermarkets couldn’t and when people weren’t allowed out. I didn’t really have time to work with Pete but it was too good of an opportunity to turn down. Pete joined us every Tuesday and made cheese with us. He helped us to make cheeses that we had yearned to make. He came to us with a recipe for St Paulin. This is a rind washed, sticky stinky orange cheese- a bit like Stinking Bishop. I sorted the cultures out and in our dairy he was able to create this exciting cheese. Gareth now makes it. Penny ripens it. She washes the surface with salt water every week. This encourages the growth of the sticky orange rind. Inside, the cheese paste ripens and oozes. It’s an exciting cheese.

The next hurdle after making a fabulous cheese is naming it… and it is a hurdle we haven’t climbed yet. In naming my children we would wait  for the registrar to write to us to say they were going to fine us but for cheese, there is no registrar so The Cheese with No Name, has remained, The Cheese with No Name for two years. As it was based on a St Paulin recipe and Pete helped us to develop this cheese, I want to call the cheese St Pete, but Chad won’t let me (maybe he wants the cheese to be called St Chad)?

If this cheese sounds exciting, add The Cheese With No Name to your next order.

Size: 200 g, 750 g, 1.5 kg, 3 kg

Allergen Information: Contains Milk

All of our cheese is pasteurised, vegetarian and made from our cows milk. Please refrigerate on arrival.

Nutrition per 100g:

Energy: 1207 kJ, 291 kcal

Fat: 28.2g (of which saturates: 14,6g)

Carbohydrate: <0.5g (of which sugars <0.5g)

Protein:: 18.4g

Salt: 1.62g