Derby cheese

Derby cheese varieties include Sage Derby, shown with wax coating.

Derby cheese is a mild, semi-firm British cow's milk cheese made in Derbyshire with a smooth, mellow texture and a buttery flavour. Like most of the traditional British hard cheeses it was produced exclusively on farms and was typically sold at a younger age than its more famous cousins Cheddar and Cheshire.^[1] It has a pale, golden orange interior with a natural or waxed rind and ripens at between one and six months. In many respects Derby is similar to Cheddar in taste and texture, but with a softer body (it doesn’t go through the Cheddaring process) and slightly higher moisture content. When young it is springy and mild but as it matures subtle sweet flavours develop and the texture becomes firmer.^[1]

Its claim to fame is that the first creamery in the UK was set up by a group of farmers in the village of Longford, Derbyshire – the farmers having agreed to pool their milk and have the cheese made on a larger scale using techniques that had been developed in the US.^[1]

Varieties

The most common variety available is Sage Derby, a herb-flavoured Derby that has the traditional light ivory/yellow colour with blended light green areas of sage.

Notes

1 2 3 "British Cheese Board - Derby". British Cheese Board website. Retrieved 2012-04-01.

British cheeses

England	Applewood Beacon Fell Traditional Lancashire Beenleigh Blue Bowland Buxton Blue Cheddar Cheshire Chevington Coquetdale Cornish Blue Cornish Brie Cornish Yarg Derby Dorset Blue Vinney Dovedale Fine Fettle Yorkshire Gevrik Gloucester Harbourne Blue Keltic Gold Lancashire Lincolnshire Poacher Little Derby Newport 1665 Norbury Blue Red Leicester Red Windsor Sage Derby Shropshire Blue Stichelton Stilton Stinking Bishop Suffolk Gold Sussex Slipcote Swaledale Tesyn Waterloo Wensleydale Wrekin White

Scotland	Bonchester Caboc Crowdie Dunlop Isle of Mull Cheddar Lanark Blue

Wales	Caerphilly Pantysgawn Tintern Y Fenni

Northern Ireland	Coleraine Cheddar

Manufacturers & brands	Carmarthenshire Cheese Company Cathedral City Coleraine Davidstow Cheddar Ilchester Cheese Company Neal's Yard Dairy Pilgrims Choice Yeo Valley Organic

See also	List of English cheeses

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