Caerphilly
Cheese
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Caerphilly is a hard, crumbly cow's-milk cheese — pale ivory-white, dense yet friable, with a fresh, faintly lemony tang and a clean, lightly saline finish. Named for the town of Caerphilly in south Wales, it began as a fast-maturing cheese for coal miners and is today Wales's best-known traditional cheese.
Picking a good onedrag
Crumbly, lemony, clean cut faceFurred, cracked, rancid
Wrapped wedgeEveryday bestMade from raw or pasteurised milk: check the label. If raw, CDC advises pregnant, over-65 and immunocompromised people to eat it steaming hot.
Cut faceEven colour, the crumb a touch drier
The rindBloom intact, scuffed or dry at the edges
Smell at the cutMilder, the lemon note a little muted