Farmhouse Cheeses of Ireland by Anderson, Glynn -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover About the Authors Title page Contents Acknowledgements 1 Introduction

How to use this book Cheesemaking in Ireland today

Cheesy statistics

What is cheese?

What is farmhouse cheese? Other dairy products and their relation to cheese

Butter Cream Buttermilk Yoghurt

Other farmhouse dairy producers in Ireland

How cheese is made

Cheese classification Variations in cheesemaking

Surface-ripened cheeses Washed-rind cheeses White-mould surface-ripened cheeses Thermophilic cheeses Blue cheeses Cheddar

How to make cheese in your kitchen What you need

Milk Starter Rennet Salt Flavourings Sourcing supplies

Making cheese on a larger scale

History of cheese

History of cheese and cheesemaking in Ireland Folklore, myth and legends of Irish cheese and dairy products A few cheese proverbs and sayings

How to get the most from your cheese

Buying cheese

Supermarkets and multiples Delicatessens Farmers’ markets Farm shops Sheridans Cheesemongers

Cheese tips

Cheese administration

Cheese naming in Europe CÁIS Slow Food Irish Raw Milk Presidium IOFGA (Irish Organic Farmers and Growers Association)

2 Cheesemakers and Their Cheeses

Ardagh Castle Goats Cheese

Ardrahan Farmhouse Cheese

Ardrahan Duhallow

Ardsallagh Cheese

Ardsallagh Soft Goats Cheese Ardsallagh Hard Goats Cheese

Bay Lough Cheese

Béal Organic Cheese

Raw Milk Handmade Mature Béal Organic Cheese Pasteurised Handmade Mature Béal Organic Cheddar

Bellingham Blue Cheese (Glyde Farm Produce)

Bellingham Blue Boyne Valley Blue

Bluebell Falls Goats Cheese

Cygnus Orion Pegasus

Boyne Pastures Burren Gold (Aillwee Cave Farm Shop)

Burren Gold

Carlow Cheese

Carlow Edam

Carrigaline Farmhouse Cheese

Carrigaline

Carrigbyrne Farmhouse Cheese Co.

St Killian St Brendan Brie Emerald Irish Brie

Carrowholly Cheese Co.

Carrowholly Carrowholly Old Russet

Cashel Blue Cheese (J & L Grubb)

Cashel Blue Crozier Blue

Castlefarm Cheese

Castlefarm Natural and Shamrock

Castlemary Goat Cheese The Causeway Cheese Company

Ballybradden, Ballyknock, Castlequarter and Coolkeeran

Cléire Goats (Gabhair Chléire)

Cléire Goats Cottage Cheese

Clonmore Cheese

Clonmore Shandrum

Coolattin

Coolattin Cheddar

Coolea Farmhouse Cheese (Cáis Cúil Aodha)

Coolea and Coolea Matured

Cooleeney

Chulchoill Cooleeney Darú Dúnbarra Gleann Óir Gortnamona Maighean Tipperary Brie

Corleggy Cheese

Corleggy Creeny Drumlin

Cratloe Hills Sheep’s Cheese

Cratloe Hills Gold

Derreenaclaurig Farmhouse Cheese

Derreenaclaurig

Desmond and Gabriel Cheese

Desmond Gabriel

Dingle Farmhouse Cheese Dingle Peninsula Cheese

Beenoskee Dilliskus Dingle Cream Cheese Dingle Goat Cheese Dingle Truffle Cheese Kilcummin

Durrus Farmhouse Cheese

Durrus Durrus Óg

Fermoy Natural Cheese Co.

St Gall St Brigid Cáis Dubh Cáis Rua Hibernia Emerald Other Fermoy cheeses

Ballyhooly Blue Corkcotta St Brigid Beag

Fivemiletown Creamery

Ballyblue Ballybrie Ballyoak Boilíe Goats Cheese and Cheese Pearls Cooneen O’Reillys Oakwood

Gleann Gabhra

Tara Bán

Glebe Brethan Cheese (Tiernan Family Farm)

Glebe Brethan

Glenilen Farm

Glenilen Low-Fat Cream Cheese

Gubbeen Farmhouse Products

Gubbeen and Smoked Gubbeen

Hegarty’s Farmhouse Cheddar (Whitechurch Foods)

Hegarty’s Farmhouse Cheddar

Kellys’ Organic Products – Moon Shine Dairy Farm

Grace and Una Moon Shine Organic Emmental

Kilbeg Dairy Delights

Kilbeg Quark and Fat-Free Quark Kilbeg Cream Cheese and Kilbeg Mascarpone

Killeen Farmhouse Cheese

Killeen Goat Gouda Killeen Cow Gouda

Kilshanny Cheese

Kilshanny

Knockalara Farmhouse Cheese

Knockalara Knockalara Mature Knockalara Hard Other Knockalara cheeses

Comeragh Dromana Cappagh

Knockanore Farmhouse Cheese

Knockanore Plain White and Red Knockanore Oakwood Smoked

Knockatee Natural Dairy

Kerry Blue Knockatee Cheddar Knockatee Gouda

Knockdrinna Farmhouse Cheese

Knockdrinna Snow Knockdrinna Gold Knockdrinna Meadow Lavistown Original Lavistown Knockdrinna Brined Goat

Milleens Cheese

Milleens

Millhouse Cheese

Millhouse Sheep’s Cheese

Mossfield Organic Farm

Mossfield Organic Cheese

Mount Callan Farmhouse Cheese

Mount Callan

Old MacDonnell’s Farm Orchard Cottage Dairy (was Magpie Cottage Dairy) St Tola (Inagh Farmhouse Cheese)

St Tola Log (Fresh and Mature) and St Tola Original St Tola Crottin St Tola Divine St Tola Hard St Tola Greek Style

Sunview Goats (Kilmichael Soft Goats’ Cheese)

Kilmichael Soft Goats’ Cheese

Toonsbridge Dairy Triskel Cheese

Triskel Dew Drop Triskel Pyramid Triskel Gwenned

Tullynascreena Goats’ Cheese Wicklow Farmhouse Cheese

Wicklow Blue Wicklow Baun Wicklow Gold Wicklow Goats Log Wicklow Goats Gouda

Wilma’s Killorglin Farmhouse Cheese Yeats Country Foods

Yeats Country Organic Soft Cheese

3 Other Irish cheesemakers

Abbey Cheese Co. (Paddy Jack Cheese) Bandon Vale Fine Cheese Co. Cahill’s Cheese JOD – Old Irish Creamery Oisín Farmhouse Cheese Round Tower Farmhouse Cheese

4 Irish farmhouse cheese recipes

Cooking with cheese Guidelines for cooking with cheese Derry Clarke’s carpaccio of beef with grated Gabriel Cheese and watercress salad, horseradish mayonnaise Denis Cotter’s strawberry, watercress and Knockalara Sheep’s Cheese salad with honey-raspberry dressing and spiced walnut crumb Darina Allen’s salad of Crozier Blue Cheese with char-grilled pears and spiced candied nuts Potato and Bellingham Blue Cheese soup Roasted pepper with Ardrahan Cheese Deep-fried St Killian Carrigaline thatched pork chops Mount Callan Cheese and leek soufflé Glebe Brethan fondue Durrus/Milleens tartiflette Aligot (with Fermoy St Gall) Darina Allen’s Ardsallagh Goats Cheese croquettes with rocket leaves, roast pepper and tapenade oil Indian potatoes topped with Castlefarm Shamrock Cheese Claire Nash’s Ardsallagh Goats Cheese, golden beetroot and roasted onion frittata Denis Cotter’s roast aubergine parcels of Coolea Cheese, black kale and hazelnuts with warm cherry tomato and caper salsa Clodagh McKenna’s baked Gubbeen Cheese with thyme and rosemary Derry Clarke’s boudin of Clonakilty black pudding with Cashel Blue Cheese and cider sorbet, crisp cured bacon and stout jus Derry Clarke’s Ardagh Cheese in an herb crust, butternut squash, honey dressing Derry Clarke’s Carrigbyrne Cheese pithiviers Ross Lewis’s Ardsallagh Goats Cheese, red pepper basquaise, artichoke, tomato confit, black olive oil Catherine Fulvio’s Ballyknocken walnut and Wicklow Blue Cheese bruschetta Aoife Cox’s Irish potato ‘risotto’ with Desmond Cheese Aoife Cox’s tricoloured Irish vegetable terrine (with St Gall Cheese) Aoife Cox’s Raclette au St Gall Rachel Allen’s baked eggs with creamy kale (with Glebe Brethan Cheese) Kilbeg fruit trifle Glenilen Farm lemon cheesecake Murphys’ Bluebell Falls Goats Cheese ice cream Murphys’ Wicklow Blue Cheese and caramelised shallot ice cream Pashka (with Kilmichael Soft Goats’ Cheese)

Appendices

Appendix 1: Irish farmhouse cheeses Appendix 2: Farmhouse cheesemaker statistics Appendix 3: Distributors

Traditional Cheese Company Horgan’s Delicatessen Pallas Foods La Rousse Foods Sheridans Cheesemongers

Appendix 4: Where to find Irish farmhouse cheese

Irish artisanal cheese outside Ireland

Appendix 5: Non-farmhouse cheesemaking in Ireland

Glossary References Useful websites Bibliography Dedication Copyright

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