A new cheese

Not being able to get into town for a week or so, I was reduced to stocking up on cheese in Epsom, from where Lincolnshire Poacher is no longer available.

Quite by chance, I lighted on something called Rutland Red, from Clawson, at the Sainsbury's cheese counter. A variety of Red Leicester. About half of one, weighing around two pounds, for £12 or so, a good deal less than I pay for Lincolnshire Poacher from Neal's Yard Dairy. And it turned out rather well. I would not want it all the time, but for the few days until I get back into town, it will do fine.

PS: BH now tells me that Red Leicester was the cheap cheese used to fill children up when she was a child. While I remember about it being coloured with some foreign dye, a fact confirmed by Bing and now tracked down to reference 3, with the dye mentioned there being derived from the seeds of the annatto, native to the tropical parts of the Americas.

Reference 1: https://www.clawson.co.uk/. Bottom right on the home page gives a better idea than the page devoted to the stuff, where the texture does not look right at all. So the snap above, complete with fake table, comes from a rival outfit, Thomas Hoe.

Reference 2: https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/. Doesn't recognise it at all, from which we deduce that one does not have access to everything online. Can't imagine that the Kiln Lane store, Tier 1 store though it may be, has local purchase authority; that sort of thing went out with the ark.

Reference 3: http://psmv3.blogspot.com/2016/04/beamer.html.