Mrs Kirkham's Lancashire
Farmhouse Lancashire made using a traditional two day curd method. Open textured, buttery, hint of sharpness.
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Buttery British Kirkham's Lancashire Cheese
Mrs Kirkham’s Lancashire is made by Graham Kirkham at Beesley Farm in Goosnargh, near Preston, using raw milk from the farm’s own herd of around 100 cows. Graham continues a family cheesemaking tradition passed from his grandmother to his mother Ruth, the original Mrs Kirkham, and then to him.
The cheese is still made using the traditional Lancashire method of combining curds made over two days. This technique developed on Lancashire’s small farms, where there was often not enough milk from a single day’s milking to make a whole cheese. The curds are brought together before pressing, helping to create the distinctive light, crumbly texture and fresh, lactic character of traditional Lancashire.
When Ruth and her husband John first began making cheese at Beesley Farm, they had just two presses and produced four 20kg cheeses a day. Originally waxed, the cheeses were later clothbound and buttered, allowing them to mature and develop their characteristic flavour and texture. Today, the Kirkhams make Lancashire in different formats, and we select the smaller wheels of approximately 10kg for our counters.
More than 200 farms were making Lancashire cheese in 1939. Today, the Kirkhams are the last farmhouse producers of raw milk Lancashire, with Graham continuing this remarkable tradition at Beesley Farm.
Lancashire is particularly good for making Welsh Rarebit. Many years of experiment and pleasure suggest that the best recipe calls for four slices of thin buttered and trimmed toast kept warm while four tablespoons of butter are gently melted and half a pound of Lancashire cheese - crumbled between fingers- half a pint of beer, two egg yolks, two tablespoons of mustard, a couple of dashes of Worcestershire sauce and a shake of cayenne and paprika are stirred slowly together until the mixture is completely smooth, poured over the toast and browned under the grill.
"What a joy! The package was carefully prepared with chiller packs. The cheeses were amazing - particularly Mrs Kirkham's Lancashire - a cheese I had never heard of before but absolutely delicious. If you like your cheeses full of flavour and like to try different things along side favourites like Stilton, this is the company to choose. 11 out of 10 from me.”
Cheese weights ordered in multiple quantities are always cut as one large piece, unless otherwise requested in the delivery notes section of checkout
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*Please note Free UK Delivery is only valid for deliveries to the UK mainland and also excludes deliveries to the Scottish Highlands. We do not currently deliver to Northern Ireland and we do not deliver to international locations outside of the UK.
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Chilled overnight cheese delivery: All of our cheese parcels are cooled with re-usable ice packs and insulated with recyclable packaging. We always use an overnight delivery service for UK mainland orders to ensure that your cheese arrives with you in fine condition.
Hand cut & hand wrapped: Our cheese for online orders is hand cut to order and hand wrapped in Paxton & Whitfield wax paper by our expert cheesemongers. Your cheese will have approximately 12 days shelf life on them from the date of despatch.
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Your order will be available for collection for 24 hours. If you are unable to collect it within that time, please contact the shop from where you were meant to be collecting your goods (see Visit Our Shops) to rearrange collection.
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