
The IPKat is puzzled. How traditional can this cheese be, and how much of a reputation can it have if the people who make it can't agree on the recipe?

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To my mind, disagreements about the recipe prove that it is traditional. Recipes passed down by word of mouth and modified from time to time either deliberately or through chinese whispers.
ReplyDelete... or cheese whispers?
ReplyDelete...or too much cheese in the ears?
ReplyDeleteThe term "Red Leicester" is not the traditional name for the cheese - it's only existed since the 50s, when dyes were once more allowed to be added to cheese (following a ban on dyes in order to enable a "standard" cheese to be made during wartime rationing).
ReplyDeleteBut the use of orange colouring was taken from other areas, since it was held that orange cheese indicated better quality. So the colour isn't really part of the GI application anyway, one suspects...