This is Red Leciester with a strong, powerful flavour, and if it needs any further recommendation, comes highly recommended by Clarissa Dickson Wright on BBC One's The One Show!
- Cows Milk Cheese
- NON-Vegetarian 
- Un-Pasteurised Cheese
More about Sparkenhoe Aged Leceister ... Leicester cheese was made on Sparkenhoe Farm by Mr George Chapman in 1745. He was quoted by Robert Bakewell, a famous breeder of the time, to have had ‘one of the best herds of longhorns known anywhere’.
These included his prize winning bulls ‘Old Sparkenhoe’ and the ‘Earl of Upton.’ The Chapmans ceased cheese production in 1875 due to the fact there was no money to be made from cheese production. The last time Leicester cheese was made on a farm in Leicestershire was in the 1950s by a Mr Shepherd of Bagworth. He was a dairy farmer and was said to have made the finest Red Leicester Cheese and supplied all the local butchers and cheese shops. Over 50 years on, this age old art has been revived by Leicestershire Handmade Cheese Company making the aptly named ‘Sparkenhoe’ Leicester.
Product Origin; Leicestershire
Pungency; Mild
Style; Hard Cheese
Packaging; Whole Cheese; Plastic Overwrap
Cut Cheeses; Wax Paper
Care Details; Keep chilled
Dimensions Guide; Whole Cheese; 34cm Ø x 9cm
Cut Cheese; varies by weight
Best Before; Whole Cheese; 21 days
Cut Cheese; enjoy within 4 days of receipt
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