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TASTY LANCASHIRE The recipe for traditional Lancashire cheese (Creamy & Tasty) is unique in Britain in that it blends the curds from different milkings which creates a cheese with depth of flavour, added complexity and a texture that gives an ideal melting consistency. Tasty Lancashire is our oldest cheese both in heritage terms and the time taken to develop its full flavour. The reputation of fine cheesemaking in Lancashire was largely built upon its success. It is a cheese with a light open texture that’s matured for at least three months and has a “nutty” bite with a creamy buttery finish. TASTY LANCASHIRE Tasty Lancashire is a real favourite for a traditional ploughman’s lunch, as part of a cheese board or in a cheese and onion pie. CHEESE TRAIL

Award winning chef Nigel Haworth’s recipe for Tasty Lancashire Cheese & Garden Herb Risotto (Serves four)

INGREDIENTS • 250g Risotto rice • 50g Chopped shallots • 1 Roasted garlic clove • 100ml White wine • 400ml Chicken or vegetable stock • 50g Tasty Lancashire Cheese • 50g Butter • 20g Mixed fresh fine herbs METHOD 1. Sweat off the chopped shallots in olive oil until they become translucent. 2. Add the white wine and reduce until almost evaporated. Lancashire is the only county to have its name linked 3. Add the rice and slowly pour in the chicken stock about 100ml at a time. with three types of cheese . . . Cook until the rice has almost absorbed all the stock. 4. Season carefully and do not overcook the rice. Creamy, Crumbly & Tasty Lancashire 5. Finish with the butter and grated Lancashire Cheese.

This risotto can vary according to the season we are in, for example a good combination in Inglewhite & Beacon Fell – This walk explores the area around Spring is nettle and wild garlic. Lancashire’s artisan cheesemakers, known as “the Lancashire milk fields”

Thanks to the Lancashire Cheesemakers Association and The Three Fishes, Mitton for use of photography. Butlers Farmhouse Dew-Lay Greenfields Dairy

LANCASHIRE CHEESE MAKERS ASSOCIATION There are 7 Lancashire Cheese Makers all situated within a 10 mile radius in and The Butler family first began making Established in 1957 by George Kenyon The Procter family – Peter, his wife Grace around the Forest of Bowland Area of farmhouse cheese in 1932. Run by the and now run by his sons Neil and John, and their son Steven – combine the cheese- Outstanding Natural Beauty. All 7 cheese third generation of Butlers, the company Dew-Lay has won many accolades for its making expertise from two Lancashire has become one of the best known names fine cheese, including the 2005 Supreme farming families. They produce a wide makers make Lancashire Cheese in the among Lancashire cheese. Based on recipes Champion title in the North West Food range of cheeses from Greenfields Dairy traditional method using Lancashire milk. handed down through the family, Butlers Producer of the Year Awards for their including several distinctly flavoured In most cases they are family businesses Farmhouse Cheeses are made from milk Blue Lancashire. This amazing cheeses including a Lancashire Creamy sourced from local farms and all cheeses cheese has a soft, delicate flavour and with Black Pepper. and are 2nd, 3rd and 4th generation. continue to be made and turned by hand. smooth, creamy texture.

Mrs Kirkhams Leagram Organic Dairy JJ Sandham Ltd Singleton’s Dairy

Mrs Kirkhams have been making cheese Owner Bob Kitching has spent 30 years Founded in 1929 by John James Sandham, With the reputation for producing the on their farm for more than 30 years. making Lancashire Cheese and is now cheese produced by Sandhams stays true strongest tasting of the county’s cheeses, Using only unpasteurised milk from their based near the picturesque village of to its original recipe. Now in the hands of Singleton’s Dairy began making cheese own herd, this unique cheese is made Chipping. A passionate exponent of artisan Chris Sandham, grandson of the company’s on their farm near Beacon Fell over 80 by blending curd from 6 milkings and cheese-making, Bob Kitching produces a founder, cheese is still produced from the years ago. Their range includes the famous maturing in cloth for up to 6 months. Each range of cheese using milk sourced from site where Chris’ great grandfather first Beacon Fell Traditional Lancashire which evening, without fail, Ruth Kirkham still herds run on organic farms close to the built the family house in 1894. JJ Sandham’s has EU protection. Bill Riding is the fourth makes the all-important culture using dairy. Leagram’s range includes all 3 styles range of hand made cheese includes the generation of cheese makers in the family, the heat from the dying embers of the of Lancashire. delicious smoked Lancashire. collecting many major awards including farmhouse kitchen fire. the Queen’s Award for Enterprise.

Start Point: The Green Man, Inglewhite SD 5468 3991 Parking available in roadside lay-bys Distance/Time: 6 miles/3hrs Terrain: Lanes, tracks, fields OS Explorer: OL41 Forest of Bowland and Ribblesdale plus OL286 and Preston Walk Description 1 Walk up to the village green and turn right out of the village along Inglewhite Road.

2 Take the first footpath on your left and cross the field to a gateway. In the distance you’ll see a group of red brick buildings (Higher Barker). Head for these until you reach a track.

3 Follow this track to Higher Barker. 4 Over the stile on your right and out through the yard. As you leave the yard go left 6 through a set of double metal gates and right through another gate. Follow the stream GGreenfireenfi eldeldseld DiaryD Diaryiary to the field corner. 7 5 Over a stile and follow the field path to Church Lane. 4 5 6 Go right, down Church Lane to the T-junction and turn left. 8 7 Greenfields Diary. Take the footpath on your right opposite the dairy and follow the stream until you reach 2 field gates. BButlersutlers DairyDairy 3 8 Go through the wooden gate ahead and pass Bullsnape Hall keeping it on your right. 2 Continue until you reach a stile that takes you down to the woodland near a cottage. 9 Over this stile and pass through the garden/woodland and out along the drive to the road. 10 9 10 Turn right and walk to the Horns Inn crossroads. An excellent opportunity to stop for a break 1 17 or perhaps a little further to The Cottage restaurant/tearoom.

MMrsrs KirkhamsKirkhams 11 Straight across. 16 15 12 Take the first right towards The Cottage. If you’re not stopping, before you reach it take the 14 first footpath on your right. Walk diagonally across two fields until you reach Whinnyclough Brook. Take the path to the right into Whinnyclough Farmyard. 13 13 Go straight through the yard and out onto the golf course. Passing the small wooden hut on 11 your right keep on the track through the golf course and out just to the right of Higher Beesley buildings. 14 Continue straight on towards Lower Beesley. 12 15 Mrs Kirkhams Dairy. After passing the dairy, turn left onto the road until you reach the first footpath on your right that takes you to Turner House Farm.

16 Left along the road until you reach the first bridleway on your right. Take this track past Inglewhite Lodge and out onto Inglewhite Road.

17 Turn left and take the first footpath on your left and follow this over several fields until you exit onto Silk Mill Lane. Turn right to walk back into Inglewhite village and the Green Man for a well earned rest. © Crown Copyright. All rights reserved (100023320) (2006) All rights reserved Copyright. © Crown

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