Ashdown Foresters

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Ashdown Foresters is a cow's milk hard cheese made in England. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

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143 grams of Ashdown Foresters Smoked cheese.

Overview

It was created at the High Weald Dairy in Horsted Keynes, West Sussex. [1] [2] [4] [5] It is named after Ashdown Forest. [1] [5] It contains pasteurized cow's milk and vegetable rennet. [3] [5] It takes eight hours to make and three months to mature. [1] [2] [4] [5] It has a sweet, nutty flavour. [5]

It won the gold medal at the World Cheese Awards in 2008. [3] It also won the gold medal at the British Cheese Awards in 2008 and 2009. [1] [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 High Weald Dairy
  2. 1 2 3 BritishCheese.com
  3. 1 2 3 4 "British Fine Foods". Archived from the original on 2013-02-01. Retrieved 2013-03-27.
  4. 1 2 3 Gourmet Britain
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Jenny Linford, Great British Cheeses, Dorling Kindersley, 2008, p. 100
  6. Guy McDonald, England, New Holland Publishers, 2004, p. 46