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The Cheese Society

Posted by Unknown Sunday, April 29, 2012 0 comments

Every now and then I visit somewhere really special, which I'd make a considerable detour to go back and visit, and The Cheese Society falls into that category. It is a fantastic shop and just looking at my pictures brings back happy memories and makes me start to drool!

The shop specialises in British Farmhouse cheeses, but there's also some interesting continental cheeses.

I tried this Lincolnshire Poacher cheese:

made by Simon and Tim Jones, in the heart of the Lincolnshire Wolds. It's a medium to strong cheese with rich herbaceous notes, and clearly made with love, and there's also a smoked version.

I tried and enjoyed some good blue cheeses, like Lincoln Blue and Cote Hill Blue:

(there's also a Lincolnshire Red if you're making a cheese Union Jack).

There's a rather fine map of cheeses

which looks rather like Harry Beck's famous map (and I also must mention my favourite - Barry Heck's Anagram Map). Like the Underground maps they've taken some liberties, Appleby's is never above Mrs Kirkhams J!

There's a blackboard, showing some of the highlights:

and another one detailing the top cheeses for the month (proper cheeses change depending on the time of year and animals' diets).

You can't have cheese without some decent bread:

and they also sell Welbeck Artisan breads.

There's also a café, which naturally has a cheesy menu!

There's always a few non-cheesy options, but why would you want that here?

Kate, who is the owner, is well worth having a chat with, and is both knowledgeable and passionate about what they sell. She introduced me to this Belperknolle cheese:

It's made by Herr Glauser in a small dairy just outside Berne in Switzerland. It's a hard, mature cheese which has been rolled in salt, local garlic and pepper. We had some shaved over pasta, it makes an interesting change from parmesan.

If you don't live near Lincoln, they do mail order, including monthly and gift selections. Their Taste of Lincolnshire selection would make a lovely present.

The Cheese Society
1 St Martin's Lane
Lincoln
Lincolnshire
LN2 1HY

Tel: 01522 511003

Web: www.thecheesesociety.co.uk

Lincoln - Elite Meats

Posted by Unknown Wednesday, April 25, 2012 0 comments

One of the first foods I think of that's associated with Lincolnshire is Lincolnshire sausages, and I was told that Kenny Roberts of Elite Meats in Lincoln makes some of the best:

Kenny is a great character, he started work in the shop as a delivery boy when he was 14, then became a manager, and has actually owned the shop for the last 22 years.

His Lincolnshire pork sausage mix is one of the ingredients in these rather fine stuffed mushrooms:

The shop sells Lincoln Red beef from a farmer in Lincoln, their lamb comes from Neaves at Welton and Scaemans at Ingham and their pork comes from Schofields at Owensby and the Ashcrofts at Langworth.

It's a great place for buying local foods like Lincolnshire pork pies, Lincolnshire haslet, Lincolnshire faggots and Lincolnshire stuffed chine:

By contrast they also sell exotic meats (anything from crocodile to water buffalo), which are naturally reared in game reserves and culled humanely.

They also duck eggs, quail eggs and even ostrich eggs, and I nearly forgot, chicken eggs. They also have local cakes, fruit pies, and Lincolnshire plum breads from Welbournes Bakery (see last post) and Modens.

Elite Meats
89 Bailgate
Lincoln
Lincolnshire
LN1 3AR

Tel: 01522 523500

Web: www.elitemeats.co.uk

Lincoln

Posted by Unknown Sunday, April 22, 2012 0 comments

I was in a bit of a hurry when I last visited Lincoln, which is a shame as it's a beautiful city which shouldn't be rushed. My great grandfather lived in Lincoln, so I suppose if he hadn't moved I could have been a Yellowbelly.

It's got a fantastic cathedral and a street called "Steep Hill", which is very aptly named! You can walk down it in 5 minutes and up it in 10 minutes...

I'd hoped to call at Dennetts Ice Cream Parlour:

where they sell their award winning ice-cream (made in Spilsby), but it was just before Easter and they were closed mid-week L.

I didn't have much luck at Imperial Teas:

at 47 Steep Hill, who were also closed when I went past. It's a shame as they offer over four hundred types of tea and coffee throughout the season, and roast all of their coffee in the shop and make their own Earl Grey and flavoured teas. A return visit is clearly required!

Apparently the one thing anyone from Lincoln really misses, if they have to move away from the area, is Curtis of Lincoln:

and their cheese straws! They have a chain of shops in the area (I visited the Bailgate branch near the cathedral) and I have to agree they're cheap and tasty: