Tintern_(cheese)

Tintern cheese

Tintern cheese

Cheddar-based cheese, incorporating herbs

For other uses, see Tintern (disambiguation).

Tintern is a blended cow's milk Cheddar cheese, utilising Vegetarian rennet it is suitable for lacto-vegetarians.[1] As a blended cheese, it is flavoured with fresh chives and shallots, the recipe was originally developed by Abergavenny Fine Foods in the mid to late 1980s.[2]

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The Abergavenny Fine Foods company sold the recipe and rights of Tintern to Croome Cuisine, effective from 31 December 2020.[3] It is now Available in 150g waxed truckles and 1.5 kg whole wheels and is still sold in its distinctive lime green wax covering.[4]

It takes its name from the village of Tintern on the River Wye, in Monmouthshire, Wales. The monks of Tintern Abbey managed a dozen or so monastic granges in the area, its agricultural hinterland. A grange (from the Latin granum meaning 'grain') was a medieval farm or small estate directly run by a Cistercian abbey with a workforce of lay brothers, or conversi.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    "Mousetrap Cheese Shop sales information". Retrieved 2022-02-22.
  2. [2]
    "Abergavenny Fine Foods Press Release". The Abergavenny Fine Food Company. Retrieved 2022-02-22.
  3. [3]
    "Abergavenny Fine Foods Press Release". The Abergavenny Fine Food Company. Retrieved 2022-02-22.
  4. [4]
    "Croome Cuisine".
  5. [5]
    "Landscapism". 9 November 2016.


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