12 Hospital Street, Nantwich, CW5 5RJ
01270 620799

12 Hospital Street, Nantwich, CW5 5RJ

Burts Baby Blue Goat Cheese

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A brand new blue cheese from Knutsford, Cheshire, made by Claire Burt and Tom Partridge based on the recipe for their now famous Burts Blue cheese which was devised Claire’s kitchen table some 12 years ago and has now become a firm favourite in The Cheese Shop at Nantwich.

Burts Baby Blue Goat Cheese
Burts Baby Blue Goat Cheese

Claire spent many years in the food industry within the field of product development and food nutrition. Before her fondness for a soft and creamy blue cheese led her to practicing and devising a recipe for her now-famous Burts Blue. Having no family farm to draw milk from Claire, had to buy in milk from local farms and pretty quickly she had to develop her cellar into a cheese-making room, before moving to more well suited premises locally.

Each Burts Baby Blue Goat cheese is made with pasteurised goats milk and vegetarian rennet and is formed into small basket shaped mounds, a larger cutting cheese is also available. Penicillium Roqueforti, a natural blue mould, originally found in the caves at Roquefort in France and is added to the milk thus producing the distinctive blueing within the cheese. The magic really begins when each cheese is pierced by hand to allow oxygen to reach the interior, where small pockets of blue form in the creamy paste. As the cheese matures the rich paste or body of the cheese begins to break down, slightly, giving it that open texture making it such a distinctive cheese. The blueing Roqueforti spores also develop on the outside of the cheese giving it that sometimes dusty rind which is quite edible.

Burts Baby Blue Goat has a rich and creamy texture and a smooth, tangy and slightly salty taste that will stay on the tongue for quite some time. It’s best accompanied by a fruit jelly or Quince paste and maybe even a drizzle of local honey on a water biscuit or a Scottish Oatcake.

Based on old-world ideals with a loyalty to our family of local Artisan Cheese producers, we are a small, independently run business dedicated to the time-honoured traditions of the culinary and agricultural world of cheese.

Established recently, Nick Birchall (one of the partners of The Cheese Shop) has worked directly with producers for more than 20 years in order to select cheeses at their peak.

Our small staff of knowledgeable cheesemongers are experts in the field who love teaching through taste. We prioritise education in the art of properly maintaining cheese so that you can be assured of receiving the highest-quality products available.

Email:

info@cheeseshopnantwich.co.uk

Phone:

01270 620799

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