Wensleydale
cow's-milk cheese · Cheese
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Wensleydale is a pale, crumbly cow's-milk cheese from the Yorkshire Dales of northern England — fresh-tasting, mild and faintly sweet, with a clean honeyed, lactic tang and a moist, flaky body that breaks rather than slices. Most often eaten young, it is the classic English cheese-with-fruitcake and has been popularised worldwide by the Wallace and Gromit films.
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Flaky, creamy-white, honeyedFurred, dried hard, rancid
Wrapped wedgeEveryday bestIts PGI allows raw or pasteurised milk, so check the label. If raw, US CDC advises pregnant, over-65 and immunocompromised people to heat it steaming hot.
Cut faceEven colour, the crumb a shade drier at the face
Smell at the cutMilky still, the honeyed note a little muted