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caddymanIn a move inspired1 by the reception at pax_draconis’s and averylaterabbit’s wedding last November, we have dispensed with the traditional wedding cake at our party tomorrow and instead gone for a vast amount of cheese. Not the biggest we could have got, but substantial amounts nonetheless. Several wheels of cheese, of reducing size, one atop the other.
The option we went for after much hemming and hawing is called ‘Smeaton’s Tower’, named for the red-and-white lighthouse on Plymouth Hoe. Our choice was slightly smaller than the one pictured below and does not have the Cornish Brie base – the cheese in the picture is supposed to be able to feed between ninety and a hundred people. We are expecting about sixty, give or take.
The cheeses we have, from the bottom and working up, are:
The large red-waxed cheese at the base (second up on the photo) is a Grandma Singleton’s Lancashire (this comes in two halves which you simply place together). Made by Singleton’s Dairy in Preston for 4 generations now.
Next, a ‘white’ blue cheese: Harbourne Blue, the stunning goats’ milk blue from the blue cheese experts, Ticklemore Dairy. Then a nicely strong Godminster Cheddar comes next, followed by Somerset Camembert.
The smallest red cheese is Red Devil, a ‘Red Leicester’ flavoured with chilli and peppers, and right on the top is a tiny Gevrik goats’ cheese from Cornwall.
I stayed home to take delivery of this yesterday and it has dominated the fridge since it arrived.ellefurtle has been tasked today with obtaining industrial amounts of crackers to go with it…
1I say, ‘inspired’. You may say, ‘shamelessly stolen from’.
http://www.thecheeseshed.com/
pax_draconis’s and averylaterabbit’s wedding last November, we have dispensed with the traditional wedding cake at our party tomorrow and instead gone for a vast amount of cheese. Not the biggest we could have got, but substantial amounts nonetheless. Several wheels of cheese, of reducing size, one atop the other.The option we went for after much hemming and hawing is called ‘Smeaton’s Tower’, named for the red-and-white lighthouse on Plymouth Hoe. Our choice was slightly smaller than the one pictured below and does not have the Cornish Brie base – the cheese in the picture is supposed to be able to feed between ninety and a hundred people. We are expecting about sixty, give or take.
The cheeses we have, from the bottom and working up, are:
The large red-waxed cheese at the base (second up on the photo) is a Grandma Singleton’s Lancashire (this comes in two halves which you simply place together). Made by Singleton’s Dairy in Preston for 4 generations now.
Next, a ‘white’ blue cheese: Harbourne Blue, the stunning goats’ milk blue from the blue cheese experts, Ticklemore Dairy. Then a nicely strong Godminster Cheddar comes next, followed by Somerset Camembert.
The smallest red cheese is Red Devil, a ‘Red Leicester’ flavoured with chilli and peppers, and right on the top is a tiny Gevrik goats’ cheese from Cornwall.
I stayed home to take delivery of this yesterday and it has dominated the fridge since it arrived.
ellefurtle has been tasked today with obtaining industrial amounts of crackers to go with it…1I say, ‘inspired’. You may say, ‘shamelessly stolen from’.
http://www.thecheeseshed.com/
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Date: 2012-05-18 08:47 pm (UTC)Wow! I'm looking forwards to it already
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Date: 2012-05-19 08:51 am (UTC)So looking forward to this evening (not just for the cheese, obviously, but I can't honestly say that it hasn't added to the anticipation).
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